The human reproductive system in general is utterly stupid and fucked up. We barely have it together. The reason women have periods? We’re in an evolutionary arms race with fetuses where they try to burrow further into the uterine lining and leech more resources off the mom, while the mom frantically tries to outpace…

And half the comments on this post prove my point.

I am so astounded by your privilege, that I’m struggling to come up with a cogent reply through my rage. I am an HR consultant, I do this for a fucking living, and I can promise you, there aren’t a plethora of programs that everyone magically qualifies for. There also isn’t a ton of assistance in navigating the maze…

This is really condescending and oversimplified and completely unhelpful. I’m a producer in Los Angeles with insurance and my out of pocket for my twins was still almost ten thousand dollars. Maybe that’s not a lot of money to you but I sure did everything by the books and it’s a lot of money to me to be expected to…

I’m going to suppress my anger and assume you’re coming at this with the aim of helping people, so I’ll just point out that we don’t need to make things so needlessly complicated. This is a single mother and the father if not out of the picture, doesn’t seem too supportive about the whole thing. So right there she…

Don’t have a baby if you can’t afford it!

Also don’t have an abortion cuz it’s evil.

I have nothing but admiration for the way Stormy Daniels has comported herself during all this. She’s been articulate and dignified.

The problem is they do much of the health care in cities, surviving on donations, their non-profit status and whatever gov money they get. Cities like Cinicinatti, Washington DC and others are almost entirely dependent on Catholic charities for their poor. Its a really fucked up sinister plot to proselytize. And it…

I have a recommendation, in the spirit of “given lemons, make lemonade”:

That would help the anti-choice agenda, too, though. What they are after with these kinds of laws (aside from controlling women’s bodies and especially our sexuality) is establishing fetal personhood, because if they can chip away at doing that, then they can eventually outlaw abortion completely and permanently. Even…

A friend of mine had repeated problems with pregnancy losses and stillbirths. A profoundly religious person, who with her husband believed this was some sort of grace from God, she had funerals for every one of them, one as early as 3 months. It’s strange, but it was every bit their right to make that choice. I lost a…

not knowing it was part of the biggest Catholic health system in the world

“Not being an organ donor is against my family’s religion.” How you like that, Catholic hospital?

Also, note the psychological fuckery of this:

Do Catholic hospitals still do this with amputated limbs? I know a great-great uncle of mine had to say that his foot was going to be buried in the family plot before they would cut it off. It was (and still is) an extremely strange thing to ask a person how they want various tissues to be buried. (I totally…

What it really is to remind women that they only exist for one reason - to make babies, and that you should feel awful and guilty any time you’re not fulfilling that purpose.

This entire article is horrifying (I can’t even imagine having to deal with forced “burial” of a miscarriage while in the hospital undergoing a medical procedure to deal with said miscarriage) but this:

“WE HAT BIG GOVERNMENT! WE WANT GOVERNMENT OUT OF OUR LIVES!! WELL....WE WANT IT IN YOUR LIFE!!”

Don’t touch us without our consent. Listen to our voices. We’re not second class citizens who need old white men with fake piety telling us what we can and cannot do with our bodies. Which you’re not allowed to touch without our consent. Hearing me, legislators? #commonsense #respect

In New York, two years ago, my hospital gave me the choice of: