Thanks so much for this, Lindy. I lost my dad when I was 10...losing a parent is one of life's greatest hardships...it's been 17 years and I still cry about it...and though cancer hasn't claimed the life of any of my loved ones, it's come pretty close...I now have 3 melanoma survivors in my family...I feel like cancer…

Thanks so much for sharing this! I've thought about donating my eggs before and wondered why you get paid so much for it. Now I know why! The experience is very stressful on your body, but you're allowing someone the opportunity to make use of the eggs you're not using. I'm glad you described the experience in such…

"Making a person" —> she probably didn't just mean the literal definition. Raising an adopted child also qualifies as "making a person."

This saying made me cry...

It's sad that Remley felt so powerless against these regulations that she gave up... :-(

I agree! Akin's comments are salient in our minds right now and this headline is thus misleading.

Thank you so much for this well-written article about this recurring and incredibly important issue.

I greatly appreciate the free and steady supply of birth control you provide via your articles. I sense a movement in the air in which parents such as you have taken to the Internet to speak honestly about the not-so-glamorous aspects of raising children. For the sake of social desirability, most parents speak only…

If only all sexual assaults/rapes occurred on planes...then maybe the perps would actually be punished for their crimes...However, I am glad to hear that justice was served in this case...