@Stellanova: Yes indeed, and Twitter follower. Not-so-regular commenter though.

@Stellanova: yay the anti-room!

@Hey Girl Hey: if you read the attached articles, you'll see that no doctor could/would tell her the effects of the treatment she'd already had on the foetus (she'd had cancer treatment while pregnant before she knew), nor on the course of her cancer if she decided to stop treatment to continue the pregnancy.

@siobh: *crosses fingers*

@florabore: Labour are the one major party who actually sometimes bother their arses about this. *crosses fingers*

Small steps, small steps.

@buggie10: exactly. That's why finding an effective screening method would be such a good thing.

@heymisslayla: screening is not necessarily risk-free (it hasn't been with breast cancer, for instance) and with those figures it's not likely to be cost-effective either.

@buggie10: AFAIK there is no screening programme for women without a family history.

They taste like I imagine poop tastes if you added copious amounts of artificial sweetener. No.

It's true we can't say that such horrific abuse is an inevitable result of polygamy (or rather, polygyny in this instance): but it's not hard to see that the way women in these communities are commodities which must be controlled makes abuse more likely and more tolerated once it does occur.

@Eresbel: oof. Damn the motion of the ocean...

@Penny: Mine too. Mind you, he's usually right about the cramps. Nausea, not so much...

@Ipomoea: I just saw that on Twitter.

Thank you!

@CJ4: I was seriously suprised at how cold it was there in December. Brrr. Also hope she looks under her car before she drives off!

@boatdock.bearcat: It's a Doberman! Let it have its ears!

If they can run those, then I also demand graphic birth videos, videos of infants dying from diseases incompatible with life, and the hardships of families who have more children than they can afford to support.

@Lisabel (ne:Dagnabbit): I just made them, nobody uses them very much... (yet! I can hope!).

@Lisabel (ne:Dagnabbit): yeah, we need a #corrections or #typos tag.