I have bpd and that sounds like an interesting book. Do you remember the title by chance?

I’m from Iowa and this is very true. Republican voters voted for this yet even in The Des Moines Register poll done earlier this year 66% of Republicans surveyed saying they like Planned Parenthood. A full 77% of all people surveyed approved of Planned Parenthood. Our lawmakers didn’t care. I went to our town halls…

My friend had to have her sons through IVF. Initially her doctor only put her on infertility treatments and they couldn’t figure out why things were not progressing better since she was ovulating just fine. Over a year later they finally had her husband tested. He virtually makes no viable sperm. Though she did…

It’s the more of sponsoring 20 week abortion bans kind of anti-choice asshole.

Oh man... I’ve only read the first Parable but I read it immediately after the election and i swear I couldn’t sleep for weeks!

It’s been very difficult for me to with him. I haven’t seen him in person since but I haven’t cut him out quite yet. Instead I’ve become the avenging harpy on every piece of bullshit he posts to Facebook. It’s pissing him off and it makes me feel better. I know I’ll get tired of it but right now this is the way I’m…

A male friend I’ve known for 17 years actually said the very same thing to my face about a month ago. He said once an egg was fertilized my body was no longer mine. He knows my history. He knows how that affects me since I was raped and post pregnancy (unrelated instances) and still he continued foaming at the mouth…

I love Octavia Butler but I haven’t read these. Looks like I need to. Thanks for recommendation!

I agree with you. Dubya wasn’t a great president, he made lots of mistakes and bad choices, people died from them. I protested against him and the war in Iraq.

I’m seeing this as well! One friend said, mockingly, “Oh so now you believe in conspiracy theories.”

Ignore me. just got fully informed by another more knowledgeable commenter. Darn Law and order for giving me this idea!

My city of 25k had one employer subsidized daycare. It was at our hospital. It was open for 1st, 2nd and 3rd shifts to accommodate the shifts of the hospital employees. It was a private business though, one that also had two other locations, one at the community college for students and a regular daycare center. It…

Was this an “in general” question or did this article specifically strike you as not “relevant?”

Thank you! the people in your area will very much appreciate it! I always got giddy and excited when I got a package of diapers or laundry detergent at the food pantry because someone had thought to donate.

In elementary school during the election season for the 1996 presidential race, my badass at teacher had us draw out own versions of the famous painting American Gothic using American heroes. I chose to draw the Clintons because Hillary seemed like a champion, Bill I had a low key crush on and I adored their cat…

I wonder if that’s because men are using this issue pound their chests and say how much they love women and girls and need to protect them. Meanwhile, women are like, what the fuck ever dudes... you attempt to restrict our reproductive decisions, you enable rape culture, you rape us, you beat us, you make excuses for…

Grew up in the Midwest. Same deal.

Medicaid covered my stays but these were behavioral and psychiatric units in hospitals. I’ve been in three different ones and they were all vastly different. The first one, that I described, should be shut down. They were helping no one. The second one the entire culture of the staff and hospital were different. I saw…

Ugh! That sounds horrible! I was lucky to not interact at all with men aside from the 15 year old boy who was just as scared and humiliated as I was. I’m sorry that a place that should be there to help people only hurt you more. I’ve actually been in three psych wards and they were all incredibly different. I did have…

YES.