The “blood pressure” noted by the article is, in fact, the spectrum of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. These include pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, HELLP syndrome, chronic hypertension with super-imposed preeclampsia etc. The 1960 material referenced above gathers this under “toxemias of pregnancy”. Despite valiant…

I believe her....... she’s the epitome of selfishness.  Shallow as a puddle.

So delighted and proud to see the women of Ireland reclaim their personal autonomy.

With respect Candy_pants.... knee deep or ‘gee’ deep? If the latter... god bless!

What does it say about the adult population that we’re ok with passing the buck to our kids? Abdicating our responsibility to keep them safe? We’d better step up and have their backs!!

Super-dee-duper!

See: vaccination, childhood: implementation

Collin’s threaded the needle very effectively.

Keep tugging on it like that and I expect it will come off in your hand.

Mother of an 8th Grader (also a 9th Grader). They are being taught to be researchers and competent ones too! The 9th Grader just knocked out a huge project on Human Trafficking in Russia for her class at school and the 8th Grader has been hot on her heels with current social justice topics. She’s in GSA…

It’s likely that there will be an effective vaccine against Zika pretty soon.... not so with the others...

To be fair, the senate vote was along party lines... there are only nine democrats in the AL senate. So that “popularity contest” had been lost at the ballot box some time back.

Such a crock.....

So true.

Also, girl pig? See: mammary glands.

My daughter, her best friend and I were in Raleigh NC. Estimates were 17 K marchers. We had a blast despite a very overcast day. Mellow crowd and a single Trump supporter.

So very “On the Beach” (Neville Shute).

The higher rule “woman MUST be perfect” still applies.

Move the women down a couple of slots.........

Well, that’s part of the issue.