I think your last line is spot on. I spend a few hours a week at a high-kill shelter (high-kill because no funding and a lot of strays, unfortunately) and honestly, I don't care if people who adopt those dogs are going to take them home and feed them Ol' Roy. It's better than euthanizing the poor thing in the shelter.

Haha, The Cook etc. is one of my favorite movies. I guess I am blessed with the ability to enjoy art films and movies that feature Will Smith punching aliens in the face alike. ;)

What commercially-available male hormonal birth control method exists in the US currently?

Would you have a problem with it still if she offered an alternate opportunity for people whose faith prevented them from participating?

That is so awful.

Counterpoint: they can't be feisty for very long because they can't breathe and sometimes when they sneeze their eyeballs pop out of their head.

I have never seen Days of Thunder because I am allergic to Tom Cruise.

Well of course it's predictable, it's a cheesy '90s action flick. That's part of the charm. No surprises, just fun. Sorry, you can go join Mark in the "people who have no souls" corner.

I regret to inform you that you have no soul.

Mark, normally I love you but in this instance I have to disagree. Independence Day is a masterpiece of cheesy '90s action movies, and pugs are monstrosities that should not exist. You have this one backwards.

What always amazes me about those laws is that pre-abortion counseling is kind of part of patient care. It's called informed consent. You get "counseled" before any major medical procedure about your options and any risks involved. I had my abortion done in a state that didn't have counseling laws (at least at the…

Well you know she's a good Christian woman who would never need an abortion unlike those sluts and whores who can't keep their legs together and have no respect for the sanctity of life. Even if the pregnancy put her life at risk or the fetus had severe birth defects, well, that's just God's plan and she'll trust in…

I know, right? I'm a grown-ass woman and I scare myself silly with them, and I don't even believe in ghosts anymore (but I definitely did when I was a kid too). I would have been a wreck if I had that kind of access when I was little.

I was just walking along, minding my own business when I saw that Planned Parenthood was having a half-price sale! I had been planning on keeping the pregnancy, but some deals are just too good to pass up, you know?

To me, this story is basically an updated version of a Ouija board scary story, and those have been freaking people out for decades. And before that it was mediums and automatic writing.

I don't actually believe in ghosts at all but I love scary stories and goddamn does my house "feel" haunted after I read one. I love it.

I do search and rescue, and I had a guy try to cop a feel once after my (male) teammate and I had located him in the woods. He pretended to be (or maybe actually was?) dizzy so I let him put his arm around me as we got him over to a rock so he could sit with his head between his legs, and he went in for it.…

No worries, and thanks for the explanation. FWIW, I took that poster's comments to be about the governmental response. It does sound like MA has less to deal with in terms of legislators trying to restrict access to abortions than a lot of other states.

It'll always be the 1950s in Creepy Misogynist World.

Don't you know? Everyone secretly thinks exactly like Ben Stein, they just don't admit it because POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD. Well, anyone who is really a person anyway (so women, people of color, and poor people need not apply).