I think she was just trying to explain the procedure was the same; I don’t think she intended to hurt people. I understand hating the medical speak though. Like how the OB I saw loved to talk about “products of conception”. Oh, you mean pieces of what should have been my child? :|

I’m sorry for your losses and so happy you finally got what you’ve been searching for. I’m glad you wrote this, I think more people should be talking about miscarriage. I had a miscarriage in January and it was quite a mindfuck. I had no idea how many friends and relatives had had one until I started talking about it.

Agreed. That pissed me off a little. I did elect to have a D&C at 12 weeks. And I had to have one while having an ectopic pregnancy. It can be distressing for a woman in that position to hear they had an abortion if they choose to have the D&C. I am very pro-choice but I really wanted those pregnancies.

Okay, maybe I’m just an overly rational voice of common sense here, BUT...

I hear you. I do. It sounds so shallow to say it out loud, but I really MISS it when I could charm someone into giving me something, or when I could flip my long hair and get attention. I can’t do that anymore, and I wish someone had pulled me aside when I was 16 and said “enjoy this while it lasts, because it won’t,…

Sometimes I get angry or sad that I got through so much early in life because I was pretty and could get away with things. I could have tried harder or done better in school or gotten a better job or hell, anything, but I never thought I needed to. Now I realize I did, I should have done those things because it does…

as a former dancer / pretty girl... being a mom in an SUV with three kids and realizing I was in public wearing sweatpants and a baggy shirt was a real come to jesus moment. I’ve always gotten attention for the way I look and realizing I cannot flirt my way through life has been a sobering realization. At 33 I cannot…

I have it on good authority from the youth of today that consent isn’t bae, it’s on fleek.

This is showing my age, but my response to this was “Ohhhhh so THAT’S what BAE is.”

It’s a shame “consent is something normal, non-rapey people do” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.

I don’t know if this is true for all states (I am an ignorant Canuck) but a friend of mine from Nevada recently shared a pic with our Facebook group from her local buy and sell - an AK-47. Just for sale on facebook. So I thought she shared it because of the shocking nature of the thing for sale. Nope. There was a…

I appreciate your sentiment, but I think the “American mindset” is so fucked up (e.g. the glorification of violence and warfare, the libertarian impulse, centrist politics, etc.) that it will take generations (at least) for attitudes on guns to change enough to make real policy chance feasible.

Sandy Hook, Gabby Giffords, Charleston, that guy in Texas that took out 5+ kids a week or so ago....I mean, yah, it’s hard to think that anything will ever change. We’ve had Presidents killed and several assassination attempts over the years, but gun laws are only getting laxer. I don’t even know what to say anymore.…

I’m losing hope that we can change the gun culture bullshit. I really am. I mean, Sandy Hook didn’t change anything. SANDY. HOOK.

I think the OP just meant that motive does not matter in relation to the debate over gun control.

It’s important to acknowledge extremism. Extremism will always exist and exists in all countries. Great conversations. Must be had.

Seriously, if the slaughter of little kids in their elementary school can’t force change (and in fact creates a cry for “MORE GUNS! MORE GUNS!”) than nothing will.

I have to disagree, respectfully. For example, when motives are things like extreme politicial or religious beliefs, I think its important to expose exactly what that type of mentality reaps. Out of the horror of the shooting in Charleston, a much-needed conversation happened about “Southern pride” and ”heritage.”…

LIVE! Killed LIVE and on the air! We now have people being MURDERED on live TV. We have CHILDREN being murdered in their classrooms. Nothing gets done. We, as a country, through our inaction have said this is A-OKAY. Just another day in the beautiful United States! Let freedom ring and god bless America and her guns!

I personally look forward to the day my dance moves make my kid want to die.