I guess the only ethical way I could see it happening is if they did so voluntarily for free. Like organ donation.

I don’t know. Maybe? Optionally punting the labor (pun intended) to another person is exploitative and gross. If they want to put themselves through the torture of IVF, then go at it. But renting a uterus is getting less defensible in this country, considering what has happened to women’s rights in the past two years,…

“Kim told me about that [surrogacy] as well…I’m using the same doctor, Dr Huang, who’s the best and he has a concierge team that deals with everything and interviews the people [the surrogate] to make sure that they’re healthy.”

I loved everything about this episode. Except.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see Jezebel stop hating Anne Hathaway.

It is 100% giving the man control of her healthcare decisions, because there are choices to make even if she’s staying pregnant, and now he’s going to have a financial stake in them. He’ll know if she’s missing appointments; he’ll know if she’s choosing not to get certain screenings done; he’ll know if she’s not…

I have a friend who previously worked in intelligence. I was shocked to find out he still paid for porn, and it turned out it was because sometimes he’d be “audited” and he didn’t want to get caught having downloaded copyrighted material illegally. Adorable! If only the rest of people in power had the same fear of…

Bullshit. Voting for Clinton or Biden v Trump doesn’t not make you culpable for this.

The father or second parent of an unborn child shall be liable to provide financial coverage for medically necessary and appropriate prenatal care received by the mother of the child during her pregnancy, unless the parties have made legally binding arrangements to the contrary. The amount of the financial…

Yup. I’m also guessing they’re looking to give fathers a monetary stake in the baby to open the door so daddies can sue over “property” rights. 

This also seems like something the patriarchy would make so they can claim ownership over someone else.

Yeah this also will result in more “fathers” killing pregnant women, which btw is already the leading cause of death for pregnant women https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/homicide-leading-cause-of-death-for-pregnant-women-in-u-s/#:~:text=October%2021%2C%202022%20%E2%80%93%20Women%20in,Chan%20School%20of…

I kept hearing that when I was pregnant, and you know what? For me, it was not true. Pregnancy was much, much harder for me than having babies was. I was terrified when, was a young pregnant woman, I read I would actually miss being pregnant because having a baby is so hard. It didn’t happen.

Coming here to say the same thing. It sounds mostly that Thinx was guilty of bad marketing, by claiming to be healthy and sustainable, and being like every other company. Virtually none of the things we put in/on our bodies are regulated. To your point, PFAs are everywhere, and nearly impossible to avoid. We’re likely…

Product safety shouldn’t be like playing whack a mole and suing companies. Pads and tampons have also been found to contain pfas. They are almost impossible to avoid. They’re in shampoo, food wrappers, teflon pans and our water supply. The cycle of vilifying one company even if its deserved rather than actually…

Comparing human women to the cattle that we use and abuse for to exploit their biological reproductive functions for our own gain is probably the most honest thing a Republican has said about abortion in decades.

The takeaways here.

Over 1500 executions in 50 years, and now murder is completely gone from our society. The death penalty sure is a strong deterrent!

I don’t think it was the show that ruined the family, it was probably the stress and pressure of two polar opposites having six more kids. THEN the stress and pressure of choosing to film all that.The money was helpful, but having eight kids is no small thing. I can only imagine what that did to the kids themselves.

Chaps are inherently, and by definition, assless. Why must they always be described as “assless chaps”?!!!