Maybe, but of course, if God didn’t want you to have an abortion, he wouldn’t have made sure you have the funds to fly to another country to get one.

Oh god, that one. There are so many that one isn’t even in the first five I thought of when I left my comment.

Handling the social issues of the day very badly is classic X Files though, so I guess they hit their marks for nostalgia?

Yeah, as good as the Bechdel test is, I’m a bigger fan of the sexy lamp test for exactly the reason you state.

I always think of this.

My husband thought I was exaggerating my problem with needles until I had our son. I had to be induced, which means an IV, and after 20 hours (hadn’t been able to lay down in 12 hours or sit for 6), I asked for the epidural I had been trying to avoid because of my phobia. It took them two tries. After seeing me shake…

I don’t usually know who any of these people are outside of these articles, so when I was rewatching the X Files a few months back and looking at some of the memorable guest stars on Wikipedia, I was delighted to find out Doug Hutchinson is Eugene Tooms. It is wonderful context for how creepy he is.

Yeah, this seems like a way to sell an awful lot more outfits to well meaning parents.

Generally, you don’t skip to surrogacy without trying quite a few other things first and getting a lot of bad news. She was referencing the whole, likely long and painful journey it took to make this baby.

I think a lot of why these stories get told over others is that white people are mostly willing to consider race at all if at the end they can pat themselves on the back and say, “Look at how far we’ve come! I’m so proud all that is over and we don’t have to consider race anymore!”

Really? I thought she was terrible in Mad Men. I thought she was an untalented product of nepotism until I saw her in Girls. Still can’t see her as Smith though.

And those allowances are, “We’re going to fuck around with writing letters before we can save you from death or disability.” It’s just phenomenal all around.

Even in places with decent laws, you couldn’t get me through the doors of a Catholic hospital unless I was unconscious.

I had a miscarriage with an assist from the same drug used in medical abortions last month. The whole thing made me so much more pro choice.

But we have the best health care system in the world because you can’t be turned away from the emergency room or something, silly goose.

Exactly. We’ll never really know what happened to this woman because of the sheriff’s office’s zeal to put this guy away for good.

Of course, but as a population, most women are trying to prevent pregnancies or have been sterilized by their late 30's because most of us don’t have large families any more. I saw a statistic not long ago that 2014 had the highest birth rate on record for American women in their 40's.... since the early 1970's. It…

A kid who watched The Godfather Part II as a guidebook might.

I’m so sorry for your loss. I also miscarried a wanted pregnancy in December.

Switch practices if they make you feel that way.