This is a bill intended to set legal precedent regarding fetal personhood — specifically, to treat embryos as people. Everything else is convenient, controversial smokescreen.

As a response to all the people saying that you shouldn’t be able to freeze eggs, that’s straight up not how fertility treatment works. Embryos are frozen for a number of reasons (not ready to be transferred, genetic testing is being done, there are multiple embryos from a cycle). Given that most people are paying…

Not end of problem. Human eggs react badly to being frozen. Much more so than sperm and embryos.

I appreciate the premise of this article and think this is a thorny question that needs discussion. HOWEVER, to make it sound like the Missouri legislature is trying to do anything reasoable on this issue is to totally miss the forest for the trees. This bill is about enshrining fetal personhood into law. That’s the…

Fuck those judges who decide the contracts aren’t applicable. Because that’s the easiest way to settle a dispute: to do it before it happens. Fuck them sideways.

I appreciated this when I saw it shared this weekend. Single working mom of 3 - my husband died 3 years ago so there’s no dad to take the kids on weekends or to pick up the slack. It’s incredibly hard and sometimes I just am desperate for someone - anyone - to actually understand. There’s no fix or real help that…

If they ever wind up as fighter pilots their call signs will be “Dave” and “Pete”

I’m choosing to believe he is a big fan of Battlestar Galactica.

“Here, puppy! Come, Boomer, come! Gooooood puppy!”

Can we talk about the name “Boomer Robert Phelps” please?

Only in Monadmoney Vally.

You equating BLM with Nazism says all there is to know about you.

Yes. Mainly because that’s completely and obviously different.

A friend of mine was dying of cancer. Slowly. She used to be an accountant and decided that what she’d do with her time waiting for chemo treatments was go over her itemized hospital/medical bills to catch any mistakes.

We have shitty insurance and a $4,000 deductible. So, knowing we’d have to pay that much out of pocket, we opened up a credit card with a 50,000 miles sign up bonus if we spent $4,000 in the first 3 months and at least got a couple round trip tickets out of the deal. Oh, and we got a baby. Hooray! :)

That is basically the opposite of what happened at my wife’s work. She’s on their insurance (it was cheaper and same coverage) and after a merger (where they were all assured that they’d maintain their benefits) her dickbag CEO noted that monthly premiums were up $150, there were riders related to ‘certain items’…

I had a completely uncomplicated vaginal birth and the initial bill was for over $40,000. I have to mention this any time the subject comes up because WTF? How is this even possible? With insurance it was also ~$2,500 out of pocket.

Pro-tip for the uninsured/underinsured mamas-to-be: After you open that first envelope with a bill for eleventy kabillion dollars, like I did after my pre-eclampsia stay, my c-section, and our NICU stay, call the hospital’s billing office and request an itemized bill. Then, contest everything on that itemized bill…

This is where the glory of universal healthcare really makes itself apparent. I have no idea how much was spent on my births and I don’t care! Wahooo! Wish everyone were in this boat with me, especially my American friends who have received hospital bills for their stillborn babies. :/

My friend needed an emergency c-section at 27 weeks and her son was in the NICU for 3 months. When she got the final “bill” it was for over $1,000,000....her insurance covered it all.