Thank you sharing about the young woman who won the Republican seat. That is such a good example of what the future of the Democratic party could look like in 2018 if we start now.

#SavetheTrashPandas is something that needs to be better known - thank you for sharing this!

You are an excellent forum member and user of the internet in general. Thank you so much - for sharing the info and showing us how it’s done.

I have a feeling the Harry Potter universe would be an exciting sandbox for all authors (obviously the fanfic world thought so).

My father was a total asshole when he was younger. My enemy list is long but I remain vigilant. I showed up to laugh at a dude he got in a bar fight with when he got in a car accident.

Yeah, if your father ever wronged anyone you can never care about that person. Because it’s the year 1100 and we all have our blood vendettas to maintain.

Yeah, ya can’t boycott a show you don’t even watch.

Boycotting his show won’t make one iota of a difference. If you really want to do something, contact his advertisers and tell them that you will not purchase their products anymore as long as they support the Dr Phil show. Contact an advocacy group for mental health and alert them to this...

Yeah, I feel like taking a shower after watching that. Mental health treatment should not be televised. How is that even something that needs to be said, particularly to a guy who at one point received actual medical training?

Oprah also helped legitimize Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaxx crusade.

My mom watches Dr. Oz all the time like she did Oprah. She gives me medical advice whenever I’m sick. I told her about his validity and she’s very much, “nah.”

I wish Oprah had also not exploited Lindsay Lohan. I’m really tired of Oprah being treated like a patron saint of America.

I really do not understand the cult of Oprah. She’s done some good things (like gave my favorite homeless shelter a million dollars) but she’s also introduced lots of crap to the world.

I really wish that Oprah had never brought Dr.’s Phil & Oz out of the grays.

You can also acknowledge that this is fucked up and wrong and not exclusively place the blame on the woman because you don’t know what her story is. This is a failure of society, not one person. At the bare minimum it shows how our mental health system is not good enough. next we can acknowledge that if she was…

I normally really respect and admire your opinions and it actually saddens me a bit to see this type of reply from you.

But the burden put on women like her seeking ANY abortion is so great that she could have grown increasingly desperate. The cost and difficulty in obtaining an abortion at 8 weeks could have been so great that it may have removed her choice in the matter. Maybe she thought she could save up the money to afford one if…

I just choose not to judge this woman when we don’t have the facts. You, like every other Forced Birther wants to make this a black and white issue. If you only look at it that way you’re going to see many more of these botched abortion attempts.

Some of this is not ideas. Here is what Tennessee law makes anyone seeking an abortion go through:

Considering that 96% of Tennessee counties do not have clinics, and women in Tennessee have to play by these restrictive rules, I think it’s more than safe to say she had trouble accessing care.