Mayberry and Sanders need to read a little more about the use of ultrasound - that fetuses find IT obnoxious and flee from it, making those 4D pictures cruel and unusual punishment.

You should report that Dr and receptionist to the national organization both for the HIPAA violation and the judgement you sensed. PP is not made up of angels (and I have started to shift my financial support to the independent abortion providers), but the vast majority of staff strives to be the warm, welcoming folks…

I tell my PP patients that anyone who is tall enough to see over the counter can get free condoms (apologies to responsible, sexually active little people)

You can’t imagine the kindness and compassion of the PP nurse practitioners that I work with, as they burn off genital warts or culture a herpes breakout and quickly script acyclovir. And we host a vasectomy king once every two months who fixes up the guys in about ten minutes, welcomes their partners to be there for…

For sure! One of my managers in my reproductive health clinic would never have an abortion, has a family with birth kids, partners’ birth kids, and partners’ parntners’ birth kids, and yet she is the tenderest, most supportive person to the spectrum of women who are terminating pregnancies.

You can tune your tv(s) to alternative programming- I recommend LOGO but anything escapist will do.

I agree. While I love PP (to the extent of happily working for them after 2 years of volunteer escorting ) I’m a big fan of The Center For Reproductive Rights which is successfully targeting TRAP laws up to the Supreme Court.

That’s exactly how my clinic handles “products of conception” - packaged separately, labeled “Incinerate Only”, placed in a freezer for that exclusive purpose until picked up by a medical waste company. So a respectful process does exist. The problem comes when zealots go after the medical waste companies for doing…

Ah, my IUD failed too, 40 years ago, and I tell young women today how boring my abortion was, how boring 95% of them are, and that the emotion that I felt was overwhelming relief.

I just tried to go to the Emmitt Till Memory Project website to donate for the repair of the marker, but their server is overwhelmed. I hope that’s a good sign.

So you think “Alt-Right” people and Gamergate people are somehow mutually exclusive?”

Nancy O’Dell’s response is my current working definition of “classy”

Do you really need that much gravitas to sell underpants?

I have worked in “zoo world” as a veterinary technician. For her to have been attacked means that she or someone else made a fatal mistake in knowing which gates or shift doors were open between the day exhibit and night quarters. I grieve her death and sorrow for the survivors.

Totally agree. We’ve already got “The Yearling”. Hell, we’ve got “Because of Winn Dixie” which name-checks a local supermarket chain while managing to be about a stray dog. Both infinitely more suitable for that age group. Can’t wait for the bowdlerized Carl Hiassen.

Forget the presidency; glitter bombing Randall Terry is Nobel Prize-worthy.

Hard to know what would have happened had Uber been around on 9/11.

As a clinic escort myself, I have to agree with the Red River clinic escort that Severson’s actions are having mixed results. I am committed to non- engagement with protesters, so I admit that I enjoy witnessing a bit of the old counter-protesting, but anything that discomfits patients is a no-no. Misguided chivalry…

You are a very good person to be able to separate the fact of your existence from that of your birth mother’s suffering. May you both live long and prosper.

I’m old enough to remember Northeastern Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller, Clifford Case and Jacob Javits. Mitt Romney’s father George was also of that fiscally conservative, socially compassionate ilk. I remember that a lot of legislation was passed with bipartisan sponsorship. I truly mourn the loss of civility in…