Well the transition team DID request a list of names of folks who worked on climate change legislation and Congress passed legislation that gives them authority to reduce individual government worker salaries to $1/year, effectively firing them. The EPA freeze/blackout are worth watching for these reasons.

Being pregnant twice in one year I have had a lot of time to contemplate this. If men were the sole sex that could gestate and birth new life there would be statues of pregnant men and men in labor in every town. Hell, on every street corner!

If the technology got so advanced that you could do fertilization in a pregnancy chamber or even remove a fetus (or blastocyst or whatever level of development you want) and put it in said chamber and have it develop healthily, they’d still ban it for being “unnatural”. See the reaction to designer babies or cloning.

And women into criminals.

I was always told life begins at 40. God damn liars.

particularly as we’ll see more and more abortion restrictions based on motivated readings of prenatal technologies.

Ultrasound as a cultural phenomenon rather than a scientific tool is a really important concept to understand. My mother, who had her first two kids in the mid-70s (no ultrasound) and second batch of kids in the 80s (ultrasound), told me that she was strongly pro-choice until she saw her first ultrasound. After that,…

Certainly far from all. And still fewer would have time to know AND make a decision to end the pregnancy AND find and attend a suitable provider to fulfill her choice to terminate.

To clarify this (and emphasize how horrible it is) at 5 weeks pregnant, that means you had sex 3 weeks ago, because they count from your last period. So, essentially, you’re 2 weeks pregnant the second you have the sex that impregnates you. The earliest you can possibly know at home that you’re pregnant is 4 weeks.

Even if more can survive than previously, it’s still a very low number. Pushing it to 20 weeks is more about shortening the window in which you find many of the genetic disorders. The ultrasound for those is generally done at 18-20 weeks leaving very little time to do anything about potential life threatening…

Very few. Don’t forget that pregnancy weeks start at your last period. You’re really only 3 weeks at 5 wks gestation. So mostly the ones who are aware that they need to test because they’re trying or knew a condom broke etc etc. even then the earliest you can get a test to work is really 4 weeks so try to get an…

Anti-abortion activists have also used the argument of technology advances to argue for that restriction, pointing out that advances in care for preterm infants means that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe that 24-weeks was the earliest an infant could survive outside of the womb, is no longer applicable.

I just want to shout out to Planned Parenthood for making my abortion decision as painless as possible.

As a mom of a daughter now, I often think about the day I had an abortion and they no way made me feel uncomfortable about my decision. They identified it as cells, and not as a person. They comforted me, and…

And they came into being in response to egregiously harmful practices by business. Somebody didn’t just go “Hey Let’s create an agency to monitor the environment because we hate business and want to make it difficult for them.” They did it because businesses were dumping their waste into our air and water and it was…

I work for the EPA, and its chaos.

Given that the remaining tatters of the website keeps referencing work at DNC conventions and both Obama inaugurations, this may be the most epic trolling in history!

I’m thinking the photographer did it himself? I wrote an email to Ellie. Could be a great scoop courtesy of I like big cheese. Surprised I can’t find any other publication who checked the photo yet- I guess everyone assumes the photo itself is of the women’s march as it’s clearly not of Trump’s inauguration.

HOLY SHIT!

God, I so hope that the date mix-up was intentional.