That’s quite the October Surprise.

Whats that sound? The world's tiniest violin, you say? Interesting. Interesting.

Excellent points. I doubt any “life at conception” nut has realized that a fertilized egg can flush out of the body during the biological act of mensuration. Would the carrier be a criminal? How would the law know? Would menses itself be criminalized? How to enforce such criminalization?

the group–and by default Barrett who signed her name– believes that “the discarding of unused or frozen embryos created in the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process ought to be criminalized, a view that is considered to be extreme even within the anti-abortion movement.”

They should make the whole Congress out of Elizabeths Warren and Katies Porter.

Good afternoon, friends, it’s time to check in with Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who I’m sure have learned their lesson about owning themselves with transparently stupid and illegal stunts that .... oh

You act like this is something that only celebrities do. Its really, really common. A good friend of mine had a premature baby who lived only a few hours, and she knew beforehand it would. She had her three babies, husband, and the grandparents there and there were professional photos taken and shared to social media.

What you said is beautiful xx The photo of Chrissy Teigen crying completely undid me - that is an image of raw grief. I also thought it was incredibly brave of her to share it and the other photos. I have no doubt they helped people who have been through this.

Why do we do that???? It’s so true, at least for women.

I don’t know about you, but I have never in my entire life had anything to say to a grieving parent except, “I’m sorry for your loss.”

“God punishing you for supporting abortion...”

If more people would take heed to this pearl of wisdom, what a wonderful world it would be...

Also, that maybe it’ll stop people from saying all sorts of stupid shit to people when they hear about a pregnancy loss.

“Hooo0oooo boooy. I saw some of the comments. Things like, “Karma!” and “God punishing you for supporting abortion...”

You should have stopped at “I’m not saying that hating on someone’s pain is cool”.

The one thing that helped me get over my overwhelming sense of guilt and shame over losing three pregnancies was actually reading an article about celebrities who had lost pregnancies. These were people who had access to the best medical care, a private chef to cook all the “right” foods, personal trainers to help…

Maybe the part of the problem with American culture is that we are constantly asking the victims of bad behavior to change their behavior instead of the perpetrators. I have truly never experienced a culture like this and I am a child of immigrants and lived lots of places.

I always cringe at blaming people for their own abuse because a social media platform outgrew itself before making a plan to handle abuse of its platform by the masses. Instagram (as now owned by FB) has no incentive to make itself good for people, and abuse should not be taken as a given. It’s what’s allowed because…

Yeah...no. Where it’s coming from is from people being assholes, full stop. If people’s “buttons are pushed” by “internet celebrities” or whatever you want to call them, it’s pretty easy to avoid. Just don’t follow them. Yeah, you’ll see some posts, but again, easy solution: Don’t click on them. And even if you do…

A lot of hospitals offer photography in situations like this, so its not necessarily a glamourous photoshoot. I’ve known non-famous people who post these on their social media accounts to essentially say, “they existed in this world. they will be remembered.” It wasn’t thirsty or fake for them to do it, and I think…