Reproductive “support” - if such a thing exists, starting some years ago. Plus all kinds of other support, ditto.

Many people, in most societies for much of human history, had slaves or were slaves. Some people even went from being slaves to owning them. But we have, collectively, got a bit better than that.

And continuing to hold a dead fetus in utero is a pretty good way of getting blood poisoning, toxic shock and all the other horrors. It nearly killed my mother when I was about 5 - no fetal monitors or ultrasounds then, so the doctor thought she’d miscarried. My Mum tended to believe doctors, even though she’d only…

Five miscarriages and my only answer to “What did you do?” (apart from the one given above related to the ear) was “I had sex with my husband, conceived children we wanted, but found out that biology didn’t want us to have them.”

I don’t know why they don’t just mummify the fetal remains and make the woman wear them chained around their necks. Can’t help feeling that’s what they’d like to do.

“Trump supporter Susan DeLemus (Update: who we’ve learned is a New Hampshire State Representative)“ says she has “Never been involved in politics, never had an interest in any of it” but she knows THE PRESIDENT is lying?

I used to wear a salwar kameez until it fell to bits, though I still have pieces sewn into a quilt I made. It was given to me by some Sikh friends and I wore it to their daughter’s wedding. But it was generic - it had no specific sacred meaning to their culture: it was just a piece of beautiful, comfortable and quite…