All the information is out there if they cared to look. Randomly I saw a a screen shot of a comment where some conservative was saying conservatives can’t win rhetorical arguments because all the data was on the side of liberals. So it’s not like they don’t know they can’t win with facts and logic, they just don’t…

Canada had a hero, Dr. Henry Morgentaler, who performed abortions when it was illegal because he was a humanist and felt it was part of his duties as a doctor. He was repeatedly charged criminally in the 1970s and the juries acquitted him. He’d survived concentration camps and wasn’t going to let a bit of jail scare…

When I was younger and way more naive, I used to think: “If only these people understood how desperate some women can be, and how terrible the lengths they’ll go to, they wouldn’t be so against abortion.” Now, of course, I know that they genuinely don’t give a shit. But thank you, hero doctor, both for continuing to…

Lol. “Sanctity of life” they say. And yet we know God’s worst representatives on earth would never allow a minor thing like ideological coherence get in the way of violent christian fascism.

I don’t understand. They’re pro life... surely they’d... they’d never...

My thoughts exactly. At first I was worried about his being sued--read the article and now I’m worried for his life. A true stand up hero.

Yep—this is evidence of decency at play. Also it’s significant that this is a doctor who remembers the time before legal abortion. He’s seen the consequences.

I want to send alllll the conservative so-0called “pro-lifers” (self righteous uninformed assholes) to live in an alternate universe where they are destitute women in the 50's. Let them see exactly why we carry signs with coat hangers and demand access to abortion as a part of women’s healthcare.

Exactly. It’s softcore White Christian Sharia down there. Any of those nutters could decide they need to wage a “holy war”. Aside from his legal defense, I hope he has safeguards for his security.

White Christian Supremacy never cared about the children. Only about making life hell on earth for women they deem whorish.

What a mensch. godspeed doctor.

A real act of bravery to do this in a place like Texasistan. 

Yeah, I thought he probably killed her, from just reading about the case — but after watching the police video above and the way he was pallin’-around with those cops, he strikes me as one of those charming sociopath types, and now I’m SURE he did it.  

Your last sentence is exactly why I got divorced. The way I phrased it at the time was “If I’m doing everything by myself, then why shouldn’t I just be by myself”.

Seriously. Lots of “it would never happen to me!” here. And no acknowledgment that pre-kids domestic labor is a drop in the bucket compared to what happens after kids. He may be doing exactly what he did before kids, but it’s like a dribble compared to the onslaught of drudgery afteward.

I’m in my late 30s and deleted my Facebook 3 years ago and Instagram in January of this year. Never had Twitter, Snapchat, or TikTok. I’d long battled feelings of anxiety, low self-worth, high stress that I wasn’t keeping up with my peers, etc., that I could easily trace to the apps. I would catch myself in the middle…

My daughter said to me, in reference to her father, “Don’t worry mom, I won’t marry a man who is useless.”

So many thoughts on this one and no shot in hell at stringing them together in a coherent fashion.

Exactly! A) A woman should never marry a man who hasn’t lived on his own before. B) A woman should not marry a man she hasn’t lived with. C) A woman shouldn’t expect a man’s ability to take care of himself to improve after marriage.

That’s the thing. They do, but while we’re talking about equality, it’s not the same thing.