I get it! I have implants also, and lip filler, etc. But I didn’t think that looking like a whole different person was the point. I want to look like me, albeit with pouty lips and boobs that look 10x better than my own.

“Whether Jane Roe is a “good person” or a con artist who spent her life spouting lines penned by fame-seeking people on whatever side was offering money and attention, she should have been able to have her abortion.”

I just read how late in life she “converted”, I thought it was much earlier in her life. But that no one called that out lends weight to people judging without knowing.

Roe v. Wade is also the case used in law school that explains the concept of “capable of repetition yet evading review.” The state actually argued that the case was moot because Roe was no longer pregnant when it finally made it to hearing. However, the Supreme Court ruled that because the harm was capable of…

I’ll take issue that “America” owes her anything. She was a nominal plaintiff, and there would have been another one very shortly thereafter, same as the other nominal plaintiffs in landmark cases. Instead, those who directly profited off depicting her or her story owe her some debt. Further, you could make the…

Usually the liberal folks filing Supreme Court lawsuits are well-financed, though. The lawyers representing McCorvey had money and represented interests with money. 

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This seems to happen a lot. Rich people spend money on hunting animals, and people call them awful, but A) most of those same people aren’t whining about the mass slaughter of food animals because they’re not as cool/cute, and B) they don’t think about how much conservation money the hunts bring in. I’m willing to let…

Most zoos are not capable of supporting this level of conservation work. I work closely with the zoo community, and most zoos cannot contribute to conservation because they’re desperately trying to pay their staff and keep the animals fed. They have nothing leftover to give. There are a handful of zoos that are able…

Came here to say this. Yeah it’d be great if taxes sponsored conservation, but we live in a flawed world, and you gotta make those dollars to save those animals. This is why trophy hunts for conservation money are a thing. This is why zoos are a thing.

Nonprofit arts worker here. We are fucked. 

In Vietnam, even 20 years ago when I worked there, face masks were common for women.

My friend told me to follow Martha about a year ago and I’m glad I have. She’s TOTALLY the drunk grandma posting. Not everything is polished so when she does do a Magazine-style post I’m not as annoyed as the “lifestyle brand” IG posts. 

“Shutting up about our own misfortune" is terrible advice for processing grief. To move past the pain of loss, we need to talk about it and feel heard and loved, not shamed and told to suck it up because other people have it worse.

Im sorry for what you’re going through. I’m also shocked and disappointed at the lack of empathy in these comments. And what’s with all the commenters using their own belief that choosing to conceive right now is a bad choice as the basis for supporting denial of time-sensitive treatment? I thought as feminists we…

I fully understand and support the idea of stopping fertility treatments during this pandemic, but I’m quite surprised by the vitriol in the comment section. And yet there’s been a lot of joking about all the “quarantine babies” that will pop out 9 months from now. Will those parents face the same outrage for their…

I understand the frustration of your wants and plans being put on hold for something so far out of everyone’s control. this is the most extreme large scale thing that’s every happened in our lifetimes. I think for many people that is really hard to put into perspective, especially when we’re so focused on ourselves…

Hello- just want to chime in that not all fertility treatment related pregnancies are high risk. I think the rate of high risk is pretty similar to “spontaneous” pregnancies. Generally once you “graduate” to a midwife or OB, there is no difference in the way you are treated (unless it was an IVF baby, which gets a…

What a lot of people don’t understand about IVF is that by far the greatest emotional toll comes from waiting, not from the shots or the procedures or anything else. These things take time.

If medical resources become stretched so thin that fertility services must be curtailed, you will not have to figure it out, yourself. Your clinic, or some other official source will disseminate that information. No reason, there, to give up your quest.