I am trying not to be super salty about this because any improvement would be good but for fuck’s sake. It is REALLY HARD for me to be rooting for better paternity policies for men (especially in other countries) when the maternity policies here in the US are still a goddamn crapshoot. I know it’s not the point of the…

It’s like society wants you to have children and then it punishes you for having children and at the same time hates you if you don’t want to have children.

There is physical damage done to the mother by the pregnancy. Pregnancies come with risk of complications and death. Abortion can be considered self-defense. What about the right to life of the mother?

Do you think that every person who doesn’t donate a kidney to the 2 million people who need one to live is a murderer? No? Why not? Because you understand, intuitively, that no one has the obligation to use their body to provide life support to someone else. It’s called autonomy.

Hmm.... Perhaps we can leave late-term abortions open as an option to all women and work much harder to de-stigmatize early-term abortions. Better educate everyone on the subject. Make early-term abortions more affordable. Make it a tax deducti........ eh, maybe not that? I don’t know. Anyway.... Subsidize it. And…

I don’t really need to do much weighing. One is a grown up woman. The other is a fetus, without identity or subjectivity. No contest unless you are a misogynist.

“It would be unethical to allow women to have elective abortions at 32 weeks and beyond.” I get that. Killing is inherently ethically complicated. Killing a fetus that is, essentially, no different than a baby that has been born, is unethical, in its way.

Preach. Language matters. They aren’t “pro-life”, and fetuses aren’t “pre-born babies” for fuck sake.

Please stop using their language. “Pre-born babies” are fetuses. Use the correct term.

I’ve worked in clinics that provide abortions for years. We regularly see women who picket our clinics, who are ABSOLUTELY SURE they want their abortion but are also ABSOLUTELY SURE yours should be illegal. They often come alone and we hold their hands when requested because they do not have a support person. They’re…

Re the photo. I can’t understand how another woman could be against abortion. I just can’t. How can you not intuitively know that your physical autonomy, comfort and freedom of movement is more important than an embryo or fetus. I accept that pre-born babies are alive, and human. But how can you not understand the…

Sorry, I meant to add my addendum to that asterisk. So:

It comes down to power imbalances. If you have two intellectually disabled people of approximately equal capacity and experience*, they can consent with each other. However, if, to use an extremely common example, a caregiver of average or above average intelligence uses their position to take advantage of someone who…

I know you *shouldn’t* laugh at misandry on principle but I cackled uncontrollably at this.

but for now, they are still being born?

Guys would just lie about being on it to get bareback.

My feeling is that Vanessa Trump’s filing for divorce while her father-in-law is still in office is a definitive omen that the walls are crumbling around them. Were Mueller not closing in, there isn’t a chance she would have divorced her husband during the term. Whether this is a ploy by one or both remains to be seen.

Running this through my Trump Brand Empty-Words-To-Bullshit-Translate-O-Matic:

Well actually, test scores vis-à-vis the rest of the world have not gone up

I see Ru’s initial point in a way. At what point are you not doing drag anymore because you are a woman? But I also understand everyone else.