No idea about American Catholic hospitals, but I have read that in El Salvador, where abortion is totally prohibited by law, they actually have to wait with the woman in the hospital until the fallopian tube ruptures before removing it. Naturally putting the woman's life at risk. Because, you see, it would kill the…

Your husband can think what he wants; you're absolutely right to be careful. Have you read Pushed or Born in the USA? The way judges are so cavalier about taking pregnant women's rights away is appalling and terrifying.

Why should she be forced to wait for it to happen naturally if it's inevitable and she is in terrible pain and wants the ordeal over with? Especially when, even with monitoring, things could go south in a hurry, risking her fertility or even her life? There is no good reason in the world.

To take that tooth analogy one step further - people have died from issues resulting from an infected, rotted tooth. There was a case I remember reading about involving a young boy who lacked any kind of dental care, I think the infection spread to the bone and caused sepsis or something? And obviously the vast vast…

That will simply force those workers who won't be able to pay their monthly bills if they miss a day of work to come in and try to pretend not to be sick. Not really helping the public health problem there.

Me too brah. Me too. Well said.

After a breast reduction my nipples got more sensitive and stayed that way. I used to do crazy things to them like using nipple clamps. NOT ANYMORE, nope nope nope. I had the pedicle type reduction where they don't sever the nipple from the breast though, but keep it attached by what amounts to a rope of inner boob…

This. Such a good point.

True, but you kind of sink or swim together as a married couple. If one of you is all squander-y and goes into debt, and the other saves and saves, will the saver retire early to Florida leaving the spendthrift alone to die deeply in debt? I'm exaggerating, but that kind of thing.

Cool perspective, thank you.

Yikes, that sounds bad. No waxing then!

What chemical exfoliation products do you recommend for in-between waxings, for those of us who are very prone to ingrown hairs?

Laser treatments don't leave any bruising, but when I had it done, my boyfriend at the time (now my husband) remarked that it looked like my crotch had been hit with the pellet blast of a shotgun. Many, many tiny red marks.

I think the wax is formulated in such a way that it only clings to hair, not skin. But I could be making that up.

I asked my husband to give me a Brazilian last month, because I'm 6.5 months along and can't tweeze without a clear line of sight (my usual hair-removal method), hate the feel of shaved pubes growing back in, and don't have a spare $100-$120 to go get waxed in a salon and tip properly. He was a great sport and did an…

I never got one in the first place. I feel good about that choice.

They pretty much push it in as far as it will go, which is not nearly as far as the wand is long. What hurts is when they put slightly sideways pressure on it to be able to view your ovaries and whatnot. The discomfort wasn't quite as bad when the pressure was straight on at the cervix, but it wasn't what I would call…

This! There is such good fanfic out there, with plot and good characterization and far far less stupidity, and THESE are what make it through to a general audience? As a writer and reader of fic, it shames me.

Amazingly shitty, isn't it? It says a lot that when a server is obviously stoned beyond any hope of competence and yet the management sends him/her out to work anyway. I guess it's too hard to get someone else in on short notice. Still atrociously terrible though.

Also, does North Dakota have a stand your ground law? Because an embryo inside me is a threat to my health and life.