Yet another reason why comprehensive sex ed which includes a lot of content on the importance of consent, and about abuse and rape, in schools is vital. But RWNJ would shit bricks about that and never allow it.

Holy crap - a teacher?!? That is terrible. A man like that should NOT be in any classroom (well, I am assuming it was a male teacher, I dunno). I hope this teacher got bounced right the hell out of the classroom.

Except, there are no 'shots' that can cause sterilization - at best, only temporary birth control that lasts for a few weeks or months. To be sterilized, only way to do it is the ol' fashioned way of getting the tubes surgically tied. Surprise, surprise the RC bishops are too hopelessly ignorant of modern medicine…

Because America totally perpetrated genocide against the Irish and still occupy Ireland. Oh, wait.......

"Different strokes for different folks" is true enough. However, my husband was able to do this cuz he grew up as a farm boy - his family had some sheep, couple of horses. Anyway, every lambing season some (most?) of the ewes needed a bit of help. A veterinary obstetrician, if you will. So he already had…

My hubby went beyond watching, he participated. Our doc let my husband actually catch our daughter as I pushed her out. Was pretty awesome.

I've heard stories before about how some docs prefer C section because they are scheduled (vaginal deliveries often happen in the dead of night) and also that they bring more $ to the hospital. But your friend, dear God I can't even imagine. A C section when the anesthesia wasn't working? No fucking wonder she has…

I am having a pedant moment but...shouldn't that be 'vulva' not 'vagina'? I mean, I always thought the word vulva referred to all of the external female genitalia (labia majora and minora, clitoris, etc) and vagina was basically the tube (from vaginal entrance to the cervix). Did I miss something in sex ed class a…

At which point he makes sure to hire gay dudes who are unlikely to marry women who would ever be inconveniently pregnant, and even more inconveniently die. Ugh, TexassDefender has a typical fucked up RW view - only bidness matters, all else must bow before commerce & the Holy Dollar. Dawg forbid any human have…

You did know paternity leave exists by law in many places, yes?

actually many industrialized countries do have paternity leave as well. We have it here in California.

And yet in spite of that, not all of us are alcoholics and poor. I am a Native American; remarkably enough I am not an alcoholic, a drug addict, nor poor (just boringly middle class). We know our communities have some major problems to deal with. The problem with stereotypes is people assume we are ALL alcoholics…

That is twistedly funny. It is almost like the clerk thought your friend personally nailed Jesus to the cross or something, instead of an event that allegedly happened nearly two millenia ago. 'Merkin Evangelicals are hopelessly ignorant of history: it was the Romans who killed Jesus as crucifixion was the Roman…

Yes, I agree. The maddening thing is, kids need this information even if they full intend and succeed in being celibate until marriage. Because most people (I forget the current statistics, somewhere in the 70 to 80% range) will get married at some point in their lives. And they will need basic information about…

WHOA I cannot even imagine what kind of grandmother wd say that to a 5 year old. I am so sorry that happened to you.

That's grand for you, but there are a hell of a lot of parents who are not so sensible or knowledgeable, and tell their kids absolutely nothing. (I read one story of a girl raised in a fundy home who wasn't warned about periods. At all. She woke up one morning with blood on her bed and clothes. She screamed in…

It prevents cysts in women with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome). I don't know about its effects for other women. BCPs also tend to do other good things for PCOS women - lower testosterone (y'know, T gets so high we develop male pattern baldness and grow facial hair. AWKWARD) & create regular menstrual cycles.

Bullshit. For one thing, IUDs are expensive - mine cost around $500 and there are a lot of people who can't afford to pay all that up front.

Because if religious extremists and teahadis no longer had selfserving delusions as fact, they would have nothing left. Poor things.

I would not be so sure, as quite a lot of these dipshit far right nutjobs like to claim that birth control pills are abortifacients (they aren't, but little things like Science, Reality and Facts never got in the way of RWNJ thinking).