By that logic, though, these companies need to place restrictions on how their employees spend their paychecks. What if they spend Hobby Lobby money on birth control?!?! Is that a tacit endorsement, too? Best to just pay your employees in monopoly money that they can only use at the company store.

We're not SAYING he's addicted to crack; WE'RE JUST ASKING THE QUESTION. We are NOT AFRAID of asking TOUGH QUESTIONS, like, say, IS PRESIDENT OBAMA ADDICTED TO CRACK? Again, we're not saying he is, we're just asking!

No problem! It's splitting hairs to me, but apparently some nuts care really, really hard about the distinction. And anyone who has gone through IVF will confirm that implantation is what really matters for getting pregnant. (They fertilize eggs in a lab and place them inside, but unless they "stick," you're SOL.)…

This is why Ruth Bader Ginsberg (and possibly Justice Breyer as well) should retire so we don't get stuck with two more Scalias!

Research suggests that some types of IUDs can prevent implantation after an egg has been fertilized. Once sperm meets egg, it takes about 5 days to travel down the fallopian tube to the uterus. Some IUDs alter the lining of the uterus so that even if the primary birth control mechanism fails (preventing conception),…

Nope: Washington DC, Chicago, rural Colorado.

Do we know that this was an intentional case?

I posted this in response to someone else, but I'll post here again. I've had 3 friends without kids try to get IUDs. All 3 failed. With the first, the doctor actually prescribed pills derived from pregnant cow hormones to make her uterus bigger, but she still couldn't insert it. With the other two, they stopped…

I think IUDs used to only be appropriate for women who had carried a pregnancy to term, for medical reasons. Now, a lot of doctors say they are for everyone, and the IUD companies claim that anyone can use them. However, I've had three friends without kids try to get IUDs and all three IUDs failed to take. With the…

It says a lot about the Catholic Church that the public goes head over heels lavishing praise on a pope who says that gay people and women might be full humans, too.

Ha! Yes! The other day, my boss asked me to review a box of documents. I asked if I could take the box down to my office, but she insisted that I shouldn't be lifting anything. To make it worse, the next day, an elderly secretary came shuffling into my office with the box. I suppose it's good that my boss is…

Go run! I mean, do some research on what's safe, sure, but if you worked out before you got pregnant and it still feels good, it's probably really healthy for you to keep exercising. I lifted weights and did Crossfit before I got pregnant. Now I still go to classes, but I lift lighter weights, avoid abs workouts, and…

It's frustrating to me how people seem to equate pregnancy with sickness. I'm 25 weeks, and "How are you?" has been entirely replaced by "How are you feeling?" It doesn't really bother me because I know people mean well, but I'm pregnant, not sick! And I think the same mentality contributes to the common myth that…

The average age for menopause is 51, and plenty of women enter menopause in their late 40s. This woman was 48. So even if she did go through menopause slightly early, it's still very different from if a younger woman had experienced this.

Just checked WebMD. It says that a hysterectomy is a very low-risk surgery. It may cause early menopause, but that's much more common with removing the ovaries, not the uterus. "After a hysterectomy, the vast majority of women surveyed feel the operation was successful at improving or curing their main problem (for…

It was my understanding that removing the ovaries could send someone's hormones out of whack, but not the uterus. As for ageism, I'm just looking at this from an actuarial / monetary value standpoint. If she were of childbearing age, then a huge part of her damages would be the fact that this surgery deprived her of…

She was 48?!? That's a pretty relevant detail! If she were younger and had hoped to have children, that should have been included in the damages. But at 48, this kind of seems equivalent to having your appendix removed without consent. Still a shitty violation of trust, but the organ wasn't really doing much.

I agree, except that following doctors blindly is not always the best idea. It takes a long time for new research to reach doctors, so only the vigilant ones stay up-to-date about the latest studies. And they all have different philosophies of treatment. If I thought a pediatrician was overprescribing antibiotics and…

A cross between Miss Claudette and Miss Rosa, perhaps?

I thought that about the truck, too, and mentioned it to my husband. He pointed out that it's a minimum security prison, and common sense might go a long way in preventing escape. They even mention it in Season 2: Morello would have gotten her sentence doubled (tripled?) if they found out she had gone off-route. Plus,…