I think it's fine. I'm planning to take out a policy on my baby when she's born. It's a benefit provided by my employer and 100% paid by them. There are rules that only close family members can take out policies on each other because (supposedly) then there's no incentive to kill the person. In my case, I would be…

The life insurance part doesn't sound suspicious to me. Each parent probably had a policy provided by their employers. It's pretty standard for employers to offer life insurance policies to their employees' family members. And a combined $27,000 is a really measly policy on a small child. It might be suspicious if…

Erm, there are still a LOT OF HOLES here. In my mind, you're still miles away from guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

That's fair, but I did try to point out that my comment may stem from a personal issue of mine. It just seems like "Mass is the best state ever! I'm so glad I don't have to live in some other gross, ignorant state" is kind of equivalent of "Murrica!" or "Thank goodness I'm Canadian, so I don't have to deal with health…

Good for you? Did you just come here to brag? Sheesh.

Online, there are back-to-school sales, closeout sales on last year's models and discounts for early booking. Dr. Irvin buys vaccines for polio, whooping cough, tetanus and hemophilus meningitis from Sanofi-Pasteur on a site called the Vaccine Shoppe. "I feel like I'm going to a boutique," she commented while…

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you live in the greater Boston area. I lived in central Mass for 18 years, and it's a different world. This is the state that elected Mitt Romney as governor. There is also a very strong Catholic presence, even in Boston. Mass is liberal in many ways, but it also has…

In my experience, MA has more protests than other states. Even if every state had protests, though, that still undermines the OP's point that people in MA "don't have to deal with the bull that other states are dealing with." Every liberal state with abortion protests deals with them in its own way. MA is not…

When I lived in Chicago, I would pass two clinics on my way to work and never once saw a protest.

Agh, that's so weird that he started volunteering his "story" — a sure sign that something is off.

You do realize that this news story exists because of the scary abortion protests in Massachusetts, right? People in a lot of other states don't have to deal with that to begin with. Signed, a former Mass resident.

What did you see??

But your dad knew that your half-brother wasn't his biological child. That's an important distinction. I think that if a father raised a child as his own and formed those bonds, and only found out years later that it wasn't his bio kid, that would be a huge betrayal that could cause him to question his entire family…

Society is rigged to make working mothers feel guilty. Why is a school hosting class coffees at 9 AM? Have it at 7:30 AM or on the weekend. Since we do live in this world that prioritizes stay-at-home parents, we have to cope with it. So I ask, where was the little girl's father, grandma, or family friend? I had…

The point is that there is no male equivalent to IUDs. The Supreme Court has singled out a form of health care that disproportionately (read: only) affects women.

Why limit it to marriage equality? I plan to employ this phrase in many debates, on many topics!

Why is marriage not solely religious? Because atheists have feelings, too.

Pap tests screen for abnormal cervical cells, which are caused by HPV. Without an abnormal pap, a pure HPV test is even more meaningless, since most people have some strain(s) of it with no issues or symptoms whatsoever.

Pap tests screen for HPV, and those are already only recommended every 3 years after a normal one. If you have an abnormal one, they still re-test in 6 months to a year. I think the reasoning is that a ton of people have HPV that causes some cervical dysplasia / abnormal pap, convincing many women that they have…

The distinction is irrelevant because most people use the terms "racism" and "racial prejudice" interchangeably. I also disagree that power is required, because unfortunately, there are plenty of disadvantaged people who are also racist / racially prejudiced — often against other disadvantaged minorities.