So no cost birth control that puts women in control of their reproduction sounds weird but handing out condoms is totally fine? BLARGH. I'm going to give you a pass and hope to baby Jesus that you unintentionally posited gender discrimination into that comment. Unless you were referring to female condoms - which…

I can see giving out free condoms though

The simple answer is that it helps give women the ability to control and manage their reproductive health.

Quite apart from the moral positives (women not having to pay for something just because they're women because there is no male pill, etc.) and to be kind of cold and utilitarian about it, it makes economic sense. If women with low incomes (many of them married with kids already) are not able to afford birth control,…

I personally believe everyone should have access to free health care, and I class birth control as health care. Not to mention birth control saves a hell of a lot of money in the long run (unwanted kids are expensive). Also, being able to make a decision about when and if to have a child makes a hell of a difference…

Because it is vital to the health and well-being of a community. Vital.

Because unwanted children cost way more, financially and socially, than providing free birth control.

Kremlin? More like Crammed-In!

Tacky are the people who judge others sex lives.

That is equal parts sad and hilarious.

Sweater monster, obv.
I'm pretty sure that's what I look like 90% in the winter anyway.

I know, right? I hate when my boyfriend bleeds at unexpected intervals of intensity for days at a time and gets to feel punched in the stomach for most of it. He's just so whiny about being fatigued and bloated and all of his clothes fitting weird and getting stains on all of his favorite boxers and then I'll ask him…

In the UK we call these 'hospitals'.

depicting the scene downstairs as, basically, Carrie at the prom.

It seems so obvious- women's reproductive health exists on a spectrum, and whether or not you are terminating or continuing a pregnancy, you deserve compassionate, comprehensive care. In the abortion clinic where I worked for years, about 70% of the women seeking abortions already had children. Lots of times, these…

A few months after the death of a baby my husband and I very much wanted, I found out that a friend had had an abortion. She was terrified to tell me because she thought that I would hate her for killing her child (her words) when I couldn't have mine. Her sister used me as an example of why abortion is evil. I was…

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but there's also nothing wrong with parents wanting their children to grow up surrounded by values that are important to them.

Making this an us vs them issue does absolutely nothing to help matters.