Oh. A female medical professional has spoken.

It took me two to three years to get a senior feral cat to trust me and when he got seriously injured in a fight he came to my house and called for me. Took him to the vet and had to keep him inside to heal but after he healed he decided to stay with me. I guess he decided my family was his new pack of cats. He is…

I think the problem here is that this “minor issue” is indicative of larger issues faced by women across the country such as lack of access to contraception, healthcare, health education, and/or leave policies that don’t incentivize “getting all the birthing out of the way” so we can move forward with our careers.…

It’s good that you’re finally acknowledging the differences between cultures without being condescending about it. I think many people are even more outraged about this situation because the woman is a veterinarian, whose very job description embodies caring for animals. Growing up on a ranch will almost certainly…

Farm life is different, but there are some points you’re glossing over here:

Funding for public health and maternal health is finite. That is a fact.

Just as an FYI on my perspective. I have a scientific degree and spent a great deal of my career working in public health. I really won’t say much more for doxxing reasons. Most of my focus has been clinical research and nothing to do with maternal health, I’ll concede that. I may not be right on this, but I’m coming…

I’m sorry, I didn’t see the degree qualifications for commenting on jezebel.

When my dad died we wanted to joke “he always said the Giants were going to kill him” (Giants as in the NY Football team, this being in January 2012 a few weeks before The Super Bowl, and that being a thing he actually said) but our newspaper wouldn’t let us.

I can’t hate. My family (all very politically active Democrats, Hillary and left-of-Hillary types) totally does this. I’ve already drafted some jokes for my parents’ obits and they know they are about politics. My grandfathers both had messages about voting on their funeral programs. Non-partisan, but it was hardly…

This article overcomplicates these recommendations all over the place. The Birth spacing that is referenced here is actually the time between the first live birth and the start of the next pregnancy. “Reproductive health experts recommend a minimum of 18 months between births,” makes it sound like you only have to…

I clicked over to the CDC report. They were studying the interpregnancy interval — the time between the end of one pregnancy and start of another. So the recommendation is to wait 18 months after birth to get pregnant again. So any siblings spaced less than 27ish months apart fall into the “problematic” too soon…

I’m one of 6, and I have a very clear memory of my mother being scolded by the midwife for not spacing her births far enough apart. My father is pretty traditional, so the bulk of the childrearing (except the strong discipline) was left to my mother, with me as help (I’m the oldest, and the only daughter). “If he’s…

“Reproductive health experts recommend a minimum of 18 months between births” Do you mean 18 months between births or pregnancies? If its births then the pregnancies can be as little as 9 months apart.

It’s funny you say that. I actually know TWO different people who’s real lives have become Lifetime Movies. One is my college friend, who’s mom had a movie made about her real-life rape and subsequent advocacy for federal funding for DNA testing and results sharing that expanded CODIS (“A Life Interrupted”). The…

I get your point, but I also bristle at the idea of telling women how they should dress or express their faith/ideas/etc. under any circumstances. Just because the hijab comes from an oppressive religious tradition and impulse doesn’t mean that all women who wear the hijab see it that way now. For many women its…

Well hi there. I’m a Muslim woman who decided to wear the headscarf. I don’t find it harmful - in fact, it makes me happier. My headscarf does two things:

My sister has several medical conditions, including brain-damage, and these have meant she has always been overweight (cuddly) and can seem a little slow. She’s also genuinely the sweetest, most laid-back person I know, which at high school basically means all these things combine to paint TARGET across her back.

I’m a lawyer, and at the time of this incident was practicing in several fairly small and rural Southern counties. I’d been out of law school for 2 or 3 years, long enough to be tired of the crap I would fairly regularly get from some older male lawyers. I had a trial in the neighboring county, and my opposing counsel…

Unfortunately the sickest burn I’ve ever heard was directed at me by my five-old-nephew. So during March break a year ago my parents and I were looking after him for my brother and sister-in-law. We took him to the Royal Botanical Gardens one day and on our way back as I’m buckling him into his car seat this happens: