So have you been providing a pregnancy test to all of your prospective sexual partners? I mean, if you think it’s totally reasonable for a woman to have to waste her time, resources, and emotional wellness on stupid amounts of pregnancy tests, I am assuming you think it’s reasonable for men to help provide them, no?

“Why take the chance?”

Well, we have these things called periods. It’s a cycle where our uterus sheds bloody tissue for a few days, or a week or so, for the unlucky among us. With a few rare exceptions, we don’t worry until we notice that has stopped, which happens during pregnancy. Women are much more worried about disease and unprotected…

It ignore the fact that lesbians exist, and it’s paternalistic bullshit that assumes we’re all going to be breeders. No children for me, thanks.

Cool story, bro. Thanks for the mansplanation.

Because, you’re not an adult human being: you’re simply a potential incubator. And don’t you forget it, girls!

Yes, that was the most infuriating thing about it. I don’t fucking want kids, ever, so to be viewed as pre-pregnant makes me want to scream. And it’s such a slippery slope...I guess we shouldn’t eat soft cheeses or play in contact sports either? Fuck that.

Yup, I don’t think the CDC realizes how severely your more reliable birth control options are limited when you cannot use hormonal methods. Or they realize they just don’t care. We are after all, merely incubators according to this warning.

This what infuriates me about state mandated or even OBGY in mandated drug testing during pregnancy. I know some OBs say they’ll test at your first appointment. Like you’re not suppose to have agency of your body even before you were pregnant? If your’re showing signs of a serious drug problem going into the 2nd…

I feel like I see this attitude - that women should never consume anything that could harm a completely hypothetical surprise fetus - all the time in medicine, and it has always rubbed me the wrong way. During lectures, I’ve heard professors tell us to not prescribe teratogenic medications to any woman of childbearing…

That sounds like a life full of constant anxiety to me, anyway you only need to take a test if you’re late or totally irregular. I assume that you’re a guy since you didn’t know that, so please slow your roll on wondering why women don’t perfectly perform to your arbitrary standards that are based on nothing.

I don’t think having a few drinks during the early, undetectable stages of an unplanned pregnancy is going to affect my ability to get an abortion, so I’m gonna keep on drinking as much as I want.

The warning has just a hint of the mentality that considers all women of childbearing age to be “pre-pregnant.” There’s already a substantial portion of the population that sees women as walking incubators, and I worry that this could encourage that thinking.

Nevermind the fact that some of us sexually active ladies of childbearing age are in no way getting pregnant since our partners don’t have penises.

At what point are we called what they consider us - potential breeding stock?

It’s pretty insulting. Why not just stick with “if you’re trying, don’t drink?” I mean, what’s next? Limit coffee if you’re not on birth control? No sushi? No prescription drugs? No soft cheeses? No roller coasters? Absurd. I mean, come on.

Because, once again, we are incubators first, and sentient beings second.

I used to be a “head is for Clinton, heart is for Sanders” Democrat until I read this:

It sounds fair to me. They need to take care of their rape problem first though.

“I sure hope — we’re in Bernie Sanders’ backyard here in New Hampshire — I sure hope he intends to show up in his neighboring state”...“There is nothing worse than a debate about debates.”