Right. It doesn’t matter how you “view” it.  Birth control pills, Plan B, etc. are not abortifacients. 

It’s the level of science denial that greatly disturbs me. Being educated about pregnancy and not allowing doctors to short-circuit a natural birth in the interest of preserving their golf schedule is all good. Walking away from even the most rudimentary assistance is pure insanity. Even a midwife with only the most…

Yeah I would think so too. Given that midwifery has been around FOREVER because women have always preferred to have other women helping them give birth. Because doing it yourself is RIDICULOUS.

Even giving birth COMPLETELY alone has got to be a historical anomaly for women who just happened to live exceptionally isolated lives (I’m thinking pioneer women of the American west who maybe have been homesteading some remote patch of land, for example). Even before births were attended by trained and licensed…

You and I know that, in the big picture, it’s about controlling women.

Abortion on demand will always be available for those with the wherewithal to fly their pregnant daughter or 20 year old sidepiece to another state/country and pay for the procedure.  Of course those silly cunts in the photo don’t believe *their* precious daughters/sisters/nieces will *ever* require such services.  A…

As a “real” abuse victim (dad punched me on a few occasions and pistol whipped me), your thought pattern is why people think hitting their kids is OK. No one is going to define what they did to their kids as bad. The spanking/beating goal posts moves wildly depending on who you are talking to. I didn’t know a lot of…

I hope you don’t get flak for this because this is exactly what the research says. I don’t understand why it’s considered revolutionary to suggest that kids should be treated like human beings rather than wayward animals.

Spanking and yelling* at kids are both demonstrably harmful, whether it rises to objective levels of “abuse” or not. And both are usually rooted in trying to compel compliance and obedience. There’s just no room for respecting the child and where they’re at in the authoritarian model of parenting. But that…

My mom hit/spanked me and my dad was quietly disappointed and spoke to me in a soft voice about the impact of my behavior on myself and other people. All my life, I have been way more invested in my dad’s opinions and scared that he was disapproving of my choices. My mom lashing out physically just made me see that…

I think we need to look at spanking like car seats. So many people hear “you shouldn’t spank your kids” and immediately get defensive because their parents spanked them, and if you aren’t supposed to, than that means that they had bad parents. But they love their parents, they couldn’t have been bad, so that must mean…

The best response I’ve ever read to “Look, my parents spanked me and I turned out fine!” is “No, you didn’t. You think it is okay to hit little kids.”

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Thank you! I had one (well, two) with the birth of my first child, and the doctor told me afterward that it was the first one she’d done in over a year. She explained that common practice had shifted to allowing for natural tears, which heal much better. But LaMorenita’s heart rate was dropping during delivery, and…

Does she not have friends who’ve given birth? Internet access? Did she not go to any prenatal classes, read any books or websites? Honestly I think it’s rather impressive she managed to live this long as a woman AND go through an entire pregnancy without learning that the majority of women have tears in their vaginas…

ugh i feel like all we do is talk about vag tears. 

Episiotomy was once said to be a preventative against those complications but is now known to be medically unnecessary and in many cases more dangerous to a woman’s health. Please consider correcting this article

Given the widespread hang violence in the country, you can’t project USA statistics onto Mexico.

Okay. I’m a weirdo mom.

The WHO recommends nursing until 2 and says the international average is between 3 and 7. Get over it America. I was done nursing my oldest when he was three, mostly because I was tandem nursing and exhausted and my body just told me he was the one who had to go. He’s 4 and would probably still be nursing if I had not…