you will learn your go-to mom line when your children start repeating it back to you. Apparently my go to line is "Relax." (Sort of hilarious when my toddler says it to me...)

Hi, lawyer-in-training here. (I graduate this month.) I'll try to explain why it is absolutely vital that schools be able to investigate and prosecute rape cases according to their student codes of conduct. There is also an op-ed in USA Today that tackles this: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

Hah. When I was in college, my freshman year roommate communicated mostly through Post-Its. One day, I got sick of her not taking out the trash so I left the trash can next to her bed in the hope that if it were in her space rather than mine she would do it (because I communicated through passive-aggression). …

I think it's difficult for most people to admit their ignorance the way that Kim Kardashian has with regard to racism. I don't understand the instinct to mock someone for this. Thinking that these issues are everyone else's problem is not actually that uncommon, especially for this generation. So good for her for…

Being pregnant made me realize the importance of abortion access even more profoundly than before. Even though all my pregnancies have been welcomed (one was even specifically planned!), it is nevertheless an often uncomfortable, mental and physical takeover. Additionally, being a parent irrevocably changes your life…

I think our cultural narrative of "abortion=tragedy, motherhood=bliss" hurts all women. I know mothers who sometimes wish they weren't parents and feel incredibly guilty for it (not that they'd really trade their kids for the world, just that they're actually—gasp!—human and sometimes think about and wish for what…

I had an abortion last year. It was way easier and less dramatic than my wisdom teeth removal (which is a very funny, bloody story). It was also dramatically less painful than my kidney stones earlier in the year. Also, anal abscess that came back twice, so I had to get drained a total of 3 times: WAY WAY WAY WAY…

Hi everybody! Your friendly neighborhood ShutTheFuckUp Man here. That other thread over at Gawker Prime is such a trainwreck that even I don't have time to find all the people who need to be told to shut the fuck up. If you happen to come across any truly egregious posters, please send up the STFU Signal and let me…

I posted this on the Gawker article too but I think what she did was so important I'll post it again... I wish so much I had been able to see a video like this before my abortion more than a decade ago. I was sure sure it was the right decision. I struggled with it more than she did, leading up to it, but I did a lot…

I have lurked on this site for years, but I never commented....until today, because this story hit home. First of all, I commend this woman greatly for doing this video and erasing the social stigma of abortions. When I was 19, I was dating a guy and I became pregnant. We used protection, but the condom broke. I was…

I'm normally pro-choice, but...I don't have any tea with me, so I'm pro-choice and kinda thirsty. I'll just put the kettle on and have positive feelings for this woman who was able to exercise her bodily autonomy, had a positive support system to help her through it and who I hope is having a good day now that she's…

Oh totally she did. I get pregnant as often as possible just to have an aspiration curretage abortion/pedi/mani.

Yes - an all this "she got herself pregnant." You know, by herself. With her own semen.

Oh, a woman showing a video of her abortion procedure yet doesn't show any graphic material whatsoever is unacceptable, but picketing outside of clinics, wearing t-shirts and plaster posters with mangled fetuses is hunky-dorey? Anti-abortionists sure have FUCKED UP priorities.

Let me just whip these out ahead of the troll deluge:

It bothers me how people all hail Clinton as such a nice guy and great President but still say Lewinsky's name with a sneer.

The government should confiscate their rifles and compensate them with muskets.

THANK FUCKING GOD- also, someone needs to do some digging on that original judge and figure out why he's trying to so hard to justify a grown man having sex with his 14 yo STUDENT being okay