This is beautiful and I’m so, so sorry.

As I have written before, my daughter died when she was five in 2011, two months after being diagnosed with an inoperable and malignant brain tumor. There is no cure for her type of tumor - DIPG - and current treatments do little more than extend life for a few months.

Also pregnant, and I have also gone from 100% to 1000% pro-choice.

I just wanted to add something I learned when I became pregnant: A person who is “20 weeks pregnant” has generally only been pregnant for around ~18 weeks. The clock starts from the first day of your last period, because it is difficult to tell when ovulation occurs, and easier to count from your period. So all of…

I had a 2nd trimester abortion for a wanted child with chromosomal abnormalities and that in itself was hard enough. I cannot imagine being forced to carry a terminal fetus to term, being forced to go through the process of either delivering or having a c-section, being forced to deal with everything your body does…

Skipping to the bottom (will go back and finish!) but I am so glad to hear from our Elizabeth. I’ve read, linked and refered to that interview hundreds of times since I read it. Always wondering how she and her family were doing. So excited to see her out there helping, using that story to make it better for the next…

I have always been pro-choice, but pregnancy has increased my conviction tenfold. I live in NY and had amnio at 17 weeks. The safest time to get amnio is between 16-18 weeks, and it can take 3 weeks to get the full results. That means, by the time you find out your child has a genetic defect, you could be 21 weeks…

He’s so see-through: his principle ambition is to undo everything the black man did before him. To paraphrase Stephen Colbert: Trump is so hell-bent on undoing everything Obama did, that it wouldn’t surprise me to see him bring out the 7 Thanksgiving turkeys he pardoned and bludgeon them to death with a club.”

I appreciate his honesty.

I’m not terribly educated on these matters, but isn’t there something called to the effect of separation of church and state that says this shouldn’t be a thing?

It’s like they think that if they don’t use the word “slut”, no one will know what they’re really doing.

Isn’t it weird how “pro-life” leaders work so hard to increase the abortion rate? It’s almost like their commitment to pro-life policies only extends to passing laws regulating what women can do with their bodies, and not to actually reducing the number of abortions (let alone supporting non-fetal life).

Isn’t it weird how “pro-life” leaders work so hard to increase the abortion rate? It’s almost like their commitment to pro-life policies only extends to passing laws regulating what women can do with their bodies, and not to actually reducing the number of abortions (let alone supporting non-fetal life).

This is wonderful! So few people have even heard of the Jane project; I don’t much see it mentioned in mainstream history or documentaries on the women’s movement or what-have-you, like it seems to still be info you really have to seek out. But that was a seriously wild-west time for modern women’s health... To take…

All snark aside, that is really nice and that collection of artists is perfect for Ariana’s fans

The “One Love Manchester” show, set for June 4, will feature artists like Pharrell, Katy Perry, Coldplay, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan, and more.

I mean hate the Kardashians all you want, and certainly hate the culture that allowed them to become a thing, but honestly they have kind of worked to monetize their identities and they have been fairly savvy and diligent about it. I feel like they are unfairly maligned for exploiting our own cultural failings and…

Absolutely. I’m surprised anyone is even assuming or pretending he wrote it. It’s from the @POTUS account and sounds nothing like him. The person who tweeted it has probably already been fired.

I’m thinking that a “handler” wrote it.

I count 138 characters. If he had replaced “w/” with “with”, it would have been 140 exactly. It seems almost intentionally disrespectful to use an abbreviation like that; why the odd informality unless it doesn’t really matter?