I’m sorry? How did sharing my experience make this all about me? Wow.

I hear you, thanks for this. I think I understood that deep down, and honestly some of us are on the fence before circumstances force us into the infertile category, so there’s quite possibly a lot of other categories of complex feels around this issue. Like, you think you are good with child free until it’s no longer…

Yeah I get that part but thanks.

I have to say, though, having lived there, this is not an inappropriate alt spell for what locals call “the mistake on the lake” . Having said that, and currently living in Cleveland and witnessing the fear and the shut down university etc, and knowing this whole horrific story, I don’t say this often but I pray for…

At the risk of being called crazy or getting called out for reading a painful article when I should have exercised my right to scroll on by, I’ll jump in here and say I too found this to be a real gut punch. I’ll own it. I was denied a procedure that would have saved my uterus and wasted too many years with someone…

I don’t know. Can’t find an update, unfortunately. Only thing I know is that they identified his license plate around 8.30pm. I’m still looking for info.

Cleveland clinic is on lock down too. I live 5 minutes from the clinic and not far from one of the universities and everyone in the area has been advised to stay indoors. Crazy and so sad.

Wouldn’t that make the BEST reality TV-oh wait.

Yes. Call your representative. I shared my story with mine and they plan to share it on the Senate floor. Name omitted of course. I’m looking at a hysterectomy while I still have an ACA plan in case I can’t afford to just monitor an asymptomatic but large fibroid and deal with any developments down the road. That’s…

I read this in the voice of Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer. Bang on.

Bet your kid can spell “tap,” though. (those are unironic quotation marks BTW)

*what he means in the moment.

Totally agree, and I’m reminded of the “they go low, we go high” thing. Takes a lot of strength.

Thanks. Yes. Too easy to get freaked out.

Thanks for this. I don’t know what to believe about it, really... another commenter kindly shared this, a link to one of Obama’s proclamations in similar vein (albeit much more skillfully executed): https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/21/presidential-proclamation-national-day-hope-and-resolve…

I keep hoping we’ll see Obama v 2.0: Unhinged. But I don’t think we will. He’s too shrewd. He may loosen up a bit (already is, if the video and the tweets are any sign), but he also knows how carefully things have to be played. Can just I say it is SO WEIRD to see him “on the other side” now?? It’s like a different…

Thank you! I feel much better now. I couldn’t get my brain around the logic of this one-off proclamation (I posted indicating such). It would be so much easier to have Obama back writing these. And doing other things. Like Presidenting.

Can someone more legally/politically savvy than I explain the point of this? It’s retroactive, and only for 2017 (meaning, this isn’t an annual... uh... holiday isn’t quite the feeling I’m going for). Is this just one of those “because he can” things to stoke his ego? Sorry, I just truly don’t get the point.

Admittedly I was being brusque/injured/slightly sarcastic. I hear this too. I actually hear both “it’s going to be okay” and “we have to do this” and to some degree the former is contingent upon the latter. I hope we can do this. It’s a mark of strength to listen to someone like Gessen and let her words inform us…

While Obama says things are going to be OK.