Let's hope that this serves as a wake-up call to the governments of Ireland and Chile

And the UN saying there should be exceptions in cases of rape and incest essentially supports this view, as it's saying "abortion is okay where it's not the woman's fault".

I'm pretty sure its citizens identify as being Irish on at least some level

It's really weird to hear a Belfast accent described as an Irish accent. I know it could technically be true (depending on whether he identifies as British or Irish), but it's still strange.

Didn't Beyonce have a song about a hundred years ago called "check up on it" which included the words "twerk it"? Not only has the concept been around for ages before Miley did it, Beyonce brought it to white audiences a long long time ago. But it's only noteworthy/a term worth remembering when a young white chick…

Except people are not french fries...

Second last paragraph: http://jezebel.com/the-crappy-thi…

Please no more, I read about knotting last week and my brain shut down. No more!

Thank you for teaching me two new words today, dubcon and kinkshaming. I'm oddly proud of figuring out the first one without looking it up :)

That's sick :(

Savita Halappanavar. There was also Sheila Hodgers in the 80s, a woman who was in the early stages of pregnancy when she was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors wouldn't treat her for cancer as the drugs would harm the foetus, and they wouldn't give her an abortion (or painkillers!) though she and her husband begged…

RECIPE OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

I have a mental image of you in a forest, foraging. You find a blindingly white cup of greek yoghurt under a dock leaf and sit down prettily in your circle skirt to eat it.

AMEN. I know so many people who consider their diet to be the One True Diet, but I think everyone's body is different and has different needs. I do well on very high protein diets, my sister does well on a high carb diet. If I ate like she did, I would be in a lethargic stupor and I would feel weak. If she ate like I…

He also charges ten dollars "a hour".

Ho-lee SHIT. I didn't consider any of those things. Maybe dick pics do serve a valid purpose then, like a resume. Unsolicited dick pics are surely even less welcome than unsolicited resumes though.

What's an ugly dick? I'm a hetero woman, and while I find many things about men rather attractive, penises aren't one of them. How do you distinguish an ugly one from a...um...pretty one?

In Ireland, we have a phrase "there's none so pure as a reformed whore". Usually applied to ex-smokers, people who have lost a lot of weight, and people who have suddenly found religion.

Do you think she's being a good role model? Or is she setting an impossible standard?

Your mother in law is right, see Winnicott's work on the "good enough" mother: