I used to work for PP and I always, always tell people to donate to the affiliate’s C3. That actually helps to pay for services if that’s what you want to do. I know my local affiliate even has a list of how much money goes to pay for what service.

In a word, protesters. There are some clinics that are connected to hospitals (UNC and UCSF come to mind, but there are others, too), but by and large hospitals want to avoid allowing anything that would draw large scale disruptions and threats to safety like protesters routinely create.

Oh, I think Oliver may have been incorrect—you’re the second person I’ve seen say Mississippi since it aired.

I haven’t watched the entire John Oliver piece, but I wanted to clarify that it’s Alabama that is trying to pass the clinic as pedophile law. It targets the Huntsville clinic, which serves northern Alabama, Georgia, and southern Tennessee.

It’s a thing that has been kept under the radar because the media focuses so much on PP. Also, as you saw, you have to read the whole text to see what they actually do. AUL, though, doesn’t hide the fact that this is their whole intention. This is their report on the AR law: ending “the disbursement of federal and…

These laws specifically apply to grants like Title X (in the case of PP). But when you include places that do referrals as abortion providers (literally redefining the term), that’s DV shelters, rape crisis centers, HIV organizations, etc. Federal grants are distributed through the states, so these laws aim to make…

What I really want is for someone to pay attention to the absolutely horrible laws that are trending in the US right now regarding referrals to abortion. Americans United for Life has a template for a bill that is ostensibly cutting off funding for PP, but the language includes cutting off state and federal funding…

Oh my God, I think that decal thing was my husband’s hometown. Yuck yuck yuck.

Don’t forget SB7, which looks to reclassify any entity that does abortion referrals as an abortion service provider (the likes of which is already law in Arkansas).

Yeah, they slobbered all over themselves trying to prove who would allow the most women to die. First or second debate.

IIRC, the referral part comes into play a LOT with HIV/AIDS service organizations and organizations that work with refugees and survivors of war crimes.

There’s already federal law barring the sale of body parts.

That is so fucking true. Part of my job is to track legislation related to abortion in several states and every single one of them has a bill proposed that regulates the disposal of fetal remains after abortions. I think 7 of the 8 also have bills forbidding the “sale” of “human body parts.” This is what her lies have…

I graduated hs in 1999 and I can remember specific days if they’re associated with bigger events. Like, I went on this really long walk with a friend on Martin Luther King Day and then was sore and felt sick the next day and I assumed it was the walk and it turned out to be the first symptoms of mono. Asia said she…

I’ve been listening to Undisclosed, too, and the information that they have shown has given me major doubts, too. I wasn’t sure after Serial (definitely skeptical enough for reasonable doubt), but now it just seems bizarre that there were so many inconsistencies that were never explored.

My husband seems really overly concerned about Jeb! and we finally realized it was the last vestiges of his former Republican self coming out. We live in a really conservative district and have been talking about asking for the Republican ballot to vote against the horrible, awful, no good Tea Partier who’s running…

The school where my kids go does a big production every spring. Last year it was Grease. This is an Episcopal school, but we’re also in a very, very conservative part of the South, so I expected some changes to the songs/script. They were there (no pussy wagon, no chicks’ll cream). Except—this had a scene that wasn’t…

I read the piece last night and didn’t bother looking at the author when I was done because when I was finished I just thought “fuuuuuuuuck.” Of course it was Lepore. Because she is amazing.

I feel like there’s a book out there about abortions in the death camps. I bet it touches on refugee camps, as well. Cannot imagine the strength of will that these women had.

My money’s on him appointing himself VP. He looked around and couldn’t find anyone more qualified than the guy in the mirror.