Alabama had one! My spouse and I voted R to vote against Trump and the crazy ass Tea Partier running against our already pretty conservative Congressman and while I voted for Bush, my spouse opted for “Undecided.”

Not funny enough? I have no idea how someone goes from gray to automatically black. :(

It’s obviously a virtually impossible thing to bring up. My heart goes out to you over those sleepless nights. Frankly, I’m surprised they were even going to test you and that they told you they were going to. I’ve heard of people being tested during delivery, but usually it’s without consent and there are several…

These are the amendments the task force proposed: The first amendment would limit the law to its original purview, which is to penalize adults who expose minors to harmful chemicals and drug fumes, rather than using it to prosecute pregnant women who use substances. The second amendment would mandate that prosecutors…

Hey, I’m a Mobilian, too! We’re actually amending our current laws because they were similar, but not enforced the same way. For example, Mobile County doesn’t prosecute for drug use while pregnant (I worked on fetal and infant mortality case reviews here and most of the time the provider didn’t even test; without any…

Oh, and I think it’d be a fun conversation, too. What’s that saying about the South? We put our crazy on the front porch.

Hey, I’m covered under a religious plan (spouse is a clergyperson) and my insurance covers contraception AND abortion for any reason I want.

Hey, that fun lady in Georgia also sponsored a bill that created a grant program to give $2 million to CPCs!

Not defending him or the privilege he obviously felt and had by being a white kid who attended an elite prep school, but I just finished the Todd Pudrum piece in VF about St. Paul’s and it sounds like his family really isn’t much. His dad works as a landscaper and his mother is a schoolteacher. What influence he has…

I’m so, so sorry for your loss. And also, yes.

I just want to know who had it! It seems kind of amazing that it’s been kept even through the English Reformation and Henry VIII’s military and cultural campaign(s) against the French.

And why we should be protesting the absolute living hell out of bills that cut off federal and state funding for non abortion providers that provide abortion referrals (sorry, this is a drum I will never stop banging).

Yes, yes, yes!! I have adored Dahlia for over ten years and I don’t know that she’s ever written anything I’ve disagreed with. She’s wonderful.

The description in the other Slate piece of how Keller slunk away and lost his exaggerated drawl just made me beam and laugh and cheer. I could picture the image in my head so clearly.

It doesn’t. I was discussing this with a well known abortion provider once and they made the same point—regret is literally a part of life and that’s ok. Why is abortion the only area where people feel the chance of regret should be codified into law?

But. Are those final? ARE THEY FINAL LIKE ABORTION IS FINAL?? Because having a child is apparently not final. (sorry, channeling my inner anti-choicer because I voted in the Republican primary today and still feel super dirty because I had to ask for the Republican ballot and I feel like I should have taken the day…

Yes! It’s maddening.

Exactly.

Oh, it’s the IRS distinction that allows your donation to be tax deductible. If your affiliate has a C4 (you can tell because it’ll be called something like Action Fund) any money donated is non tax deductible and goes towards political work like lobbying (also important!). Donating to the C3 (which you’ll know…

I don’t know; I know a lot of pro-choicers (I live in the deep, deep South) and they care more about their taxes than they do choice issues. Their line is that they’ll fix women’s healthcare when fiscal issues are taken care of. I also noticed this line of thinking in pieces in traditionally feminist platforms, like a…