Oh SOOOOO many people conflate “fetus” “baby” and “person.” One of these people tweeted at me this a.m. “50% of all people who go into abortion clinics don’t walk out.” I responded “fetuses can’t walk anyway, so.....” Which people then read out of context, and asked if I would abort a paraplegic, or thought that…

I don’t have a hard-and-fast metric for defining brain function, it’s just something I’ve been mulling over since I read the Church of Satan’s rejection of the heartbeat standard in their legal challenge to either TX or OH’s regressive abortion restrictions.

I know people who carried a pregnancy to term knowing that the baby, their second, had skeletal dysplasia, meaning the bones, including ribs, would not grow enough to accommodate functioning organs like lungs. The baby lived for an hour outside the womb before dying. I can’t imagine how much physical pain it must have…

That’s hilarious, I see that! In one ultrasound ours looked like a series of attached circles. I feared I would be birthing a Weeble with little round hands.

Thank you. That is such a crucial part of this. That is the choice WE would make, it’s NOT the choice friends of ours have made. Hell, I will love my partner forever because he didn’t bat an eye at my choice to run a marathon at 9 weeks pregnant when I miscarried my previous pregnancy. After decades of trying NOT to…

I would prefer giving up Columbus day and having the day after Halloween off, if we’re negotiating, or have omnipotent holiday-creating powers.

My almost 8month pregnant ass stupidly weighed in on a man’s pro-life discussion on Twitter this morning, they thought it was barbaric to get an abortion post 20 weeks. Totally ignoring that only around 1.2% of abortions happen that late. As more and more forced birthers kept piling on they all kept wanting to know…

I was called everything but a Nazi earlier today for suggesting that Downs is one of many genetic abnormalities that might lead a person to choose to abort a very wanted pregnancy. My partner and I will both need to work, and can’t afford to lose an income, thus we simply could not afford a child with a serious birth…

If life was just determined by heartbeat then every time a married person flat-lined and was brought back, would their significant other now be a widow or widower, would they have to remarry? Heart function often can’t be detected until week 8 anyway, it’s why doctors wait so long for a first appointment. I didn’t…

This is an excellent point. Though I do also think a lot of us got complacent under Obama, thinking a Dem in office was enough, I know I did. But yes, social justice work takes time and energy. So much time and energy.

I HATE that I have also spent moments of my time imagining his intestinal health.

Interesting, and highly revealing, I guess we should be grateful he didn’t go with “National Day of Kicking Ass and Taking Names, Also Tits!”

Day 4: resist

I saw a headline about how Sean Spicer consumes 2.5 packs of gum a day before noon and for the eleventy-billionth time since January 2016 I found myself thinking “No, this must be The Onion, that can’t be real.” Only to follow the link to an article in which Spicer admits to chewing AND SWALLOWING something like 45…

I feel like it’s already burning. We’re all laughing about how vain and childish Trump is to be claiming that “millions” of “illegals” voting is why he lost the popular vote, but that lie, spun to shield his fragile ego, will no doubt also be deployed as a GOP justification for further restricting voter laws, and…

You know, my SO told me about this, and I thought he was joking. (In my defense my SO didn’t know what specific day was being named a National Patriot Day, he helpfully suggested that it should be “the first Monday after the Super Bowl”). This is real life?? Making his own inauguration day a fucking holiday?? Even Kim…

We can all use encouragement to do the good, hard, necessary work that lies ahead to fight against those who seek to disenfranchise, endanger, silence, or even kill people of color, women, LGBTQ folks, the poor, etc. Nudging you right back!

Real question: what happened to Katrina Pierson? was KellyAnne all “it’s either her or me, there can only be one?” Katrina is the queen of alternative facts!

Update: My friend responded! She was super flattered and admitted that running for office was something she had considered. Yeah!

Interesting, you tried volumizing mascaras, is that because you feel like the fake eyelashes do length so your mascara preference is for volume over lengthening? Do you have a favorite lengthening mascara? (Bonus if it is waterproof)