Well, women (and men, for that matter) shouldn't take up an extra seat with purses or other bags. But I agree with you that the ball airer-outers are way more common than the space-hogging bag holders.

seconded.

"Every year some teenaged boy in my class decides to choose anti-abortion as the topic for his persuasive essay." That would really get under my skin.

so sorry for your loss, and for the horror of your wife having to see that (ever) after losing a pregnancy.

We've been dealing with these people in Albuquerque for a little over a year now. Bud and Tara Shaver were sent here from Kansas by Operation Rescue after George Tiller's clinic shut down. They are terrible bullies. Last year, they tried to pass a city wide 20 week abortion ban (luckily, it didn't pass). They…

The first time we saw it, my wife just had a miscarriage days before this. She started sobbing and yelling at him from our car as we drove past. It was truly awful.

I would risk being arrested to fucking ruin that truck. I would travel with paint, rollers and a tray in my trunk at all times. Fuck that guy.

Every year some teenaged boy in my class decides to choose anti-abortion as the topic for his persuasive essay. And every year I have to slog through a 3 page paper full of dubiously sourced "evidence" and half baked ideas formed by looking only at their own personal values and biased evidence that supports their own…

They wouldn't care because they think women who die like that deserve it.

How would they like an image of a dead, bloodied woman and a twisted coathanger on the floor next to that one, with the phrase, "When abortion was not safe, legal and accessible, women died. Save women's lives - protect choice."

Completely serious. It's going on in several Southern states. They are running drug tests on delivering mothers and then busting them if they turn up positive. One woman attempted suicide and failed, but it killed the fetus- she's up for life in prison. There was a 16 year old who had a stillbirth (cord wrapped around…

Ding! You win hopefully not being in Ireland with a working uterus. Congrats!

Let's all take a minute to remember that, as horrible as this is, there are many women in the US facing criminal prosecution, including life in prison, for failing to deliver healthy babies. Just one case: http://www.alternet.org/woman-facing-l…. This site has an unfortunate history of representing all Latin American…

Fun reminder: there is one first world nation which receives the same failing grade as El Salvador from the Center for Reproductive Rights on basic legal protections of women's reproductive rights. Everyone shout it out!!

Isn't FoF James Dobson's grifting scheme?

Just a random note on FoF. I knew the son of one of the leaders, and he was the biggest piece of shit I ever met. He knocked up my friend, refused to help pay for the abortion and instead choked her when he found out. He already had a child with a cocktail waitress that the family hid from everyone to keep the…

There really is no right or wrong way to make that decision or how to feel about it. What kills me is that when my best friend had an abortion a few weeks ago, she didn't know which of her friends she could talk to about it without them being an asshole. She was absolutely confident in her decision and shouldn't have…

Yeah, no shit. I have no problem with deciding being a major decision for many women. Of course it could be. If you have to write a letter, pray/beg forgiveness from your God whatever. I remember mine as being a huge inconvenience and pain in the ass. I was working as a cocktail waitress at the time, I was 20. I had…

Yes. This makes me a bit nervous as it gets close to the "You'll regret your abortion someday!" territory the anti-choice folks use to dissuade women from opting to terminate.

THE HARM comes when ASSHOLES make it illegal to GET an abortion, dumbass.