No joke. Great, so the bar is low in Saudi Arabia, so why aim for higher here? Let’s talk about what life is like for women in countries with parental leave (not just maternity leave) and reproductive rights that aren’t under attack. Compare ourselves to those countries.

“Oh, it’s sooooooo complimentary that you see my appearance and not my hard work! Thanks for objectifying me rather than treating me as an equal!”

OMG, I hate that “you should be flattered” line. There’s this guy who keeps commenting on the appearance of various female workers at my office (including myself), and his excuse is always “but it’s a compliment!” I wanted to kick him in the balls.

It’s easy to say religion as already stated but I think that only is half the problem. The other half? Money. Making it and keeping it.

It’s funny*, yesterday, while reporting harassment by colleagues to Human Resources the woman taking my formal complaint said “it really is all about perspective,” then proceeded to talk about how revolutionary it might seem to Saudi women that they just got the vote, and how that is old news to Western women. All I…

Not to mention they have yet to show me they are “pro-life” in any way. They support the death penalty, complete deregulation of gun control, doing away with WIC/Head Start/the Department of Education/low cost birth control/affordable healthcare/sex ed in schools/lower cost higher education. Pretty much anything that…

Religion. We have too much religion.

Because, they’re not actually “pro-life” they’re “pro-birth”. They could give 2 shits what happens after birth.

“Pro-life is pro-woman”

George Carlin said “ pro-life is anti-woman” and that is a true description of the movement,

The U.S. healthcare system

No kidding. The brand of pro-life these people push reduces women’s bodies to objects that the women themselves have no autonomy over. Fuck that noise, that’s about as anti-woman as you can get.

nothing i love more than a strongly worded UN letter

I really dislike these “pro-life is pro-women” posters. I do not think anything could be farther from the truth.

I just wrote the same thing. If some woman got my good embryo, I'd basically kill someone.

So many things—1) having just gone through IVF, I literally don’t just understand how this error happened. My doctors office checks and rechecks everything so many times. I was in treatment with this office for about 17 months and before every surgery, a nurse I’ve seen dozens of times would ask to see my license, I’m…

Yeah, my suspicion is that they’d want custody of the child if it were born and that the suggestion of an abortion was to avoid a court battle.

Holy crap, as someone who has struggled with infertility for the past four years and done numerous cycles of IVF, this would be an utter nightmare on both sides. In my case, I do not produce a ton of eggs and every healthy embryo is a small miracle to me. I can’t imagine if the clinic gave it to the wrong person. I…

It sounds more to me that they don’t want someone else to have their baby, not that they don’t want their baby.

Well, there’s no way to tell how a kid would feel about that, so making decisions at this point based on that future person’s feelings is pretty pointless.