Yes. It’s a great place to live. It’ll be even better when The Davis finally re-opens!

What you meant is that this particular woman choosing to have this particular abortion is not worthy of judgment, and that you reserve the right to judge other women for having other abortions, so I think “fuck off you fucking fuck” might have been more appropriate.

You are basically asking her to title this “I was legitmately raped.” You want the headline to assure the reader that this was an acceptable abortion, not one of those bad abortions by bad people. Your judgement is one of the problems we are having around abortion.

Exactly. I have a friend who, at 28 weeks, was told her baby had died. She had to go into hospital —- to the maternity wing no less—- and endure an induction and traditional delivery. Her husband, ironically a physician, could not handle it, so I sat with her. She was not treated with any sort of compassion by staff,…

the woman literally emailed me right after the story went up to say “i’m glad you told that commenter to fuck off”

It’s crazy common to have miscariages and infertility and think you don’t know anyone else who has gone through it because nobody talks about it. I’m kind of shocked that Jezebel hasn’t done a series on it given how many different reasons there are for infertility and means of treatment.

It didn’t take a different turn tho. I mean, what the headline said is literally exactly what happened.

Did anything about the article seem remotely judgmental? You’re putting your own interpretation in a factual headline.

PLEASE fuck off

Jia, I just want to say how much I appreciate your work on this site and your writing. If I ever run into you in the City, the Chipotle’s on me.

Except the title is succinct. You may think there is no judgment on your part, but there is because you feel the need to defend her further in the title. It’s kind of irrelevant what her reasons are. She deserves your respect because she’s a woman who made a choice about her body. The end.

She understood exactly what you meant. This woman you’re not judging, but other women who get late term abortions are. But this is a typical late term abortion.

I don’t find the title to be misleading at all. This is what abortion is.

I didn’t see this right away and I called Dr. Hern’s office to ask how I could donate money directly to the practice. I had a fifteen-minute conversation with Dr. Hern himself. In addition to being a hero, he is a very humble and cool guy.

Here’s a link to Dr. Hern’s clinic for anyone interested in offering support directly to the people who work there, and here’s the National Network of Abortion Funds. The George Tiller Memorial Fund specifically goes to late abortions.