I really wish more doctors would challenge laws like this as an affront to their own conscience. All they have to do is sue, saying “Prescribing a non-medically necessary procedure goes against my conscience as a doctor and personal beliefs as a private citizen.” I understand why they don’t (it’s a bigass, expensive…

Honestly. Is this what Republicans think will happen? Silly me, of course not. They think motherhood is a woman’s greatest calling and always, always a blessing.

This isn’t even the first time this has happened to me let me go drink a cup of arsenic

6th birthday: “Yeah, I really don’t think this is working out...”

From the point of view of someone in medicine, it’s just going to waste doctors’ time and add to fear of doing abortions. I don’t know it if will change women’s minds, or if it’s even intended to, but if you slap enough fines onto laws regarding doing abortion procedures wrong, pretty soon some doctors will just give…

That’s the insidious thing about a lot of this shit. Its ineffective even to the goals they're trying to do. I'm sure somewhere there has been a few successful attempts to persuade a woman into not having an abortion. But by and large these cheap guilt trip tactics just don't work. So at this point, these types of…

I wonder if they think a woman, on having to pay for an ultrasound and the abortion will decide, fuck it, it’s cheaper to just carry the pregnancy to term and care for a child.

you know what else is an irreversible decision??? HAVING A BABY

There will be some quiverfull secret shoppers all up in the ob/gyn offices.

Yeah, a kid is temporary though. You can totally backpedal on having a kid.

Do these people even hear what they’re saying? Yeah, because women are too damned stupid to figure out that an abortion isn’t reversable. Because they haven’t thought about it at all, they just showed up on a whim. “Hey, I’m not doing anything, why not get an abortion? I can always change my mind later.” Happens every…

Vice takes a lot of crap from gawkerites, but I generally find their stuff interesting. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency is always good for a quick laugh.

What do other people read on the Internet? I’ve been a Jez-addict for so long, I’m not sure what other blog could fill the space, but with my favorite writers leaving in droves over the last couple of years, it seems like I’ll need somewhere new to while away my time.

WELL THIS FUCKING SUCKS.

That last one is legit - that shit is expensive! I told Mr Penguin that if my benefits wouldn’t cover all of my IUD then I expected him to pony up. Luckily for me Planned Parenthood does IUDs at cost so there was no copay.

Truth.

Jet Fuel Can’t Melt Steel Beams

The fox in a fedora is way cuter than it has a right to be. Tara is awesome!

Edit: Wait, WHAAA??!?! Noooooo! =( Tara don’t go! I need these every year all year!