I have a scenario for your consideration. Imagine an article about a woman who got pregnant from accidental artificial insemination (a la Jane the Virgin) in a place where you can get abortions through medicare. The woman tells the story of how she decided to carry the pregnancy to term and give her baby up for…

Because PP does not get the federal money in some kind of big open lump sum. They only get federal money in the form of Medicaid, by billing for itemized services already rendered. They don’t use it for anything except what service was provided, and often the stringent Medicaid reimbursement schedule doesn’t even…

My grandma had an abortion at age 55. Her doctor told her she had gone through menopause and was unable to conceive, but alas, she got pregnant. She had an abortion because she didn’t want to have a child at age 55, and be 73 when that child was out of the house. Her doctor wouldn’t perform it for “moral” reasons. She…

You aren’t required to like it.

And you would at the very least support a woman you fucked having an abortion. Don’t fucking lie to me. You expect me to believe you’d talk her out of it, pay for all the prenatal expenses, and raise the child by yourself if she didn’t want it?

The justification for the abortion is not to correct a mistake. It’s to prevent the birth of a child the women were in no way able to care for in the way they would want to, and to avoid the effect of an extra mouth to feed in an already struggling family. Children should be wanted, not a punishment for a sexual lapse.

9 months is an EXTREMELY long time when horribly uncomfortable, avoiding the long list of things that can hurt your fetus, and undergoing very expensive and frequent doctor’s appointments. Never mind all the trauma that birth the birth can visit on your body. But, hey, as long as someone out there wants that baby we…

Why shouldn’t abortion be used to correct the mistake of unsafe sex? If penicillin can be used for the same? Who died to make you hall monitor of parameters of mistake corrections?

An abortion is an abortion. If you think they can be used in cases of rape and incest then you are okay with abortion full stop. The only reason to stop there is to “punish those dumb sluts.” Ammirite?

Juice is juice. It’s not really nutritionally different than soda. It’s like you’re splashing ginger ale in her drink. Yes, she’d rather have juice but she’d also rather have cookies for dinner. Just because she has a preference doesn’t mean you have to accommodate it. She’ll be fine if you just give her water.

What about “infused water?” A couple of cut strawberries or some chunks of watermelon or pineapple make water so tasty and I don’t think they’re putting a ton of sugar into the water.

Adoption is an alternative to parenting, not pregnancy.

And there’s already a foster care system that needs to be severely overhauled so that kids that end up there and in limbo due to their biological families getting chance after chance to keep fucking up, can actually get adopted out into stable homes.

Also keep in mind that kids probably don’t need as much liquid as we think they do. My doc told me the constant pressure to drink can get a little silly since kids will instinctively drink well before they are dehydrated. What you’re doing sounds find, but I bet if all you offered is regular water she’d drink it after…

The anti-choice garbage people who make women carry unwanted babies to term can die in a fire. I’m pregnant right now and it’s FUCKING HARD, you assholes. This baby and his older brother were both planned, and it’s still so, so hard to be a mother. I looked at my husband the other day when our 2 year old was having a…

And the fiber actually slows digestion of the sugar so you don’t get it all at once when you eat the whole fruit.

I watched a documentary, I believe on HBO, that filmed women’s stories as they went through the process of trying to have an abortion, as well as a few of the people who work in clinics and one of an anti-abortion protestor. One story really floored me as one woman in her 30's traveled from Missouri across the border…

Folks are out here really struggling financially, mentally, and emotionally just trying to be a person. Some don’t have running water, they have no support.

Planned Parenthood receives both private donations (a ton of them!) and payment from the government in the form of Medicaid reimbursement and federal family planning grants. The argument for why Medicaid reimbursements shouldn’t go to PP (even for other procedures) is that money is fungible—all the money goes into a…

What do you mean? They are privately funded. The funds the government is refusing to provide are the normal reimbursements that they are usually required to give for cancer screenings, fertility treatment and other non-abortion medical care.

Am I wrong on this one?