Never trust someone who uses the phrase “trust me”.

Autonomy over one’s own body is a right.

Buffy was a show from simpler times. It’s self-preservation.

Anti-choice. That’s the proper term and one I’ve heard used a lot. I like it because it really gets at what the movement is all about: restricting freedoms. These people don’t give a shit about life.

This is not “crying wolf.” I understand what you’re getting at in terms of relative harms, but thinking along these lines and then telling people they can only call out the worst possible offensive behavior is a problem.

“I want to destroy you for your own good. Why can’t you see that, you ungrateful little shit that I effectively disowned.”

Did she really need to fuck him up with a coat hanger prior?

I agree with all of that and I share your concerns. But, it looks like you’re maybe assuming that the sympathy and outrage is for her court case situation. It isn’t - it’s for the fact that she didn’t have access to birth control, education, early OB care, or mental health care, any and all of which could have…

I’m pretty sure no one here is suggesting that she was right to do what she did or that she should be charged with nothing. The whole point of this thread isn’t “anything goes,” it’s prevention of this shit show.

I remember reading at some point that the reason the AMA lobbied for legal abortion was because doctors were literally traumatized by the parade of otherwise healthy young women bleeding to death in ERs from botched abortions. All these assholes smugly intoning “abortion kills” have no idea how many people die when…

this is what happens when help is not available.

She wasn’t sentenced to life. She was sentenced to 7 years TO life. This means she is eligible for parole after 7 years. That is NOT the same thing as a life sentence.

See, and here I was thinking someone else had to have tweeted it because I refuse to believe Donald Trump knows the words “paragon” or “virtue.”

This jumped out:

Choosing chastity because you dig that lifestyle is feminism. Choosing chastity because sex = sin and realizing that you like being chaste is Stockholm Syndrome.

Yeah I mean I feel like this lady thought she’d get more intrigue by a click baity title. There’s nothing inherently feminist about abstinence, in fact I’d say if your motivation is based on a commandment from a patriarchal religion then there’s an argument to be made that it is not feminist at all. I really don’t…

Feel free to disagree with me. Here’s my take. Choosing chastity as a woman isn’t feminism. Choosing chastity as a woman and having the right to not be judged as less or more of a human being because of it is feminism.

As long as the protestors don’t resort to violent action or harass his family and friends, I think this is an appropriate form of expressing anger about an obvious injustice. In lieu of a prison sentence, Turner will have to endure this humiliating protest and live with the shame forever, even if the actual…

I think its important to remember that not all sex offenders are automatically child molesters. As the article points out, one guy had consensual sex with his younger girlfriend and that put him in the same category as actual violent sex offenders. He never actually raped anyone except in the eyes of the law based on…

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.