Oh god. A white man can go on national tv and whine about black privilege. He can’t see the irony of that.

...Romantic from early 19^th century, a time when painters started depicting fires, ruins, decay and painted people from the back in a rebuke to the sickening self righteousness of the Enlightenment and by extension as a Dada trying to destroy art.

Hmm. I am pretty divided. Yes, I can point to a couple things I’ve written where I simply became tired of fighting an editor even though I knew I was right or a piece became something I never wanted it to be and the framing was all wrong. When you find “the one” — the editor who inspires you and gets what you’re…

Hell. Go put on a white dress and elbow gloves tonite, go to your local bar and live it up like you’re fucking Jackie O.

I used an “abortion” drugs to end a non-viable pregnancy at 11 weeks, instead of having to dreadfully go day to da, waiting for my body to realize it needed to miscarry.

This is making me very uncomfortable, partially because this sounds like a deadly boring book, but mostly because I wore a white dress....and white elbow length gloves to my prom. Earnestly. In 1998.

Don’t start a land war in Asia, don’t bet against a Sicilian when it comes to death, and don’t bet against a Republican when it comes to ignorance.

So... this is good news? No caveats, no butts, no anything? I am so not used to that anymore. I know it's only a matter of time before cranky old white men rail against this, but for now I will sit back and enjoy this for just a moment.

The anesthesia law kicks in at 20 weeks, and you can’t have a medication abortion that late anyway.

Yes. The day I had my abortion I was sitting with a young woman who was in tears. Her partner had recently died in an accident, previously they had been trying to get pregnant and were successful. She found there were severe defects and a chromosome issue that would mean the fetus would never live, and her own life…

Oh buddy, it will. Not sure if you've ever had surgery requiring general but if you have and you get ahold of a itemized bill for it, you'll see that a pretty decent sized chunk of the overall expenses is going to go to an anesthesiologist. Don't get me wrong. Its worth every penny to make sure you have a capable…

Yea, it seems like the general idea here is to simultaneously make abortion dangerous and more expensive. The former limits the number of providers available, while the latter limits the number of people who can afford the procedure to begin with.

Wow. I’m reading through all of these and they’re gutwrenching. The fourth one contains a sentence that I think is especially hard to think about, and sadly there’s likely a sizable group of women out there who know how this feels:

True, but I would contend it’s none of my fucking business either way.

Unless I’m missing something, it seems like adding anesthesia to the mix also makes abortion exceedingly expensive.

Yeah, this is creating the problem that they’ve been supposedly solving. “Abortion doctors need admission privileges.” “But abortion is a relatively safe outpatient procedure.” “THEN MAKE IT MORE DANGEROUS!!!”

With the upside of potentially killing harlots?

And you can guarantee they’ll now require all doctors to have admitting privileges (if it’s not already a law), because of the danger of anesthesia.

because knocking people unconscious for no reason is dangerous

Quick reminder that most of the abortions performed after 20 weeks aren’t for women who changed their mind about having a child - it’s more often for women whose pregnancy is life-threatening or the fetus has severe abnormalities.