The number 50,000,000 reflects the estimated number of abortions since Roe v. Wade. My question was a rhetorical effort to expose their true intentions that you noted.

The problem with this tactic is that it allows the anti-abortion activists to write-off all pro-choicers as dicks who think it is funny to name a "dead baby" POUND SAND INTO YOUR ANUSES.

What the what??!? Am I not getting a joke? (That is not a rhetorical question!)

So perhaps this is over simplifying the discussion, but if it is a serious area of study, why don't schools like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, CalTech have "Geography" majors.

I don't know it is true. But it is the most fucked up part of the paragraph OP quoted. If one was to provide commentary on the fucked-up-edness of the assertion, that wouldn't be the part I left out.

The article says it did. Whether it really did I suppose is another question.

Poli Sci is a real major. Global Studies makes me raise my eyebrows. But how do you major in Geography?

I agree with your reaction, but I actually think you left out the most fucked up part, which is forcing the remaining girls to perform oral sex on their big sorority sisters.

He was in the foster care system for the first two years of his life until he began living with his grandmother.

It was a needed rebellion against the frosted pink lip gloss we all wore in 1989.

Revlon Toast of New York? Makes me feel like it's 1993 all over again.

I often look through the comments when I can't process my reaction to a post to someone who can thoughtfully articulate my feelings. But you really summed it up best.

I had no idea how old Pharrel Williams was. He is older than me (by a hair)?!? I thought he was 25.

Joyce DeWitt is going to be back on TV!??!?! Talk about burying the lede...

I'm sure google or the original article could confirm, but my understanding is that very few men are entering obstetrics these days.

It is hard to explain to kids in a way they would understand and also for teenagers to listen to anything an adult has to say about sex. But I just want the kids to hear it. They might make the same mistakes as I did, but maybe they'll be better prepared for the fallout.

Thanks. But how to get a teenager to listen to his or her mom? That's the question. I don't actually need them to agree with me, but just to understand what I'm saying.

My mother was a hippy and she taught me to have a very casual and relaxed attitude toward sex. Which I appreciate in theory and still ascribe to, but I needed more balance. She didn't understand, and I didn't until too late, the slut shaming that is endemic in our culture, particularly in high school. Plus in…

The law is from 1696 and has hardly been changed since. So it isn't about abortion. It is about some literally Puritanical slut shaming:

As terrible as this story is, they are burying the lede, IMO. The law specifies out of wedlock, meaning if you conceal the death of a child in the context of marriage, there is no crime. The law was only changed to include fathers, rather than just mothers, in 1977. Boston.com covers the backstory of the law.