Uh, nope - I’m not an Alba supporter, but the person who was doing the face-saving and ass-covering there was Bill O’Reilly. Alba told TMZ reporters to “be neutral, like Sweden” and soi-disant “historian” O’Reilly scoffed that Sweden wasn’t neutral, it’s Switzerland that was neutral, and that she was stupid for not…

Is that not the most incredibly fucked-up rationale ever for not getting your tubes tied - because dead kids are totes replaceable, amirite? Plus, said to not one father who wanted a vasectomy, ever.

Did you have trouble getting a tubal ligation? So many surgeons, especially back in the day, outright refused to tie your tubes at a young age, especially if you didn’t have kids - they just knew you’d change your silly little mind and decide to breed like you were designed to do. Grrrr.

Yeah - you cleaned your cages and fed yourselves, too. You were the best lab experiment any doctor could wish for!

Hey, the word doesn’t start with a fricative for nothing. Besides, it’s all in how strong you finish, not in how you start.

98 years later, and this is an example of the kind of health care you can look forward to in Alabama? Jesus take the wheel.

SO true - that was a whole ‘nother preventable tragedy piled on top of the earlier one. She actually responded very favorable to Montessori schooling and probably would have been very happy if she hadn’t been part of a high-profile family with rapacious political interests, but the fact that she didn’t “fit” made her…

Apparently its head was forcibly kept inside her for 6 minutes (which is 2 more than you want to flirt with when it comes to anoxia and brain damage), but who knows how functional the umbilical cord was at that point?

Totally your fault. Have you no impulse control at all? Tsk, it’s irresponsible women like you with jackrabbit uteri that force doctors to look bad.

Ugh - more like an utter lack of a thought process, you mean. They didn’t have Apgar until the 1950's so there’s no real way to know how much of the damage from a compressed cord, or detached placenta, or just plain old suffocation that could result from this hideous scenario was detectable in Rosemary Kennedy’s case…

In 1918, Rose Kennedy was giving birth at home - and because the doctor was dealing with Spanish influenza patients and would have been out a nice fee if he wasn’t there when her baby was delivered, the nurse(s) attending her didn’t feel they had the authority to deal with the birth, so they shoved her crowning baby…

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Cameron wrote the screenplay. And yes, it is Godfucking awful, squared. This is because the man not only can’t write to save his life, but then he has a penchant for repeating the worst lines, just in case we didn’t get them the first time around.

And I hope the dim bulb playmate is banned from her gym every single gym everywhere, forever.

Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, about two episodes back Raymond said he gave cascara to them in place of an aconite poison when Claire found a jar of monkshood in his shop - and then the would-be murderer would attribute the survival of the victim to an intervention by a priest or whatever, rather than the substitution…

Yeah, but cascara isn’t in that category. Someone ingesting raw, unaged bark could conceivably die from a pre-existing heart condition or esophageal rupture due to prolonged vomiting, but honestly, it would be a real stretch to hope to kill them that way. It also makes no sense when there are so many more effective…

“Poisoned” is a broad term here. Unaged, grated Cascara segrada bark, which is what was put in her wine, is very bitter tasting and a powerful emetic - but aged, it’s an effective laxative/stool softener. It’s not an abortifacient per se, but obviously taking anything that causes violent spasms and muscle cramping…

No, it’s your comment that “couldn’t relate less” to this topic.

Why don’t you start lecturing at the nearest school about how cyberbullying should just be ignored because it’s ON THE INTERNET” and everyone can just choose not to look? I’m sure that’ll go over especially well with the parents of kids who’ve been driven to suicide by anonymous online comments and threats.