From what I can tell, there is no exception for fetal abnormalities even lethal ones, but there is a life (but not health) of the mother exemption that specifically limits eligible dangers to physical ones. mental illness cannot be used as an exemption. Also, as in the article, the rape has to have been reported to…

To some Christians, if a man looks lustfully, he is an adulterer because he had committed it in his heart. It comes from Matthew 5:28. It's the beginning of the passage where men are advised to tear out their right eye if that's causing then to stray because it's better to lose an eye than burn in hell. I've even…

Because, really an 11 year old, even a mature 11 year old would have time adequately controlling a pair of rowdy preschoolers at the pier or the park or whatever without much or any accountability or guidance. It's one thing to walk them down the street where there will be other adults or watch them in the yard or the…

That's crazy. When I was that age, I was a latchkey kid and had younger siblings to herd, but it does not surprise me. My cousin has a 12 yo stepdaughter (she is short for her age), and she has had people ask her why she's not out there with them when the 12 yo is with the 7 and 4.5 yo in her own damn yard.

When I was 11, my grandmother would routinely foist my 4 yo cousin and brother on me. I walked them to the park, the pier, the store, pretty much everywhere. Granted, I wouldn't recommend doing it, but I don't consider it criminal neglect.

They look like my 5 yo niece's dream wardrobe.

It happens places beside religious organizations. Churches are just more up front about it. A woman I knew casually got pregnant while in her second year as an elementary teacher. My mom, who has been teaching forever, said she'd never get a contract. I told her that she was stuck in the past and that was illegal.…

I don't really believe her story at all, but in that part she seems to be defining "alternative"as having "piercings and tattoos," and those don't just go away when you turn 40, so I do know people older than that who have them

I am a vet, and I found the article frustrating as well. I don't declaw cats for nonmedical reasons (and I've never actually run across a case where it was medically necessary), but I thought the information was outdated and that she was distorting facts to make her argument when there are other arguments against…

Nope, cut, pull, knot, clamp, snip then do the other one. Tiny incisions, usually no need for stitches.

Okay, I don't do decalws, but I want to point out that this article is extremely misleading. It makes it seem like vets get trained in every surgery they do in practice in some special class at school, and just no one teaches declaws anymore. This isn't really the case. In vet school, you participate in a variety of…

No tips or anything for regular mass, but the family involved usually gave the altar servers something when they did funerals and weddings. It wasn't required. It was just a thing people in that parish did.

My father is a fanatic about tipping delivery drivers more than 20%. He is always talking about how they have it tougher than most servers, and people never remember to tip enough, so he usually tips them closer to 30% (or more) than 20%. As a bonus, at places where he is a repeat customer, he gets food pretty much as…

The nun who ran our Catholic school refused to let girls be altar servers (you couldn't get an excused absence for training and serving mass if you were a girl), and it was annoying. It was a boring job, but the boys got tips for serving at weddings and funerals, and the idea of getting money for skipping class when…

Because the duck has been castrated by the old, bitter hags who run the world, so it now has no need for pants...or something.

Yeah, when I read this, all I could think is that if that were me, the SIL would have been really lucky to not have to be rushed to the ER with scissors in her eye. I startle like a particularly edgy cat.

Or close both of them...all the the time. Cats like to target the eyes.

My cat gave it an irritated growl because he associates squeakies with dogs and small children.

No worries. I actually went to Penn, so I'm pretty familiar with CHOP. I grew up on the other side of the river in South Jersey, though, so the middle of PA was culturally more like the summers I spent in southern VA and GA than what I was expecting.

Yeah, I grew up in the Philly area and went to grad school in the city. I had to head into the state for certain rotations and for some clinical placements, and the difference was jarring.