Elective inductions are not evidence-based practice, obviously, but repeat c-sections are - evidence shows that VBACs (vaginal birth after c-section) are risky for both mother and child, and deciding on a c-section early on can prevent the need for a much riskier emergency surgery when the mother is unable to give…

You make so many good points here, but here's another one that people often forget - doctors have their backs up against the wall when it comes to things like VBACs because of malpractice suits. That's really the long and short of it - we practice medicine these days in order to avoid being sued, and a lot of times…

Why is there a link for the lack of adequate prenatal care and the high rates of hypertension and diabetes, but not for the claim that an excess of C-sections are causing maternal death rates? In most cases C-sections are performed BECAUSE OF a pre-existing medical condition, like, for instance, hypertension, so…

Her mother is Fergie, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew. She's embarrassed the family in numerous ways before, but recently got caught trying to sell stories about her ex to an undercover reporter - and so the Queen has basically washed her hands of her. She was not invited to the royal wedding, and rumor is she was…

I see a nice fuck you to the family who banned her mother from attending.

I dunno, that gets so hard though. DEMAND something of your partner / hate women who don't have the body of Gisele, absolutely not. But I don't have the body of Gisele, and I certainly find guys with hot bodies more attractive than guys with guts. And I don't think it's ridiculous that my boyfriend, who does have a…

Yes, I agree! That book gets a really bad rap, sometimes, but I think it is actually really common sense and helpful - I can't count how many times I listen to girls say "oh, if only I hadn't done ____, he would still be with me / would have asked me out / wouldn't have cheated, etc." And that's not true. In the…

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Why is she smiling like that? Where's her salad?

Have you ever been to an abortion clinic? Because when I was there, I met three couples where the woman was sobbing because they wanted to keep the baby, but couldn't afford it.

You know, I know this is easier said than done, but I wish we would just not talk about this. Challenging these people and showing them "proof" makes it seem like it's a legitimate topic for discussion - it's not. If we just ignored it, the way we'd ignore something equally ridiculous - for instance, if someone was…

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Thank GOD they are not white actors!

Why is it necessary to wait for her to resign? If Republican leaders want her out, why can't she be fired?

Well, judging from your comments on the rest of this post I don't believe that you didn't know it was a racist term - after all, who were you using that term to describe?

Yes sorry, I actually knew that! I think they are actually often said to be smarter than humans, right? But all that Hail To the Chimp stuff was supposed to be a commentary on Bush's lack of intelligence I think.

I'm not talking about the particular Obama instances, which are pretty clearly racially motivated and are gross attacks where he is portrayed as inhuman. What I'm asking about is a more general, does the historical context mean that it is ALWAYS racist even if it's not a racial commentary. Like, I think Bush was also…

This woman is racist and should be fired - she clearly meant to imply that Obama was descended from chimps, that was why we "don't have" his birth certificate, and that has centuries worth of context that makes it an unbelievably racist comment, no matter what she wants to claim.

When she says "You're thirty, you can't afford to be picky," I think that's supposed to be an illustrative character moment - like, wow, who would say that, she's a jerk. Not something that's to be taken as truth.

Jeez, how shocked I am to see Jenny McCarthy promoting ANOTHER tidbit of harmful misinformation!