Yeah-and I get shit from family for living in the “inner city” but meanwhile all the stabbings and opiod problems are in their outer majority white neighborhood. I also get shit for not wanting a car but I can walk or bus everywhere, why would I want that extra expense when i don’t need it? But that would be logical.…

I can say with great certainty based on firsthand experiences that white rural Ohioans are fucking awful.

I thought that was an odd line to include, as well. It struck me as unnecessarily dismissive, including the previous sentence about privilige and Cody’s other works (teen pregnancy, alcoholism, um, demonic possession). I mean, post-partum psychosis as “slightly miniscule”? Eek.

I’ve definitely developed a weariness about any film or TV related to pregnancy since my first (6 years ago). For the first couple years it was, “Oh my god, this is so fake and unrealistic!” But then after 2 miscarriages, when I was pregnant last year (everything’s fine, she’s good), it ratcheted *way* up. Mr. Nom…

As someone who struggled mightily with postpartum mindfuck bullshit, I am actually VERY GLAD this movie was spoiled for me. (Wasn’t spoiled here, it was on a parenting group warning fellow moms to beware.) I can’t imagine how I would feel if I moved hell and highwater to get a babysitter (which I have never had) to…

“It is indeed another story about a woman whose problems are, in the grand scheme of things, slightly miniscule.”

Yeah if he’s using his privilege for good than I’m ok with that, better than going the “Instagram model” route all the white privileged kids seem to be doing, like every single famous white person’s kids are freakin models. I like seeing a person who actually works hard and acquires real skills.

I didn’t suffer from serious post-partum depression/psychosis, but I did go through a difficult time after my first child was born and I didn’t sleep for eight months. (God, that was hell.)

I was really disappointed with this movie. The second Tully became a twist and her existence is attributed to post-partum psychosis (an EXTREMELY rare condition), you cheapen every other effort the movie made to show how hard motherhood really is. Was her husband as much of an asshole as he seemed? Was Jonah really as…

But if you focus less on the mother and more on the child, what difference does it make? Are we so intent on punishing people to the fullest that we’ll sacrifice a baby’s well being, knowing that the detrimental effects of premature separation are long-lasting? Denying infants the ability to stay with their mothers…

As someone who spent some time in jail (though not prison), I can tell you how deeply the loss of their children scars these women. I heard stories of forced parental terminations, of relapsing into drugs when their kids are taken because they feel there’s no hope. Women passed around photos of their babies that were…

Being told that I would never conceive along with a faulty gallbladder left me without a clue that I was pregnant the first time until I was already 16 weeks along.

Grew up there.

Tell it! This is why that Iowa 6-week ban is so dumb.

Very true, and despite how hard I’ve worked to fill in my own gaps in sex ed over the course of my life (even having been raised in fairly liberal SoCal — we just do not, as a country, equip women with much info at all about our own bodies, and we certainly didn’t when I was in middle school 20 years ago), I honestly…

Many spontaneous abortions aka miscarriages go unrecognised if they occur before women know they are pregnant, typically in the first 4-5 weeks before ultrasound can pick up the pregnancy. Nature can do this without damage to your body or soul as the pro-lifers would like us to believe. If you had no reason to get a…

A 20 week old fetus isn’t going to breathe. That’s not really possible.

I respectfully disagree. If this happened suddenly to someone, they might be too panicked, overwhelmed and unequipped to do anything more about it, especially if they were already in that toilet. It’s possibly just a very tragic and traumatic situation for a woman.

Miscarriages can be very traumatic. People sometimes don’t even want to confront the fact they’ve had a miscarriage, even when they are in very supportive situations. I am hesitant to judge the nature of the miscarriage by the way in which the fetus was found.

I couldn’t say. It does underline, though, that we need safe, affordable, and sterile spaces for women to terminate pregnancies. In every hospital, in every city, in every state.