This kind of bullshit in-fighting is precisely why the conservatives — who, despite all their faults, are ace at holding their noses in the interest of presenting a solid front to their opponents and attaining their goals— manage to get so much fuckery done while the liberals argue about everything under the sun.
A lot of the privilege criticism about the strike seemed to be a race to be the wokest of them all.
You made this whole agonizing article worthwhile with this one simple, very obvious, point.
This is what exactly what is going on here- negative marketing. I am a physician and once every few months I encounter a patient who needs to tell me about the medicine ‘really’ works. About how “doctors make money off people being sick, not getting better” but “healers just want you to get better”. Now there are…
You are my hero.
My niece is a pediatrician. She’ll co-author it with you.
This is of course true. We should keep in mind that most if not all of the loaded terminology is being used in an honest way. Though they are certainly trying to steer the childbirth industry the way of the midwives, this doesn’t mean that they are doing it at the behest of the profit motive. I imagine they get into…
My cousin tried home birth for both of her babies, with different midwives. Both times, she ended up in the hospital to have the baby after long and complicated labors. The second time she got there by ambulance. It works for some people, but it’s not for everyone. The hospital has more resources to keep you and…
I completely agree. I had a CNM at a hospital for my first LD. In the end I still had to have a c-section but I felt like she did everything she safely could and she stayed with my husband and I in the OR during my surgery to support us and talk us through it. The OB on call was awful but that’s another story.
Most cops became cops to get bad guys, and they will always err on the side of assuming that a maybe-bad guy is a bad guy. And it takes a special breed to go into ICE enforcement, since by definition every arrest you make rips a human being away from his life and family. Yeah, don’t expect anything but quickened…
I don’t understand anything about this situation. A woman who was 8 months pregnant was bleeding and FIVE FUCKING DAYS later gives birth in her jail cell? In five days, they couldn’t have googled it and realized she needed to go the hospital? Do they not have a protocol for this type of thing? How does this shit even…
Another thing lost in this whole shit sandwich story is the $10K bail for driving on a suspended license. Granted, I do not know all circumstances, but in what world is this an appropriate amount?
We apparently live in bizarro world where people end up in jail with 10k bonds for *driving on a suspended license*.
Seriously, she had no business being there. Impound the car if she’s a dangerous driver, stick an ankle monitor on her, whatever, but jail? FFS. What a waste of money.
“Again, do I like to have babies born in our jail? No,” Wickersham said.
That your parents made for you, out of desperation.
Trump is Javert.
congratulations to Elizabeth Warren on her 2020 campaign slogan
I actually felt like a total jerk because I’m about as pregnant as she is, and I kept telling my husband all during the first half of the season that I thought she was pregnant. She was in loose fitting clothes, sitting down or hidden behind objects more than usual, and sometimes Gina would disappear from episodes…