It’s as clear as day you don’t understand risk pools, much less the very basic concept of insurance, as it relates to total costs. We — humans of all ages and genders — benefit enormously not just when we collectivize risk (the basic idea behind “insurance”) but when we all have health care. It’s called herd coverage:…

I’d take off the last 4 words.

That depends: is the risk of racking up major claims being born a woman? Women’s healthcare costs are higher largely due to pregnancy and birth (a societal benefit). Charging women more on the basis of their gender is pretty clearly discriminatory.

So, yes, the birth itself will fall on the mother (Which at some point a man had to be a part of, but let’s leave that out for now). However, anything that is charged to the “baby” can come from either the mother’s OR father’s insurance for first 30 days.

So anything that happens after birth (Which from my experience…

At least the Dems have a positive impact on the well being of the country not just those with the money. Republicans used to want small government to reduce wastefulness, now they just want to clear the road for special friends of dying industries with a big checkbook.

It turns out that if you position yourself as hardline free speech advocates and end up becoming the dumping ground for the stuff that’s too shitty for Reddit, the number of advertisers willing to work with you is basically nonexistent.

There are four rankings of classified information in the American intelligence community. Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, and code word clearance. The information that President Trump divulged was considered code word clearance-level intelligence, and thus it was above the Top Secret ranking in clarification.

GOP: “It took a lot of work and luck for us to gain control of the entire government, and we aren’t going to squander this opportunity listening to constituents. Telecoms and ISPs have been paying us a lot of money to get this consumer-protection legislation trashed, so it’s going to be trashed. End of story.”

Someone please explain to me how this is “Making America Great Again”. Because this seems like yet another Trump-driven scorched-earth policy of simply trying to undo everything Obama did. Protect the rich and the corporations and fuck everyone else.

Since you seem reasonable enough for me to ask a sincere question and anyone I know who is pro-life is objectively a moron (unrelated to them being pro-life, I know plenty of pro-choice people who are stupid too, just not all of them because I have a larger sample size), if life begins at fertilization, what do you…

If you consider a newly fertilized egg to be a human being, then remove it from the host that it is infecting. Emancipate it. Let it stand on its own.

I wonder if they’ll have to finally be honest and just come out and say “We don’t like that women have control of when and whether they have children?”

Then how about advocating laws making it illegal for a man to impregnate a woman against her will?

God forbid you should have to think rationally about unintended consequences when you violate the laws of nature and defend them with intellect.

I think that’s the position of many pro-Choice advocates, really. It’s not an easy choice to make, but it’s the woman’s choice to make, however hard it might be.

If you don’t want to use them, fine. Don’t. Just don’t force your religious horseshit onto the rest of us. I find it hilarious that someone who believes in vicarious redemption through human sacrifice also thinks killing a cluster of cells smaller than the head of a pin is murder. You disgust me.

Remember: This is the same mindset that caused a GOP lawmaker to state that good people don’t have pre-existing conditions, therefore those should not be covered by the ACHA.

Rationality?!? Anti-abortionists want you to exercise moral restraint and discipline. Any pill or procedure shortcuts morality and cheats God. That a wanted or unwanted child is born is immaterial, the child is a result of your morality and your attitude towards God’s teachings. That result needs to be protected as…

and might even be a Plan B that doesn’t piss off anti-abortion advocates.

Well, I guess I haven’t said this in a few days: