MT also worked very hard to keep birth control out of the parts of India and Africa where her order worked. Helping extremely poor women not have more hungry mouths to feed would have helped them more than anything else her order did.

She took a lot of money from everyone ranging from regular people to infamous criminals and instead of taking care of sick people and buy supplies she kept it/shipped it off to the church. In fact when she started having health problems she flew to the United States and other medically advanced countries and saw the…

I do recommend searching the net because there’s a lot of information out there and a brief summation post by me cannot do it justice. But examples of places to spark your search include deliberately taking donations and using them to line Vatican coffers instead of actually caring for the poor as the donations were…

Not surprising considering the history and real legacy of Mother Theresa. Just following in her footsteps of actually hurting people instead of really helping. Luckily there are loads of amazing and cool nuns, but Mother Theresa and her order were/are not these people.

I think that’s police code for being an insufferable asshole while drunk.

I’m pretty sure I’ve uttered the phrase “Suck it, Trebek” on more than one occasion.

Okay, but I think a person who doesn’t want to use their name in an email address could still find a way to get around using an inappropriate username for work. Random letters and numbers like R81Jck would work. LickyLicky6969696969 does not.

No. I am not going to correspond with a professional person who lists that as their primary contact. Gmail is free. Make an account with a username that makes you look older than a fifteen year old horny person.

We have some super creative names where I work, and I love them. They make me happy. I will soooooo not hire someone who submits an application with “sweeeethotbabbi69@hotmail.com” as their work contact, though. That happens often, sadly.

I got Plan B without my parents’ knowledge when I was in high school and the condom broke (through a sweet pilot program, also in Washington State, way before it was available without prescriptions anywhere else). I love my Mom and Dad, but they are very much “ANYTHING BESIDES KISSING MAKES JESUS CRY” so they would…

Or maybe those girls are trying to get covert protection from someone preying on them, like, for example, a parent.

Exceedingly rare. Expulsion is certainly a risk, and migration and scarring was a risk in the older, no-longer-used IUD. I’m surprised that you know “several.” Those are crazy odds.

That sucks terribly. My mother actually ended up taking me to the Dr (my pediatrician who I had been going to since) when I was on my period because we were concerned I had blown an ovary or something.

The Take Charge program is also MUCH more than just an IUD - that’s one of the services the program provides, but there are many others. There is a lot of basic sex education and basic sexual health screening. I can see 10 and 11 year olds accessing the program for a number of reasons that have nothing to do with…

Can you imagine the crushing burden of struggling to provide for a family you can’t afford? I come from a blue collar background so I saw this a lot in my own family, friends and relatives growing up. Believe me, a lot of men were very happy about the pill.

I mean, I understand risk of surgery vs ease of pill, but it still makes no sense. And I also had remembered you referencing a female partner, so that undercurrent actually also reads, “we assume one day you will go back to men, as god intended.”

I was 11 or 10 when I was put on hormonal birth control because of MONSTROUS cramps that would make me throw up and make me unable to stand up for the first couple of days of my period.

My first thought is that maybe they had been abused by family members and were seeking STD screenings and b/c information.

Or alternately, ten year olds may be having sex, or more accurately, they may be being raped and they may be concerned about pregnancies from rape. That is not a reason to deny them effective long-term birth control that they can use without knowledge of their rapists. That is also not a reason to require parental…

The 10 year old might even have been a boy wanting a condom..and maybe for no other reason then curiosity, or to appear cool, look what he has in his backpack “just in case”....