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Whoa whoa whoa, hold up. Can someone explain to me how people think that Plan B and IUDs are abortifacients? My understanding is that they work by preventing fertilization. And I don't know what Ella is, so I can't ask about that.

Finding Kanye and Kim too tacky for words isn't pearl clutching, it's having eyeballs and a functioning brain.

I like how you're criticizing her sources without including any of your own.

It probably is. I'm Russian-born so culturally speaking, a lot has changed since communist times. My mom had an abortion, the other women in my family had abortions... my Russian friend's grandmother had something like 14 abortions. Then/there, the pull-out method was the major form of contraception and if that…

I'm really grateful for the development of Misoprostol and Mifepristone. The pre-20th century abortifacients were effective in varying degrees, but often came with toxicity issues (particularly pennyroyal).

Ah yes, that shit worked out so well in Romania!

Nah, it just the continued thrashing of the waning religious right. It's going to get worse until it gets better.

I want to note that the Soviet Union was the first state in the world to legalize abortion, way back in 1920. At the time, the new government was trying to do away with Orthodoxy because it was so closely linked to royalty and traditional, oppressive values - although abortion was made illegal from the 30s to the 50s…

Putin has been ramping up the Authoritarian stuff for a while and he is one of the types that absolutely loathes the way Russia has been bleeding influence and power since the end of the cold war.

There is also a political motive for this, Russia had only managed to reverse two decades of catastrophic male mortality and population decline in 2012. Its leadership has openly stated that if the country is going to recover and thrive (especially under Western Sanctions) it needs a fast growing and young population…

Right now the church in orthodox countries, at least in Eastern Europe, meddles in politics. In Western Ukraine or goes up to some episcopes supporting the nationalist party (who's more fascist than nationalist). In Russia, same church different episcopes is very chummy with the government. It's all very unfortunate,…

After the Soviet Union collapsed, so did the Russian fertility rate. There's been a lot of panic about Russia dying off because of this. The fertility rate has actually been rising steadily since the turn of the century and is now close to ours, but maybe those fears are still with them and they're responding by…

Russia just keeps getting better and better. And the weather's great, too!

I'm not a fan of religion, but I particularly and forcefully despise that in which I was born: Christian Orthodoxy. You will never meet a more whorish institutional structure, in which alliance with political tyrants is prized above all. The Orthodox leak resources from the impoverished state, and they continue to…

Ugh, fucking Haighleigh's mom didn't invite my baby Ryleighee to play group. Whatever, I hear she drinks during the day.

I was a Poli Sci major so I feel you. I mean, what is the point of my degree exactly? Spencer Pratt was a Poli Sci major. Enough said.

KAT DENNINGS THO

Yeah. It would be too tempting to go, "The theme of this party is: Your Shithead Parents Have Too Much Money."

I got into trouble with my sister's neighborhood moms. One of them threw a model party complete with audition tapes for 6 yr olds. I taught my niece to say "I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS!" so she did to the camera, my sister thought it was hilarious but the other moms were pisssed!