A general, state-wide outlook that pregnancy is this minimally invasive, non-life threatening condition that is no big deal for women to go through might lead to ignorance of all the things that can (and DO) go wrong.

I wholly agree that we ought not jump to conclusions, but I am confounded by the argument your quote suggests. They appear to be conflating birth control with prenatal care. Because it seems very straightforward that loss of access to pregnancy check ups would increase the risks of giving birth. What’s more, I’d think…

This was a while ago, but I once read a story (I think on NPR) talking about how the maternity mortality of the US was the highest in the industrialized world. There were no clear answers as to why because, as I remember it, there was (and I assume still is since I haven’t heard differently) no standard of how…

Also, can I just add here that maaaaaybe the women who would actively seek to prevent pregnancy in the first place (but don’t always have the financial resources to do so without these clinics) are a good judge that pregnancy may not have the healthiest outcomes for themselves?

Okay, so lack of access to prenatal care means less health care for both mothers and babies. Which means that preventable health issues are not prevented and non-preventable issues are not managed to make them, you know, less deadly.

Can we use some copies to give thousands of paper cuts to Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick? (The smug, Texan assdingle Dan Patrick, not the smooth, sports reporter guy Dan Patrick )

I would like to print out multiple copies of this report, roll it into a tube, and smack it across Rick Perry’s face while shouting “BAD PERSON! BAD. PERSON!”

as an adult i now see the justin bieber youth=hotness thing he had going on. reminds me of k.d. lang saying Justin Bieber was a really attractive lesbian.

This post hurts me.

Aw, how quickly stupid people forget. I wonder if this ignorant shit realizes that Trump opposed displaying the confederate flag until quite recently. Then again, I can’t fathom why these rednecks think a born and bred New Yorker would be in any way in agreement with their backwoods ideology.

I had honestly assumed that all Trump rallies were draped in Confederate flags.

Let’s be honest, though; the South is overrepresented in Congress in relation to its population, giving it disproportionate power, and tends to use that power in not-so-good ways. As a New Yorker you don’t think a lot of people in the South denigrate people like me?

Honestly, their ads are so pervasive that I’m not completely convinced you’re a real person and not a plant. I was looking up ‘appropriate travel shoes’ and suddenly they’re flooding my pinterest and facebook feeds. It’s only a matter of time before they find me on my other social medias. I’m kinda scared and I still…

A small bit of good news: the rubes aren’t even buying it in the numbers that they once did. This pic was taken at a Trump rally yesterday, and I think it was the same rally this piece’s about.

Every time I hear that phrase, I think “Rise again and do what, exactly?” Economically speaking, what with the boom of the Sunbelt and the decline of industry in the north, the south has already risen again. So what else are we talking about here?

Apparently all of them except Zodiac. He’s still holding back his endorsement.

Best quote of the games. After all the comparisons to men, she nails it. "I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I'm the first Simone Biles." Love her!

Goddamn right she is! I bow down; there are days when stepping up on the curb is hard for me. Splits in the air? Forgettaboutit!