Everything about this story makes me livid, starting with their wanting to separate a family because "Marsha and I always planned to have five children". These abominations would split up traumatized siblings because it didn't conveniently fit in to their plans. That should have absolutely been a red flag right from…

"Marsha and I always planned to have five children..."

Interesting that Senator Cornyn should be such a stickler for procedurals and rules: He's one of the 47 signatories on that note informing Iran that any deal the executive branch might achieve regarding nuclear negotiations can be undone by the next administration. I.e. he's perfectly happy to break with protocol and…

So they want to force girls or women who have been trafficked into sexual slavery to give birth to their rapist's babies? Good job GOP immoral fuckwads for never ceasing to amaze me.

Good. I've said this before, and I'll say it again: a physical threat on the internet should per se be a crime and subject to prosecution.

The day I suck a man's dick for any other reason than because I goddamn felt like it is the day every single one of you needs to put a fucking bullet in my head.

I'm sorry you didn't get this explained to you at a more appropriate age, but the fact is that every abandoned baby has a biological father as well as a biological mother. (If you need help understanding how that works, try googling "human reproduction".)

Don't forget how the same people who limit poor women's access to birth control and abortions always go, "It's so irresponsible to have kids when you can't support them financially."

The first semester that I taught, it was at a community college outreach location in a very, very poor area. One of my sections was a night class, and over half of the students were women my age (and younger). They formed the most heart-warming mommy-study/babysitting group and supported each other through the entire…

Double star you if I could. I have an addendum to the baby box. The alarm is pushed, first responders, hospitals, yes. But it also triggers an automatic list of people who have denied women a right to choose, and they are asked to find/be a parent for the baby, since they care so much.

Poor people are perennially punished in America. Politicians get elected by promising to further dis-empower and disenfranchise them because so many Americans are too denial-filled to recognize that they themselves are one step away from being just as poor. They've been brainwashed to believe that they're somehow…

We had a few donors who would give us condoms to hand out at the drop in centre. I can't tell you how many volunteers would be shocked - SHOCKED - that we handed them out to whoever asked for them (I'd get most of the teens, and then they'd get a 5 minute sex and safety talk with me, since most were part-time sex…

Plus, the whole point of Geras' opposition is that they want the mother to take the baby to a Safe Haven so they can ask her about her medical care, try and ascertain why she's giving up the baby, see if there's any way to offer her financial aid so she'll KEEP the baby...and basically everything but letting the poor…

When I first saw the headline yesterday, I was hoping that they were going to start giving new parents something like the Finnish baby box. I was disappointed.

To #2 - this is becoming more and more true as we ramp up the criminalization of mothers and pregnant women all over the country. We'be done a great (awful) job of showing women that we will lock them up and throw away the key for any perceived transgression against the baby or pregnancy. Esp. in conservative states,…

baby boxes and hatches make abandoning a newborn too easy and fail to address the reasons that parents choose to abandon a baby

...baby boxes and hatches make abandoning a newborn too easy and fail to address the reasons that parents choose to abandon a baby (poverty, medical problems, isolation, etc.)

Karyn, would you consider adding AHA's symptoms of heart attack in women to the post? Confusion about the symptoms is a large part of why women are facing delayed treatment.

Yeah I don't even care that the van is pink. I like pink. But their excuse that they wanted it to be eye catching (yeah, obviously) is pretty weak - you know what else is eye catching? Yellow. Orange. Green. COLORS IN GENERAL. I'd be far, far more offended by the "kitchen table" comment if I were British. Go away and…