especially when it only truly refers to the life of the child, as opposed to the woman carrying it - whose decisions have been overruled not only by the people making these laws, but by the very existence of the baby itself.

So if you’re at 22 weeks and they find that the fetus is pretty much a brainless blob that will probably die during a long and painful birth, you just have to suck that shit up? Fuck these people.

(Bonus points for anyone who guesses what all of those people have in common!)

I laughed. I cried. I updated my will.

Trump: “I am a crook, and I’m about to take you suckers...I mean voters for every penny you have!” Voters: “Woooo! Yeah! He tells it like it is!”

OK, but what does Donald Trump’s transition team have to do with this article?

Yes, “no problem,” because $300 million was spent to fix the problem.

The mechanic said that if I didn’t change my oil my car would seize up, so I paid him $50 to change the oil. My engine never seized. What a waste of $50.

He’s happy to see someone wearing a wig is in the White House.

To this day, I’m stricken with envy by my mom’s week-long hospital stays. Meals in bed and highly trained professionals to help look after the newborn? Yes, please. I’ll never forget coming home with my second child, 36 hours after giving birth, to a screaming toddler, a sink full of dishes, and the laundry I’d…

When my sister was born 40 years ago, my mom stayed in the hospital for the full allowable period, which was then a week. She had 3 kids at home, she wasn’t in any hurry to get back to us.

You might as well check out of the hospital and into a luxury hotel with a private nurse for the night.

Yup. They bunk baby with Mommy, claim it’s bonding, with zero regard to Mommy.

I agree 100%. You won’t get sleep for literally months. The fact that it’s denied you in the hospital is appalling. The first time around with BabyStu I had a terrible reaction to the epidural during my C-section and shook uncontrollably for days. I couldn’t get out of bed or pick him up (I could hold him when he was…

For comparison’s sake, my sister had a baby in March. They paid the equivalent of 35 dollars. And that was honestly just the cost of her husband also staying overnight because they live far away and couldn’t just drive home when they weren’t sure if they had gone in on a false alarm (they hadn’t).

This is actually the most interesting comment I’ve seen, and I was moved to google it. Adjusted for inflation, it would be $714.04 in today’s dollars.

Whats interesting is there now an increased concern of mother’s rooming with their kid the first night because the mom hasn’t rested from giving birth. I so so so wish this had been offered to me as I had been up for almost 24 hours when I finally got to my room. This big push for ‘baby friendly’ hospitals are leaving…

In 1952 in Mississippi, it cost less than $80 for the works. How much does this work out to be in today’s money?

This goes to show just how screwed up our health care/insurance system is in the U.S.

The only difference between Trump and my dad is Trump is far more extroverted.