However, the British anti-pedophilia tabloid-fueled incandescent googly-eyed rage is not so rare. They're absolutely pedo-bonkers here.

Actually, it is less risky than birth. The hardest part of a D&C is finding a doctor who knows their way around one, and who will actually perform one.

A delivery is much rougher on the woman's body than an abortion, is the thing — even very late in the pregnancy. If the woman in question is in very weak health, then yes, she has every right to worry that the strain of the delivery might put her in danger, and she has every right to do whatever it takes to improve…

You said, "No, you misunderstand my point - what I'm saying is that the child can be delivered rather than aborted. A woman should never be made to carry a pregnancy that threatens her life." You said, "So a 32 week pregnancy is a fetus and we have no obligation to them? What about 38 weeks? Medical ethicists…

No. No no no no no. Granted, I'm a lawyer not a doctor, but I absolutely do not agree that delivery should be forced in order to prevent the death of a fetus if the mother does not want to deliver at that time or by that method.

If the intervention is to the detriment of the mother's health/life- no you don't have an obligation to the fetus even at 40 weeks. The woman in this story died prematurely because the state decided that her non-viable fetus was of more value than her life. They could have let the pregnancy continue as she wasn't…

A woman should not be forced into a surgery she doesn't want either. A C section is major surgery, just because they are common, doesn't mean the risks should be ignored.

I will hold that I know (always) that a woman is a person. A fetus (a medical term) is a human to be. I don't think that you or I necessarily have a better grasp or handle on the safety of the fetus than the woman who is carrying that fetus in her uterus. I feel we have an obligation to women to allow them to make…

I'll get shit for this, but at 23 weeks can the fetus survive without medical intervention? If not then I argue that it is not viable. Allowing a fetus to develop outside the womb doesn't take away the fact that it would not survive otherwise.

Does not matter. The life and wishes of the mother are key. If a woman is likely to die in an attempt to save the fetus and does not wish to take that chance, her desire to optimize her own survival should always win.

how has she harmed the feminist movement? By owning her sexuality and being in charge of her career? For being one of the most successful rappers in a predominately male industry? She's done problematic things, as we all have, and I just posted a comment about how offensive the only video is but as far as feminism I…

Just imagine that all of a sudden people might decide you didn't deserve to exist and you get fired from your job, get attacked in the street, and then get dragged out your house and shot while your neighbors stand by curiously and you wonder which of them called you in. And if you run to another country, they…

Israel is practising straight up Apartheid and has been for decades. I grew up in South Africa and it boggles my mind how more people don't come to that realisation. Israel was the only country in the world to recognise the racially divided "Bantustans" established by Apartheid South Africa because they saw in it a…

I wish that had been my experience with my bosses (who have 2 and 3 kids), but unfortunately it hasn't been, unless "productivity" means getting someone else to pick up your slack and then taking credit for it. One would think parenthood does make you better at multitasking and organizing, but it hasn't worked for…

Apple is Gwyneth's daughter's name, so that makes pefect sense. I also don't think GP has beef with Martha. Martha's just being a grump.

You know, I never got that Liz always got the blame for that one. Isn't it possible that her dead husband's best friend swooped in when she was in mourning and at her most vulnerable? It was his one and only chance to get with someone like her, and she was the shit at the time and he was a lame pop singer. He did…

But it was your responsibility to determine that "what HE was doing was wrong!" So you can determine his moral code, but not hers?

Its true. She wasn't famous for it but that is what she did before the sex tape got her name in every tabloid.

Er, that is actually true. She was a big ebay reseller back in the day, pre-sex tape.

Man. It's really not too often you come across a literal first world problem.