You are aware of the fact that scheduling issues specific to a certain clinic are in no way an argument to support mandatory waiting periods, yes?

Except that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about mandatory 24+ hour waiting periods that have no basis in actual medical need and constitute undue hardship on many women who seek abortions.

There is no need to throw one set of women under the bus for the sake of the other, which is what waiting periods do in your scenario. A woman who is not at ease with her decision is under no obligation to go through with it, whereas a woman who is at ease is forced to dither with these restrictions.

What needs to change is the myth that abortion necessarily means a traumatic experience for women, or that women are not capable of deciding it for themselves based on their own reasons.

No. Abortion is not an emotionally charged issue. You are misreading peoples' reactions and arguments against you. Bodily autonomy for women is an emotionally charged issue, because many of us feel ours is being denied by legislation such as waiting periods.

That abortion necessarily needs to be a big emotional ordeal is a fucking right wing myth. Please stop perpetuating it. Also, waiting periods put more of a burden on clinics that have budget or availability problems, they don't alleviate them. To say nothing of the burden they put on poor women in areas with few…

Yeah, no, sorry but that is not how things work.

I had a student try to convince me of this and wrote in the course evaluations that I oppressed her by encouraging her to use CE. because it would force her to deny Jesus.

Please educate yourself, this is just so naive I have to believe you simply don't even know what you don't know about reproductive justice.

Well then by all means, feel free to wait 24 hours before making that choice for yourself. But kindly fuck off if you think you have the right to impose it on anyone else. Your anecdote is hardly proof that waiting periods are necessary.

So that was charming and all but you have to be a subscriber to actually read the linked article containing the information that is actually useful here.

Angela Basset is hardly the first three boobed freak around. My first thought was the three boobed hooker from Total Recall.

It's almost as if not all bodies work exactly the same. Sorcery!

Mermaid. I deeply regretted cutting mine. So now I always vote mermaid.

I actually remember my doctor telling me that there are very few bona fide food allergies. Most reactions are considered a sensitivity. This was when I sat in her office covered head to toe in hives and she thought it was a "sensitivity" to strawberries. So I'm not sure where that line is, medically, but I don't think…

My mother is this person. I refuse to order coffee for her.

Or you could just believe everyone and honor their gluten free request because their medical history isn't your business beyond "Can I have this gluten free?" If the answer is no, just say so.

I don't know you so maybe you are different, but I find it hard to believe that after becoming a mother anyone can be the exact same person she was before. Anecdotally, this has not been my experience with women I knew pre-motherhood. And abstractly, I just can't understand how it possibly couldn't change a person to…

Is being a parent not integral to your identity?

This is Jezebel, where sex workers are empowered feminists and it is prudish slut shaming to suggest otherwise.