Posted an almost identical comment on FB before I saw yours.

Thanks, this was a really good read. Passing it on.

Yes, I’m very aware of why it’s done. I’m just disappointed in Jez for participating.

I realize it sets the narrative. That's kind of my point. Why must the narrative be more about the husband who lost his wife than the woman who lost her life?

True. It still bugs me as a title.

The title of this article is weird. Pastor’s Wife Amanda Blackburn? Why is she primarily identified by her role as someone else’s wife?

Yes, yes, yes. During chemo, I was on a combo of drugs that made pooping damn near impossible. The only way to make it happen was to use - well, my shower chair. But I used it in the same way one would use a squatty potty. It is such a superior pooping position.

Yeah, I should have said the alleged intent is good. Preventing fetal exposure to drugs is a good thing, but I agree that that was not the true intent of the law, and in practice, it just works to discourage pregnant women who are addicts to avoid seeking prenatal care.

Yeah, I should have said the alleged intent is good. I definitely agree with you.

preach

You have more faith in people than I do.

Preach. Saying condoms don’t work doesn’t keep kids from having sex; it keeps them from using condoms.

Ignore them. Your meaning was perfectly clear.

Yeah, the intent is good, but it just discourages women from seeking pre-natal care. That puts the fetuses/eventual babies even more at risk.

Most of our theatre kids were less peppy, more black coffee and cloves.

This made me laugh. - A theatre kid

I am an idiot.

I live for Jez’s Donald Trump descriptions.

She (imo, delusionally) believes the clinicians are wrong about that. In the NYT article, it says she claimed he reads 10 pages per minute. Which... No.

Yes.