I’m not sure that I think there need to be exceptions to slave labor not being ok. Small children’s clothes are easy to sew and a great thing to learn on!

Yes this! I hate most of tracey’s writing. This is just another example of it. What the hell is THE POINT of this article? People who want less effective birth control are trying by definition. She tries to be unbiased but it always shows in her work. Sorry for the rant I don’t know why I click her articles..

There’s also something creepy about the subtle “accidental pregnancies may make some childfree-by-choicers someone embrace motherhood” message. Sure, it’s true for some, but overall, isn’t giving women as much control over what happens to their body as possible for the best?

This is reading really privilege-y to me. There are some who have the privilege of accidental pregnancies being okay, or even welcomed. If that’s you, then don’t get an IUD. No one is making women get IUDs if they don’t want them.

About bloody time they updated some of these laws. Remember Savita? Of course you don’t. An Indian, Hindu woman in Ireland who died in 2012 after being denied a medically required abortion of a miscarrying foetus. She was told “Sorry, no abortion - this is a Catholic country”. She died of septicemia.

The racists complain as if for the last however many decades of TV, when a POC died, it likely wasn’t gonna get national TV coverage unless they were wealthy, a young girl, or unless it was a slow day. Meanwhile, lily-white folks’ deaths were often televised, especially if they pretty and female.

The coverage has…

Reading this article is so bizarre. I live in Indianapolis where this happened. And I can tell you the dialogue here has been EXACTLY the opposite. There’s been saturation coverage and the police most certainly haven’t begged for help. The Star assigned a team of its dwindling supply of reporters to cover it, even…