I really wish that Oprah had never brought Dr.’s Phil & Oz out of the grays.

As the mother to a gay son, what scares me more is Mike Pence. My son is terrified of this guy. He just came to terms with his sexuality and is scared beyond belief that electro-shock and what not from the history of Pence will be the norm. Not for him per se but seen as acceptable.

I’m imaging a nightmare world where President Pence has succeeded in banning all contraception and abortion (to him theyr’e one and the same). Due to the number of unwanted children being born, the federal government has hired a for-prison company to set up a chain of orphanages across the country, and Pence brags…

If you really want to froth at the mouth, just read this statistic. The GOP and many other men think childbirth is some money making machine. Well guess what, it isn’t. The average child support payment in America is $430 a month for two children. TWO CHILDREN. I would kill for that deal. The GOP and many men have it…

In my opinion I feel that sex ed is only part of it.
Having grown up in a rural area I think teenage pregnancy goes beyond just that though. A large part of it is also the result of limited opportunities. In many rural towns there are just no jobs- and many teenage women find the most economically viable plan for…

Boy do you speak the truth. So I moved from California to Texas many, many years ago and it was still in the modern age. Meaning, in California birth control was the norm and sex ed was taught. I moved here and I cannot begin to tell you how many people didn’t understand what can get you pregnant. I also live in…

I live in a place with high rates of teen pregnancy and I am often asked if I am the mom or the grandmom. At first I was offended; then I realized that by being 32 years older than my oldest child, I could easily be a grandma here. Yikes.

Judging from my own small town family members spread across several Southern states, I think a large part of the thinking evolves from religious fundamentalism. Once you get knocked up, welp, that’s that, Mindy Sue’s havin’ a baby, and can’t nuthin be done about it except start buying diapers! Even where there is…

I don’t think VeggieTart is saying urban teens are smart and rural teens are not.

Time to get my IUD. I mean, I’m not a teenager, but I’d still very much like to not get pregnant.

When I was living in a small town in Appalachia after college, people around town would regularly ask me why I wasn’t married or had kids yet. Most of the young women my age who lived in the area had at least one or two kids, and some of them had already been married and divorced. It was such a different world from…

I lived in a small farm town in Ohio for four years when I was a kid (10-14).

I moved from an urban area to one that was overwhelmingly rural. The graduation rates were exceedingly low, since many students would leave to work with their families (often crabbing or tobacco farming). There were few amenities and a noticeable lack of sidewalks, which was very confusing to me at the time.

“Once you leave the womb, conservatives don’t care about you until you reach military age. Then you’re just what they’re looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.” — George Carlin

Access is part of it; prevailing mores about sex where you live is probably also a big part.

I don’t think that Trump gives a solitary fuck on the issue. His stance on abortion has waffled plenty over the years, and I highly suspect he’s pressured a few women into abortions.

Douches that contained soapy water, etc etc were. It’s was of course a super dangerous process that risked infection and air embolisms.

This reminds me of those old mid century ads that would have something like “WARNING: THIS PRODUCT MAY CAUSE MISCARRIAGE, DO NOT USE IF PREGNANT” on there...

I like how it says what it does without saying what it does and without lying.

Hailed by some as the last great Puritan Christian of America, considered by most others an arrogant, draconian, pharisaical busybody who believed he had a right to nestle himself between the bedsheets of every couple in the country.