Because this country has set things up in a way that for many of those who struggle with deep poverty (which disproportionately affects trans folks), military service can be one of the only ways to get education, health care, job skills, housing, etc.

True. It was a...different...situation for sure but I don’t think it was entirely unheard of. So many women have different reasons for needing abortion services. I worked with a woman whose fetus developed with a fatal complication. This was a wanted child but it would never survive outside the womb. She had to walk,…

...but one of the more pernicious myths regarding abortion is that women who elect to have one were often irresponsible or lacked the ability to think ahead with regards to pregnancy.

It doesn’t apply in your friends case but I did want to lift up the fact that a significant percentage of unintended pregnancies occur to couples where birth control was used....even 99% efficacy means a certain percentage of individuals will end up pregnant.

I live in DC and had to ride the train with multiple groups of corn-fed, washed-up potatoes masquerading as children on “pro-life” school trips. All of the school trip participants I saw were boys... guess they think educating women ain’t a good look for them

Wow, thank you for this.

Wait. Didn’t he campaign and endlessly repeat how he would be “strong on the military?” How would preventing people to willingly serve in the military be considered strong?

This is a test balloon. They have more Draconian edicts on Trump’s desk.

The last Halloween costume I had was a black and white harlequin. My mom made it, and it was perfect. I was so proud to wear it to school for dress up day. Except I didn’t get the memo that in 6th grade, you don’t wear “real” costumes, and I also didn’t get the memo that no one else was going trick-or-treating. My…

My mom sort of ... devolved into a Fox news type starting about 15 years ago, so I think I had a better idea than many folks who didn’t have an up-close look at the weird, hateful crap going on in the crazy bubble. That’s why I started doing (not as much as I should have, clearly!) activist work. If you didn’t see it,…

From their perspective (NOT MINE), they are teaching kids that murder in all forms is wrong. Kids have a specific sense of right & wrong, don’t see nuances, don’t understand the racial/economic politics, are not taught about pregnancy by rape or maternal mortality and assume that if a “good” person needs help they…

I am sooooooooooooooo pissed off that sanctimonious forced birthers drag kids en masse to such a pro-theocracy event. What exactly are they teaching when they do this, besides “Sorry, girls, your body is just a baby oven and you shouldn’t bother yourself with thoughts of a pesky career”.

I just finished their book of the same name Shout Your Abortion by Amelia Bonow and Emily Nokes with forward by Lindy West. It is a surprisingly beautiful coffee table book that features over 40 first-person stories (with photos and names, WOW!) of people who have had abortions. I’ve worked in abortion care for over…

What do these people say when you ask them how much money and effort they give to helping young single mothers who choose to keep the baby?

Yep, I work at a public library (in Canada) and we start every program, event and most meetings with a similar declaration.

As a community organizer, I start every public and private event here in Oregon with:

I am here for this nuanced breakdown of Nazi Germany political history.

The better question is this one, which I’ve seen elsewhere.

Not to mention that Hitler wasn’t the lone originator of the racist/nationalist stuff that poisoned Germany. There was a lot of dissatisfaction with Germany’s declining state going back decades before Hitler became a big deal—in fact, he was introduced to those ideas right before WWI. Germany after the Treaty of…

I’m only 30, and it’s absolutely stunning to me how oblivious the women in our own generation are.