I will reserve judgment until the primaries, but if Biden is ultimately the candidate I will hold my nose and vote, as I’ve done for much of my life. If Trump wins a second term, I would not put it past the GOP to anoint Ivanka as his successor in 2024. We know he’s got dynastic delusions. You can laugh, but a decade…

Right now he’s running on a combination of name recognition and Obama nostalgia. People need to realize that he’s not Obama, and while he may have supported Obama as VP, he’s significantly to the right of Obama, which is partly why he was chosen, since Obama was seen at the time as the more liberal contender (and…

And like other illnesses, sometimes depression is harder to treat than others. One person might respond well to the first medication they’re given, another person might try a dozen without ever finding one that works.

Fellow Belgian resident here - I’ve only had experience with the general medical system so far, which has been generally good. Sad to hear that the mental care network is not great.

My god 50 euros an hour sounds like a dream

I’d like to thank you for not once using “pro-life” in this piece. I’ve mentioned this on a dozen Jezebel pieces over the years, begging writers not to give anti-choicers that language, which they coined to sound “compassionate.” Nice to see language IS important to some.

I’m heartbroken for this young woman and her family. All the suffering she endured in her short life. That it had to go so far for her to find peace.

My grandma went to the doctor when she was in her late 20's for a physical for her new job. The doctor listens to her lungs and heart and then puts the stethoscope up to her stomach and tells her she’s pregnant. He can hear a heartbeat .

The question of language is difficult because both sides of the debate seem to be of the opinion that if they use the other side’s terminology, they’re ceding valuable territory. Personally, I think we’re sometimes too insecure about the American public’s “range of complex feelings” to the point where the pro-choice…

It’s true. I’ve since moved to Belgium, not much difference here. I needed my womb out, fantastic care, paid something like 500 euros for the whole operation with care before and after, and am doing great. Seeking help as an adult with high functioning autism, forget it. I’ve found a great therapist at leat, but I…

Having been trough the GGD, the publicly funded mental health service in the Netherlands, it stinks. Fysical health care is free and very good, but if you have a mental illness your only real option is pay for therapy in private. If you can’t that’s too bad- the GGD will only briefly hospitalize the most severe cases,…

I missed nothing. You are making massive assumptions about a situation you know nothing about. You’ve decided that a) Dutch medicine sucks b) They just said “welp, we tried shit, let’s let her die. Both of which are BS.  

The fact that her parents and physicians simply allowed her to die when they could have saved her is important

I have a deep feeling in my heart that I need to kick him (and all other rabid prolifers) in the head until they lose consciousness. Does that mean I get to do it? 

Why let something as silly as facts get in the way of of a righteous agenda?

In my heart I’m a multimillionaire so someone get me a gold-plated toilet, already.

Perhaps it doesn’t matter so very much how she died but that the trauma of having been raped twice in her youth generated such horror that she could no longer see her way clear to live.

God, it is so depressing. And how blatant that facts don’t matter. To actually admit that it is made up but justify that it is “in his heart”.

We’ve been dealing with stupid claims like that for years.

Like the current ambassador to the Netherlands who claimed for years there are areas where people are getting killed in the streets by muslims. Nobody in the US every questioned him about it, it wasn’t until he got to the Netherlands when he finally got fact ch…

“It’s a matter of what’s in his heart. He’s a strongly pro-life person.” What the fuck????