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They bomb clinics because that’s where they can find employees. Now they have employees’ home addresses. If there is anything we have seen in the last 6-8 weeks, it’s that terror doesn’t stop with internet harassment. Dudes show up to where they know people are and fucking kill them.

Almost like you are PLANNING when to PARENT by using their services??!!!??!!1

You mean my two favorite candies??

Thanks for taking the time to respond to all of these posts — I read your other ones above. It sounds like you and I agree that no one is excusing her behavior, but I am so surprised at the judgment and vitriol coming for the peanut gallery. Obviously an extreme breakdown in thinking and communication occurred for…

“In an apparently unrelated attack, the Daily Dot reports that Planned Parenthood’s databases were hacked Sunday night by a group calling themselves 3301, who released names and addresses of the company’s employees.”

Tell me why and how this isn’t defined as terrorism. People who work for stigmatized organizations…

I made this comment above, but I’m in the greys, so I’ll also post it here. I teach health courses to undergraduates at a large state university— I cover Safe Haven laws and 95% or more of them had NEVER heard of such laws. I teach about 1000 students per year. They also ask many “what if” questions that indicate even…

I teach health courses to undergraduates at a large state university. Every semester I go through the Safe Haven laws — I would estimate 95% of the students didn’t know they exist. It seems reasonable to adults that regardless of knowing about the laws you’d take a newborn to the police or hospital — but someone who…

The general yelling isn’t as bad as people yelling your full name. And your sister’s name (the one who lives in a different state). And following you home. And on a different day showing up at your house. And you move, and they show up at that house. And you live in paranoid fear that people you know and trust are…

Egg whites, tempeh, cauliflower, tons of nuts, nut butters, seeds, and lots of veggies. It was a bit limiting since I don’t like to eat the same thing every day — which is why I only did it hardcore for 4 weeks. But an example of a typical day would be like: Breakfast = coconut oil coffee, egg whites and a whole…

Try actual raw coconut oil, not extract. Blend it in with a hand-blender and it froths up like a kind-of latte. It’s really good, and a morning staple at our house.

My sig uses bulletproof to maintain ketosis as a cancer survivor.

My partner does the bulletproof diet and it works really well. We would use a hand blender to blend a dollop of grass-fed butter and a tablespoon of coconut oil into our morning coffee. The blender froths is up and it’s like a creamy almost-latte. I liked it a lot! Responding to above posts about what that does to…

Where do they think eggs come from? Inside a WARM animal!!

The refrigeration thing really hit me when I was 17 and visited family in a small town in Germany and they didn’t have a fridge. My great grandmother had meat, cheese, and butter on the counter and I threw a fit that I wasn’t about to get food poisoning and eat “warm meat.” She yelled something in German I didn’t…

Our city has an “emergency childcare” center. Parents can bring kids last minute or even overnight for a variety of reasons. Another child needs to go to the hospital, something happened to the home (fire, flooding, etc.), domestic violence situation — you name it. I wonder if a last minute thing like suddenly getting…

I’m not at all trying to discount your experience. Chill out. I *AM* a doctor of sorts, a reproductive health PhD who did her master’s thesis on BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS and has worked in clinics for over 12 years. Thanks for the link to info about BV. While having an IUD is one factor that can increase chances of…

I have never heard of the BV statistic you’re mentioning, and I have an IUD as do all of my friends. BV should actually have nothing to do with IUD insertion unless you already had an infection that was not addressed at the time of insertion.

I got my Mirena on my lunch break and went right back to work. Had never had anything pass through my cervix before, so it was definitely WEIRD, but not “the most painful thing in my life” like many people report. Also, the more someone fears something will hurt, the more it will — whether because you’re scared,…

I unknowingly bought a house in a neighborhood with mostly retired white folks. They get bonus points for half of them being same-sex couples who have been together 30+ years, so that is fun when it’s block party time — lots of great stories of reclaiming the gayborhood. However, the “neighborhood watch” email list is…