Abortion providers are experiencing an increase in protestors and harassment leading up to the election by a group called 40 Days for Life. They post up outside clinics for the 40 days leading up to the election every year, as well as the 40 days of Lent. As a former clinic worker, these folks forking suck.

The IUDs with a low dose of hormones have that benefit. The copper IUD (ParaGuard) has no hormones, but lasts longer (12 years), and you still get periods.

I think it will. Toward the end of my first one I started getting period-like symptoms. It took me awhile to figure out what they were because I hadn’t had them in 4+ years. Was bloated, crampy, cranky, and tired (thought the former 2 was chronic gas and reset my diet to no avail). Had a couple of light spotting…

Same here! On Mirena #2 and feel like the bionic woman. Haven’t had a period in over half a decade.

I was told that they often go after roadkill and that’s when traffic accidents happen with them. The DNR (when they were done holding me over the fire) told me that’s probably what happened, or it was chasing a rodent.

I’ll add to the Debbie Downer-ness. 5 years ago I thought I hit a hoofed animal with my car on the interstate. It came out of nowhere and blood was EVERYWHERE on my windshield, smeared even worse by the automatic windshield wipers, and I can still hear the THUD THUD to this day. Because I couldn’t see out of the…

If the kid is 6-7 years old, definitely old enough to have disordered thinking/eating habits. My sister’s MIL gave my 7 year old niece a fitbit for her birthday earlier this summer, because all of her friends already had them. Sis says niece will run laps around the house if she doesn’t have enough steps for the day,…

I developed an eating disorder in college because my boyfriend at the time had one and just never. fucking. let. up. about eating. He taught me how to binge and purge, purge after drinking, purge because you’re sad, purge because eating anything makes your gut want to throw it back up because you fucking purge all the…

I had a horror movie friend who I’d see the films with, because none of my other friends or partner like to see them. We just moved and I don’t have a new horror movie friend yet, so I went to see Don’t Breathe alone. It is a whole new level of exhilarating to see a horror film alone! I made sure to see it in the day,…

I think it’s dumb that people would try to recruit you to liking something you don’t like. But as a horror movie fan (not torture porn, actual suspense and fear-based films), I liken it to the same feeling as going on roller coasters. The anticipation of going, then sitting down for the ride. You technically know…

I love American Ninja Warrior, and I love letting kids of all genders be kids. This hits all of the things I love buttons for the day.

I was paired in a mentoring program with a gal from an inner-city Chicago high school who got accepted to a good University. She told me every day she had to field crap from her family making fun of her for being “too good” or simultaneously telling her to “enjoy” and “work hard” under her scholarship while also…

Did anyone else think it was messed up that Carl just looked in Liam’s pants to see if he was circumcised? I’ve long made amends with all of the characters’ behaviors, but that went too far for me.

I always wonder what the huge weddings are trying to prove. And if the huge wedding is the couple’s idea, perhaps they get caught up in all of the wedding planning and don’t think about anything else until its over and all they are left with is each other (and potentially a mountain of debt); if the wedding the from…

Meanwhile, my aunt, a mentally ill white woman, has interacted with the cops several times during episodes. Once she had a kitchen knife and was threatening her 20 year old daughter (my cousin), who called police and they helped her get out of the house and got my aunt to drop the knife, get into the police car, and…

The highlight of my college career was seeing Dean during a campaign visit to our campus. He was accompanied by Janeane Garofalo and Joan Jett; each did a set in their art and it was fantastic. Feels like yesterday.

Are you my sibling? This describes my parents to a T. The only addition is that my dad complains that my mom is a hoarder, yet his shit is everywhere too. They both buy other people’s junk at garage sales all the time, and keep saying they are going to have one of their own and have been “cleaning up” for it for about…

Yes! I did this to my dad just last weekend. He was like “did you just stop short!?!?” hahahaha. Purse and occasional dog-saving habit.

Memories! This song is so good, and I remember watching the video, but seeing it now... he is straight up manhandling her toward the end at the party. Getting between her and her friends, grabbing her arms and whipping her around, forcing her to go sit on the couch, crowding her space. That people could watch this 25+…

Dear Jezzies: I just asked my childhood BFF and my sister to be my bmaids. Before the official “ask” both were so excited and asking about wedding stuff, sharing ideas, etc. They also know each other and have no beef.