Omg. I live in Iowa and everything here is shit right now, so I might as well go find this place and feel “normal” fear instead of the ever-impending doom that we are now Gilead (see recent abortion legislation). I’ve lived in various states around the Midwest for the past 20 years and have never heard of this!

Feel free to dismiss the Gilead motherfucker who also replied to you. And your assumptions about other restrictions and lack of clinics are correct. I’m a clinic worker who drives an hour to work to help women and pregnant people get the care they want and need and are legally allowed to have, but for the patronising…

Kim Reynolds signed an abortion ban into law (not an anti-abortion ban). I WISH we could ban anti-abortionists! Also I live in this shithole state. 😤😤😤

OMG this video is painful to watch.

I think it was that JC always looked like a chiseled adult man. Our teen and tween brains couldn’t handle it. Too much hotness. Accessible vanilla blond hair blue eyed JT was more in our adolescent understanding of sexuality.

We must have dated the same breed of guy early on. I think about that often...how folks’ first significant others can set the stage for expectations moving forward through future relationships. Sets us up to expect to be treated like shit, because someone (usually a parent) treated that person like shit and they…

Preach. In college I had gained the freshman 45 and saw a nutritionist on campus my junior year. Looking back, she must have been in training or from Nutritionists R’ Us Online Universitee or something, because...

Yes, the volume of “clean” (hate that word, but can’t find an alternative at the moment) healthy food in a balanced nutrition plan is super high! My husband and I both stayed on a 6-week plan earlier this year but the prep time took forking for-ev-er and my day felt like it revolved around meal planning and…

Need some advice from you folks. A friend recently posted a long facebook rant calling out a woman, by name, for her rape accusation against the poster’s brother. The brother was put in prison for the rape for 5 years, was recently released after serving his time. The poster’s rant claims he was innocent and that the…

You cannot predict what people who don’t exist yet want.

This still does not address the point that this child WILL WATCH THEIR PARENT DIE EARLY IN THEIR LIFE. My original post was that children do not ask to be brought into these situations. All sorts of families are cool by me, but that does not negate the fact that it is selfish to bring a child into the world when you…

Thank you for this insight. Many people don’t have access to comprehensive hospice services and we can’t guarantee our families will when we are planning new human life at age 68.

If you could share your letter on your social media and ask friends and family in your district to also email, it was make a tangible impact. With thanks, Sex educator and clinic worker

Yes, let’s plan on future hypothetical marriages after being freshly married!

You are correct, we cannot predict the future of otherwise healthy people planning their families. It is guaranteed that someone age 68 has around 20 max, and much likely many fewer, years left. You are setting up your child to watch you die while they are still a child, guaranteed.

I didn’t say anything about single parenthood. And we can’t speculate they are planning that. If they have a baby now, that child WILL see it’s father die while still a minor. Statistically Gere has only a handful of years left but with extremely good health maybe 2 decades tops.

I’m sorry about your loss. But you know very well I’m not talking about otherwise healthy parents who have enough years left when they plan their families. Things and illnesses happen. Bringing a new baby into the world at age 68 is vastly different and you know that.

The Richard Gere, 68, “wanting to start a family,” if true, makes me mad-sad.

Wow. Absolutely love this!

And I really hope it’s Chicago. Fuck DC. Chicago and the Midwest need the Obamas more.