I’m so sorry to hear that. I think a reason I have nightmares about it is a woman I work with went through that same thing. Her (now deceased from suicide) Ex’s mom calls and texts her all the time, 8 months after his death. The mom will even get drunk and come by her house and she doesn’t want to press charges…

My favorite musical!

This video made me feel old not only because of the absolute ignorance of all of the couples, but the very awkward exchange complete with upspeak and unease all around. It makes me very glad I’m not in charge of hiring 20-somethings for jobs.

This harassment of Grande is hitting me very hard due to a personal parallel. I left a shitty relationship of 5 years due to the substance abuse issues and chronic unemployment of my partner. I worked 2 jobs to support us, he refused to get help, wouldn’t apply to jobs that were “beneath” him (or would apply, get an…

I worked for them in a state where they DID shut down several locations because of funding cuts like those discussed in this article, leaving tens of thousands of people with nothing in a 100+ mile radius in much of the state— no abortion services, either (not to mention the people who lost their jobs and their OWN…

Also, ask your public affairs friend how much she gets paid for all that exhausting work. Then ask how that compares to her colleagues in other states and at the national level. Then ask how much they pay their staff that works in their clinics and what their turnover rate is and why.

Make sure you specify exactly where you want your PP money to go, including if to a specific site/clinic and what part of their work. Money donated to PPFA sure as shit isn’t going to South Carolina.

Read downthread where I share I worked for them for years. I'm very aware of this.

How long have you volunteered for them? I worked for them for 4 years and they were definitely spreading that message loud and clear. By saying “only 3% of what PP does is abortion” as a way to lead into their other services (that you are saying volunteers should talk about), PP is saying abortion doesn’t matter or…

I snortled out loud (currently at a family dinner)

My boyfriend broke up with me the night before school senior pictures and I showed up looking like a red-eyed, swollen hot mess. I looked so terrible the photographer refused to take my picture, telling me I’d regret it forever. My senior yearbook has a “no photo available” in place of what should be my face. This…

Maybe if Planned Parenthood didn’t contribute to abortion stigma by saying “ONLY 3% of what we do are abortions!” and instead owned and celebrated that all reproductive health services are needed for a healthy and thriving community, there wouldn’t be so much traction for this kind of junk. I used to live in Iowa…

Those conservative white women have the money to get their abortions privately or abroad. They don’t give AF about the unwashed masses that need Planned Parenthood. Also “pro-life” people get abortions just like everyone else. I know because I’ve held their hands during their abortions and then have seen them back out…

And I’m saying that it isn’t cheeky to those of us putting our safety on the line every day to provide this aspect of care. Words have meaning.

Honest question: What do you get from being so sour to a stranger on the internet? Your comment history shows you only sporadically comment around here. What about this…

If it was an in clinic procedure, it was an MD. Some states allow PAs and advanced nurse practitioners to dispense medication abortion pills. Also lots of different careers work in clinics and with abortion patients, and in the field we are blanket referred to as “abortion providers.”

She is not describing an experience, she is describing a person. A person who went to medical school, who trained for years to provide medical care, who probably crosses picket lines of hateful people every day to do a job that few others in the medical field dare to do. People who want to shut that provider down,…

Maybe the interns will realize what a shithead they work for and seek another career path/person to work for. That’d be a nice consolation prize!

I understand the sentiment of trying to “reclaim” the term, but only people are that thing can reclaim a term. People who don’t work in abortion cannot define what people who work in abortion should be called. Look up “dirty work” and “abortion” and “stigma” in Google Scholar and see how many articles come up from…

Sign up for the National Abortion Federation email list and they will send you a link that connects you to your Senators’ phone numbers and provides a script to call them. I called both of mine this morning after watching the RBG film last night (highly recommend! Was free on-demand via CNN!) and discussing pre-Roe…

Read the article linked in the part about 32 weeks. I also recommend watching the documentary “After Tiller” about later gestation abortions, who has them, and why.