That’s tough work. I’m in the field further north and west from you. Thanks for all you do.

Calling it the “abortion industry” plays into their warped narrative that there’s a huge conspiracy going on. These same evangelicals are fighting school boards to axe sex educators and let them come in and tell 15 year olds that condoms don’t work, and that if PP tries to give you condoms it is because they fail and…

I work in abortion care and this comment has made me laugh harder than anything in a long time. Thank you for that.

Fellow PP alumna here; haven’t worked there in 8 years and feel like I’m still recovering from the daily stress. Coming to work to police blockades because there are bullet holes in the window leading to my office. Moving 3 times in 15 months bc protesters would follow me home and harass me. But, at the time, still…

Okay, i need to know how all of the tall ladies on this thread have strong enough cores and legs to wear heels! I am in full-body physical pain when I try it!

Thanks! I love all the tall girl and size 11 love on this thread! My bad back prevents me from wearing heels :(

Not worried about my height in the heels— being this tall has also gifted me knee and back problems :-/ :-(

Oh yeah, I love being an amazon, but my bad knees and back don’t let me wear heels anymore. I’m eyeball deep in birkenstocks (even their boots and shoes!), börn, naturalizer, and other orthopedic brands -- at least they are starting to have trendier styles!

Hi from a fellow size 11! But I’m over 6' tall so the heels are a no-go for me; I’d love a cute loafer with orthopedic inserts tho!

That, and we do things all the time we regret. People who have children regret it; people who place children with adoption regret it; people who have to surrender their children into the foster system regret it; people who get divorced and have to split custody regret it.... still, none of those things are being…

Hi, I work with abortion providers. While that data reflects people who take polls, it does not reflect the lived experience of people like me who interact with folks every day about abortion — patients, students, and random people on the street. While people may report “yes, legal abortion, sure, great,” we get…

Anti-Choice student organizations are going to college campuses using PP’s colors and font in banners that call the clinics unsafe, unregulated, and dangerous. One such org visited my campus last week and took up an entire sidewalk, the only one leading to one side of our student center. They passed out postcards for…

I didn’t say the teen in question didn’t deserve 2 days in jail plus the community service. I 100% agree that repercussions are important. I was agreeing with the previous commenter that we shouldn’t label them sociopaths, as that is a real condition that should be taken seriously and not thrown around for shock…

“label a 16 yo a sociopath”

I was once a teen who went with other teens to jump off of things we shouldn’t have been jumping off of. This sounds exactly like something that went down on one of our “cliff jumping” excursions -- a friend asked another friend to push her if she chickened out. She didn’t end up getting hurt from the push/fall,…

As someone in the movement who has been having PTSD reading people’s bonkers (negative) responses to Candice while falling all over themselves to praise Willie’s “bravery,” this is the most reasonable comment I have read anywhere in the last 4 days. Thank you thank you thank you. I want to put this on a card and mail…

But if it isn’t true for her sake, she is painted as a liar and someone trying to get something out of this. She had absolutely nothing to gain by sharing her story except holding her abuser accountable and paving the way for others to do the same. With the backlash she faced immediately from WITHIN the movement, I…

Hi, from my little corner of the movement :) I’ve also met Dr. Parker, several times a year at different conferences, like those Candice mentions in her piece. I can not claim him as a friend or someone I’ve had long conversations with, just a colleague I look(ed) up to, who knew lots of mutual colleagues well.

Fuck. I work in the abortion providing community and this is the first I’ve heard of this. My heart just dropped -- for those coming forward, for our field, and for all of the Antis who are going to capitalize on this and try to demonize us even more.

These clinics also buy up buildings that house abortion providers and actual comprehensive repro health care services, run them out, then put up one of these crisis pregnancy centers — so when people show up to a clinic they are used to going to, SURPRISE! they are inside a CPC. Planned Parenthood in my area was…