These are Boomers’ grandkids, but yes, you are correct.

These are the same people who stand outside abortion clinics and shout about the “undeniable bond between mother and baby!” “you will live with a lifetime of regret!!”... unless you want to sell babies for profit. Looks like we now know ANOTHER reason repubs want to keep women pregnant. They want to sell that baby for…

Old house and kids weren’t allowed to have locking doors. Our bathrooms also didn’t have locking doors. Rural folk rules, I didn’t think too much of it growing up. The 4 BR house I live in now also only 1 one door that locks (main floor bathroom).

Wow, thanks for finding that. I did not enjoy seeing that they are trying to bring the Noid back — especially as a real human in a costume. UUGGHHH.

I was too late with my submission last year, so here goes...

I’m doxxing myself because my friends all know this story. I waited until daytime to write it because it scares me so much.

Thanks for your words. No, never has someone come in that far along in their pregnancy seeking an abortion. After Tiller is a great documentary and shadows the only 4 abortion providers in the U.S. who perform abortions after 24 weeks. They actually show how the clinicians decide the cut-off point in conversation with…

Thanks for the kind words. Honestly, I’m so exhausted having these conversations. Especially with “pro-choice” people. It’s been an oddly abortion-centric day on Jezebel, which is great to see — so many different articles about different issues surrounding abortion and abortion access. Then you have these people who…

That is the standard in the U.S. right now. The “healing faster” from medication vs. surgical abortion you mention below— do you have statistics on that? I work in abortion care and even when they are in the range to get a medical abortion, many people opt for the aspiration abortion because it only takes a few…

Yet you have nothing to say to the rest of my post which responds to the non-issue of “full term abortions.”

Oof. I’m replying even though all of my sensibilities tell me to not even bother.

Best comment of the thread. Thank you for your service.

I’m starring your earlier comments and agreeing with you for the most part. But where are you getting that he’s a biostatistician? He may use biostatistics as a research method, but his bio and CV both say he’s in the behavioral sciences speciality area of public health. Just trying to make sure I’m looking at the…

He has a PhD in Public Health from Rutgers and is tenure-track faculty at Columbia, with years of experience in Tobacco Studies specifically. While, perhaps, he should not be giving medical advice, he is very well positioned to talk about health behaviors like addiction, nicotine use, smoking, vaping, etc. It sounds…

Who are these “grantees”? The linked Hill article just says they are located in mostly conservative states, but does not indicate what types of providers are taking the funds.

I’m curious if/how/when lesson plans and class materials get approved in K-12 schools. Do teachers have to submit their plans/materials to anyone? If so, how often? Would someone else have seen this before she delivered it to the students?

Thanks! Been Cigarette Free for 6 years this New Year’s Eve and Vape Free for 5 years on New Year’s Eve :)

This is the best take. Sassy and educational. This former-smoker-who-tried-vapes-and-was-like-WTFareTheseChemicalsInMyThroatNoThanksIllJustGetPatches thanks you for your service.

I grew 7 inches in 6 months, to 6 feet tall, at age 11-12. I entered the 7th grade a literal giant, towering over peers and teachers alike. I grew so fast my bones ached and I was hunched over like a question mark, with no other indicators of puberty besides my height. I was under 100 pounds, flat chested, all…

I hope there are references to my all-time favorite super-80s slasher, Sleepaway Camp (1983).

I noticed that too, wtf is going on? And “pro-choice” means different things in action, so we need to know where candidates stand. Are they fine with 20 week bans, even though most fetal anomalies aren’t diagnosed until after that? Do they support buffer zone laws that keep protestors away from clinic doors so they…