Yep, if they denied communion to every parishioner who supported abortion rights (whether in theory, voting records, or via their or their spouse’s own abortion), their membership would decrease so drastically they couldn’t stay afloat.

Good on her, I hope it works out. Note that in many areas consultations cost money. In mine the going rate is $350 for an employment law consult. And yes I checked around to several firms —they all carry that rate.

I was sad to not be surprised this was a mugshot from Iowa and not Florida...

As a former valedictorian, former Texan, and current abortion care worker: Hell to the Fucking Yes. What courage and smarts she has to do this. Talking about abortion bans in a valedictorian speech is gutsy even in a liberal state. To do so in Texas, even more so times ten.

Yeah, this guy and I didn’t stay in touch after breaking up. Friends have told me that on Facebook he’s an extreme MAGA type who moved his wife and kids from a blue state to a red state after Obama’s second election and only got more bonkers from there through the Trump years.

Yup. My first boyfriend was 20 when I was 16. I thought I was sooooo mature. A freakin’ high school Junior whose boyfriend had a salaried union job and 45 hour work week. He’d pick me up from marching band practice. I cringe to think about what all of the adults around me thought of that situation...

Wish there was a way to guest op these blog posts. There’s a lot to be mad about, but disparaging a study without actually reading or understanding it just creates confusion around academic inquiry for folks who don’t or can’t read scholarly articles and dissect the methodology and results... :-/

Yeah I’m wondering if the key operative here is “find value,” and how the investigators are quantifying it. Like financial and time investments in one person’s body over another? Still very sexist for both spouses to value/fixate on one sex’s body, clearly due to patriarchal expectations on women.

Esther, thanks for linking to the National Network of Abortion Funds. I also recommend www.abortioncarenetwork.org, for donating to independent clinics which make up the majority of the last standing abortion providers in the South, like the Jackson Women’s Center.

This entertains me to no end.

“Peanut butter bread.” So simple, so tasty, and a half sandwich was 5 cents. It was literally just white bread with peanut butter, cut in half corner to corner, available as an add-on at the end of the food line. As a poor kid who didn’t always get enough to eat at home, it was a very cheap and unassuming way to get…

Hi, I work in a clinic and appreciate everything you’ve written here. Thank you for taking the time.

My spouse and I (7 years next month!) watched both seasons of these shows together. It was a learning experience to see how other couples communicate. Sometimes (especially in Season 1), the couples’ issues helped us feel better about our stuff by comparison. “At least we’re not like THAT!” At other times, exact…

I highly recommend reading Shout Your Abortion and Untold Stories” Life, Love, and Reproduction, checking out Abortion Access Front’s social media, and listening to first-person abortion stories in places like Abortion Diary Podcast and Two Plus Abortions Worldwide (dot com).

These things aren’t exclusive of each other. Yes, we absolutely need comprehensive, free, accessible sex education and access to birth control. BC is not the end-all-be-all though. People cannot or choose not to take BC for a variety of reasons, and should not be precluded from accessible and affordable abortion care.…

Two divorce cakes were ready for pickup at my local bakery on Saturday when I popped in to place an unrelated order. One cake looked like a dumpster on fire with a groom’s tux and bride’s dress hanging out of it. Brilliant.

Masking has let me explore my gender spectrum more. I stopped wearing makeup completely, was able to do whatever I wanted with my hair because of quarantine, and then eventually started dressing more androgynously. Whereas I used to try to play with my gender presentation in the before times, I would get weird stares…

Scarlett is 36 and Billie is 19, so the mother daughter thing would need to be a teen parent situation. Nothing wrong with that, but sisters could be fun.

Right? They are so inconsistent and vindictive in how they try to punish their congregants. My parents were forbidden from taking communion because they didn’t get married in the Catholic Church. My siblings and I were thus considered bastard children, even though we were born to married parents, because our parents’…

No you don’t support someone getting an abortion for any reason they need it? The person gets to CHOOSE why they want or need an abortion. Then you’re not pro choice.