My neighboring city just busted a massage parlor with forced labor. What did they find? Eleven girls (CHILDREN) under age 18. We also need to hold accountable the people soliciting slave labor and frothing at the mouth at the influx of desperately poor who they can exploit.

Keeping people eyeball deep in unplanned children and poverty is the design. America needs a desperate class of low wage workers to take the pennies corporations toss them in exchange for exploited labor, unable to fight for their rights out of fear of not being able to feed the children they were forced to birth.…

Remember this: children do not ask to be born. Children do not choose their parents. Children do not consent to adoption, or foster care, or being raised fundie, or being stuck in abusive households, or poverty, or or or…

Spot on. Currently reading this article during a little siesta in Madrid, after traveling through Iceland, Sweden, and the Netherlands over the last several weeks. I’m an American tourist abroad, and I’ve noticed the German tourists being completely unaware of social norms, which surprised me because I guess I assumed…

THANK YOU for sharing these resources. I work in abortion care and have been commenting on Jez for close to a decade — commenting on every article that equated abortion with Planned Parenthood, that the majority of abortions occur at independent clinics (and 100% of abortions in later pregnancy). Felt like I was…

To clarify: Morning after pills are not the same thing as abortion pills. “Morning after” pills are emergency contraceptives, which can be taken up to 3-5 days after unprotected sex to *prevent* a pregnancy. Abortion pills, highlighted in this article, end a pregnancy that has already started, up to 10 weeks since…

The group was called The Jane Collective. “The Janes” is the title of the film and not what the group was called. There have been several films and books about them over the decades. I worked with one of the original Jane Collective members at my first Abortion clinic job in the Midwest.

Really bummed that SNS wasn’t posted until so late, and that it’s a slideshow so the comments don’t work properly.

$10k in forgiveness would cut what I still owe in half, after paying on my loans for almost 20 years. The loan payment pause these last 2 years has allowed me to better support my household, and allowed my spouse to go finish his bachelor’s degree (after it being paused for 20 years) without us having to take on any…

I think that interaction between Kate and Toby showed their core differences in personality. He processes his feelings through humor and grand gestures, she is more pensive and introspective. I like that she didn’t have to respond to or reward his behavior in any specific way; it shows how deeply they know each other.…

My spouse is a twin in a family that adopted a 3rd child of the same age (and a different race, who later passed away in adulthood). He has a hard time emoting in his daily life but hoyyyy boy, did this show turn on the waterworks frequently over the years. We’d enjoy the show together and then he’d tell me stories…

*Takes out notepad* ... So you’re telling me there’s going to be a parking lot full of cars with unsecured guns in them at this event?

Jesus Fuck.

I work in abortion care. I hate that this is all happening. I both agree and disagree with Christina. We can do both — we can fundraise, donate to clinics and abortion funds to keep access going. We can also be out on the streets, pissed as all hell, showing our righteous anger, demanding that our rights be codified…

These folks are scared by a little chalk on a public sidewalk, and peaceful protestors outside their homes? They should spend an hour inside an abortion clinic and see what staff and patients go through at the hands of aggressive, angry, virulent mobs of pro-forced-birth crazies.

Yes. They want no exceptions.

I love that in the late 90s/early 2000s (when I was a teen), the 1970s was 25-30 years ago. Perfect nostalgia for my parents who were young people at that time; one of the only shows we enjoyed watching as a family. Now in the 2020s, this show about the 90s will be set 25-30 years ago, when I was a young person. The…

Here to say that the level and quality of reporting about abortion has really increased in the last few months. I’ve been a commenter on Jez for 9+ years, and work at an independent abortion clinic (formally worked at a Planned Parenthood).

Neither here nor there, but I think it’s hilarious that the Planned Parenthood affiliate is the Great Northwest and Hawai’i & Alaska AND... Indiana and Kentucky? Could you get 3 areas any more vastly different from each other in population and need?

I’m very sorry that you were denied the healthcare you sought. Unfortunately there are so many people with similar stories. The Turnaway Study is a sobering look into these experiences from folks seeking, and denied, abortion over the last 10 years: https://www.ansirh.org/research/ongoing/turnaway-study