The things done to a brain-dead person to keep them alive can unalterably change a fetus. We're talking infections, drugs, antibiotics, etc, etc, etc.

Which is utter bollocks. If you're REALLY into that whole "life is sacred" thing, then that means ALL life, even the incarcerated and murderous and subhuman humanoids.

I'm not saying it's logical, I'm just explaining their rationalization. I've discussed it with more than one death penalty loving forced-birther, and the answer is always a variation of "the convict deserves it, the baby does not."

It's extremely sick and unfortunately more common than people realize. I'd reccommend anyone who lives in the states on pages 3-4 of this report get in touch with their reps and register discontent with abrogation of end-of-life directives.

The state pays for the attorney. Basically the lawyer gets to sue the pregnant woman on behalf of the fetus so she is tied up in court and not allowed to get an abortion in the meantime. It's gross.

Representative Matt Krause, Governor Bobby Jindal and the GOP are proving what everybody already knew, that they think of women as incubators. Literally.

Yes because everything including this story which has literally nothing to do with this issue is all about an infinitesimally small part of the population who expect their patriarchal imperatives to carry over into another gender. Even amid women, the population physically capable of becoming and being pregnant is not…

I'm sorry, it doesn't matter how much Ani di Franco you've listened to or how much Judith Butler you've read, if you don't have a uterus, you're not getting pregnant. Conversely if you believe, not matter how strongly, that you are some flavour of other gender, and you do have a uterus, your fervency will not prevent y…

There is a world of difference between a coma and brain death.

So, should women of childbearing age consider this in preparing their advance directives? Like, I'm thinking of my personal case - my husband and I prepared living wills a few years ago after a horrible, messy end of life care situation with his grandmother. Our directives are pretty explicit about not wanting any…

At my step-brother's wedding, during the bouquet toss, it appeared that a 6-foot-tall woman stepped out of nowhere, held her arm straight up with her hand open, and somehow magicked the bouquet directly into her grasp.

It's insane that this is necessary and it will be even more insane when the voters of Texas reject it en masse. I can't even begin to have the vaguest glimmer of hope that this is going to get anywhere in Texas; it's Texas.

Yet another reason why people who don't have even a basic grasp of science shouldn't be allowed to legislate complicated medical issues.

My older sister (sociopathic and unable to form relationships but somehow lonely and in the belief that she needs a man) actually dislocated my goddamn finger in the bouquet toss at her son's wedding. I had stood pretty much directly behind the bride but a fair ways away, because fuck it, the only people there were…

On the verge of a rage stroke because it is going to take a piece of legislation to make this happen....and only maybe because knowing those evil fuckers in the Texas Lege they won't support it. Jesus fucking christ. Why don't we have sovereignty over our fucking bodies and healthcare decisions?

This story doesn't even compare...

While dancing at the wedding reception for my older brother, my aunt's husband had a heart attack and died just as the reception was winding down. His heart attack struck as he was dancing with my mom. My parents had been divorced for two years but my mom is an angry, bitter harpy and, despite her own boyfriend…

I'm anticipating some kind of scuffle at our wedding, for we are inviting a real live MRA (close family friend on fiance's side, there is no getting out of it). I want to seat him at a table with some of my friends and a centerpiece of knives.

Dammit! I missed this one!

Yaasss wedding fights are the best.