Yup. I worked for a relatively conservative organization (I don’t mean politically or faith-based; I more mean “cheap enough to deny certain kinds of coverage if possible and also very on the business side of business-casual”) when I got pregnant and it stunned the crap out of me to realize that my health insurance…

If that’s not why I have cramps every 28 days, then EVERYTHING I KNOW IS WRONG.

No, exactly on miracles. I believe in them for smaller things. I don’t believe, for example, that the power of prayer cured my nephew’s congenital heart defect; I’m pretty sure it was the surgery he had when he was four, not a whole bunch of prayer.

Yup, very sarcastic. As I recall, whoever tried to put in that sex-selective clause (I want to say North Dakota?) was correctly identified as being super fucking racist, because it was pretty clearly a slam against people who come from cultures where sex-selective abortion is common. It’s just not a thing here.

The problem is that you’re assuming that the goal is actually to reduce abortions. I think it probably is, for a lot of the person-on-the-street, as it were, who protests at clinics or whatever, but the legislation we’ve seen makes it really explicitly clear that it is about punishing the whores. Someone else…

I told the father of mine. He still went on vacation with his wife. (We’re poly.) So, yeah, that didn’t work out very well.

I’m sorry you had to make that decision, and also that you had to deal with well-meaning jackasses who think miracles are a thing. I can’t imagine giving birth to a child with that level of defects, mostly because ... why on earth would I bring someone into the world JUST to suffer and die? Who could think that was…

Well, the whole point of all these bills is to do their damnedest to make sure that abortion is theoretically legal but not actually achievable, so I would say that no, it’s not an on-demand service any more. This might be the most stringent exception clause, but there’s been at least one other that banned…

Sluts probably don’t know who the father is, otherwise, they’d be having a baby with their husband. This is a morally-just clause; we can’t afford for women to find ALL the men they’ve slutted for, after all.

It’s probably going to be presented as making sure that Planned Parenthood can’t keep selling babyparts on the flesh markets of Central Asia or some insane psycho thing.

Well, fortunately for me, since mine was medical, I just flushed that sucker down the toilet!

It does not, surprisingly! But that is really how I would describe it here - a flat $2.50 is a fine price if I’m going into the center of the city; it’s less fine if I’m going about two miles to my college. I know it would be a nightmare shitshow from hell, but I really liked the system in use in England when I lived…

By declaring themselves not responsible for what their “contractors” do, or the condition of their property (Airbnb doesn’t seem to vet houses) and just telling everyone that it will be fine and convenient. (This is true for most people so it’s accurate up to a point.) Where a certain class of regulation exists to…

I have typed that phrase out a couple of times since here and I keep being all “I wonder if that could be, like, a singer’s name...NO STOP BAD TOUCH.” So you are not alone! Sexual Assault Jones and the Ubers, coming to a theater near you!

Clearly, he also uses Uber.

We have a fairly-terrible public transit system here, which is predicated on the assumption that, though there are something like 50 legally-defined communities within an hour of where I am standing, you would definitely, definitely, like to go into the center of the main metropolis to get a bus to anywhere else at…

Yup. This is exactly the issue. We can do all kinds of hand-wringing and breast-beating about Them Damn Millennially-Whatsits, but the reality is society has pitched an aspirational lifestyle forever, saturating their lives in ways that I didn’t experience (Gen-X; when I used a computer in school, computers were for…

The problem I have with this is that Uber has a corporate structure (as does Airbnb, not sure about Aereo) that deliberately puts potential assaulters in contact with victims. What an individual driver or host does is their decision and Uber and the rest of the sharing services don’t increase the rate of sexual…

And we tried promoting serious lifestyle investment - jet-setting and aspirational trips among others - and didn’t bother to pay people what they’re worth or give them job security. No kidding we’ve got people who are willing to take a risk (especially if something bad never happens to them, which is likely that it…

Apparently, they all use Uber.