Exactly. I really don’t get the divisions in the motorcycle community, be it guys on choppers who refuse to return a chucked deuce because I’m on a European bike or the “Harley Only” crowd. I couldn’t give a damn what kind of bike you have or what gender you are. If you ride well (and sanely) and are cool to hang…

You’re welcome!

Awesome story. I’m hoping my daughters will embrace my love of motorcycles. So far, so good.

Yes! I know way too many fellow guys who apparently love motorcycles but are OK with denying women the experience because, reasons. This sentiment really poisons the vintage Harley circles I run in and it makes me sad.

i think girl groups are just fine and dandy, and probably always will be.

This is a thing! A guy at Target (a complete stranger) tried to give me shit once for buying tampons. Who does that? Why did he do that? What was his end goal? Did he think I’d drop the box of tampons and run out of the store? I didn’t get it then and I still don’t get it.

I am so, so tempted to volunteer at one of those CPCs. You don’t need any qualifications, right? Just feed them the lies they want to hear, and as soon as you’re alone with a woman you can provide the real options and support all choices.
What gets me is that many of these places don’t offer parenting support either.…

I really, really think a lot of how this case played out was due to the personal anti-abortion opinions of the hospital staff and the initial detective who were there. The detective made some hella conjecture-ey statements about her and the medical condition of the infant to the media, and that’s been almost entirely…

Yes, with catastrophic injuries that will likely leave him permanently disabled.

That’s the thing though, they don’t care about any of the reasons or needs women might have an abortion, which means women die. Or go to jail, or fuck up their insides or get stuck with children they don’t want or can’t care for. Literally none of that matters to the pro-birthers. If a woman didn’t want to have to…

Also, America has no fucking right to criticize people from ‘third world’ and ‘backwards’ countries like those in the Middle East and South Asia for the way women are treated or what they choose to wear.

And yet Mr. Stanford Rapist got like 3 months AFTER conviction (yes, yes, yes, pedants, I know it’s a different state and different cases and whatever, all I mean is that it is fundamentally unfair in life and America that this desperate woman gets forced into a plea because of lack of money while an actual convicted…

I had this exact visceral, physical reaction. So awful. Fuck Paul Ryan. Fuck them all.

And now that poor infant is stuck living its life with all that damage. It shouldn’t have been born. Everybody loses.

That was my thought too - where the right to abortion exists, how can “procurement of a miscarriage” possibly be a felony?

Unfortunately I don´t expect her to appeal - I’m guessing she’ll just want to get on with her life and thank her lucky stars it wasn’t a whole lot worse (i.e. the original charges didn’t stick).

This so much. I don’t how people that are adamantly against a woman’s right to choose don’t realise that it doesn’t suddenly eliminate the need or choice to terminate a pregnancy for some people. desperate people resort to desperate measures - I mean I doubt that this woman woke up one morning and decided to shove a…

Just look at Texas. In the years it took to get the TRAP laws repealed, incidences of injuries or death resulting from botched home abortions rose by over 200%. And this was in less than four years.

Whenever someone mentions the coat hanger thing, the entire lower half of my body cramps up. It is devastating, the despair to which women are driven by a system that deprives them of their bodily autonomy. ‘Attempted procurement of a miscarriage’ is a bullshit crime.

This is what happens when the government funds anti-abortion facilities that blatantly disguise themselves as health centers. There are more of these “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” in the U.S. than abortion providers, and states in the Midwest and South are saturated with them. (Check out this mini documentary from Vice…

As access to abortion becomes more restricted and people continue to believe sex education encourages sex, more botched at home abortions will happen. Men and women against abortion will insist these laws save lives, will pay no attention to ho many it ruins and continue to believe anyone who dies attempting abortion…