I guess, ideally, if one person refused it wouldn't be a big deal because someone could get it from a different pharmacist. My only issue is that there are places here in Illinois where if one pharmacist refuses to give Plan B, a legal and safe medication, then it's possible that the person seeking it will not have…

The only pants I ever have to hem are designer jeans. All other pants I get at... J.Crew, Gap, Banana Republic, Anthropologie... all fit me without hemming. I am 5'7". And I think the jeans are so long because you're expected to wear them with heels. I say fuck that, and hem them and wear with flip flops.

It actually depends on what type of genetic testing your aunt had. If she had "sequence analysis" as well as "deletion/duplication analysis" aka. BART, and tested negative for both, then I probably wouldn't recommend testing for any other family members bc your aunt who had the ovarian cancer would be the person most…

Your grandmother and aunt should get tested first. A result in either of them would be most informative. If a mutation is identified, then other family members can be tested. (I elaborated on this in a related comment in this thread.)

Actually, Kathy should get tested first, and then if they find a mutation, her children can get tested. Sons included. Mutations in BRCA1/2 also have increased risks for prostate and breast cancer in males.

This would also hold true for people who have other radiation sensitive mutations as well... the p53 mutations associated with Li Fraumini syndrome also come to mind. MRI is recommended in Li Fraumini syndrome for that specific reason.

You're very flippant about this whole situation and I don't understand why you can't just acknowledge that having sex with someone while they are sleeping is doing something to them when they haven't consented and having sex with someone who has not consented is basically the definition of rape. You keep coming back…

I see what you did there... but I'm not sure you do?

"So, again, you are calling my wife a rapist. She raped me because she had sex with me without my consent, explicit or implied"

Yeah, I dunno. If my fiancé tried to have sex with me while I was sleeping, I would be furious. But apparently consent don't count if you're in a relationship? I can't even...

Oh, I forgot husbands/wives can't rape their spouses... How did I end up in bizzaro land where it's okay to have sex with someone without them consenting? Like I said, if that's something that is okay and accepted in your relationship then it's one thing, but if she did it without asking then it is violating you.

Waking up to someone having sex with you is sexual assault. (Unless you have specifically had a conversation saying that that is in play.)

Certainly I disagree with a lot of their philosophies, but at least they are not the Westboro Baptist Church. I would take 50 Duggars whose names all begin with "J" over those scum all day long.

You wouldn't necessarily need to do IVF (in vitro fertilization). Certainly you would need to use assisted reproductive technology, but probably you wouldn't need to go through the whole process of harvesting eggs and hormones and shots. Maybe they would put you on clomid to try to up the egg production, but I…

Why is "only being able to unconditionally love a child that is biologically yours" the only factor that goes into someone's decision to adopt or not? Seems like an oversimplified view of the whole thing.

I am a genetic counselor, and though this does happen occasionally, it is really rare. We more often see women do this if they are going to undergo some treatments for cancer and want biological children down the line and are afraid the treatments will make them infertile. With increases in mom's age, we are mostly…

In this case, Isla's mom was the passive participant though. She had no idea what was going on. The dude was the one making the moves while she was lying there. I posit that tea bag is like fuck. It can go both ways.

The goodie bags that are given away have always seemed to me like the free meals and goodies that big pharma used to be able to give to MDs before they shut that down. And for those same reasons I don't disagree with taking that away. That being said, I know that formula is expensive. I think I read that it is one…

They also probably tried to blame some of the effects on other things because *when* the thalidomide was given also had a huge impact on what was affected. Given at one point in time and the fetus has missing fingers, given 2 weeks earlier and the fetus has no legs or arms. Makes sense from an embryology point of…

I was looking to see if anyone else had said this. This is what I wanted to say. Often I don't acknowledge people when they tell me to smile or catcall me and then I get "fucking bitch" or "cunt". I tend to think those are the most offensive of the catcalls.