This is either amazing unintentional irony, or hall of fame satire.

I had a miscarriage at 8 weeks or so. It was painful, and messy, and to this day I still can’t eat grape jelly.

You know what it wasn’t? Worthy of a funeral.

I have miscarried at a hospital twice (they have the good drugs) at about ten weeks. It was very painful, but what came out of me fit in the palm of my fucking hand and was simply a gelatinous blob of blood and tissue. If I’d had to pay for that thing to be buried or cremated I would have been pissed. It’s already a…

I had a missed miscarriage resulting in a D&C this fall. Fetal Friend died around six weeks, my body did not get the memo at all, I went in for my first ultrasound at nine weeks and there was no heartbeat. I had the surgery eleven days later. I’m sorry that happened to you, too. Hope you’re well.

Will we have to have a funeral for the egg expelled during our periods? Shall we all put tampons in little caskets and bury them each month? Will Mozart write a requiem for the tampons? Will men be required to bury their spooge? Will jerk-off socks become illegal? I hope they put up a FAQ section on the state…

While this is an extremely shitty rule for a variety of different reasons, it’s meant to be a hollow one - most medical waste is incinerated, and this rule requires that a certain type of medical waste be buried or incinerated.

That’s actually the worst part about it. If I had an unplanned pregnancy and then had to bury my bloody pad, whatever. I’ll use it as an excuse to throw a kickass party after. But many many, if not the vast majority, of late term abortions are pregnancies that were entirely wanted. So, not only did they lose their…

On the pond in the National Mall.

Thanks for highlighting the pathology and evidence angle. I had a 2nd trimester abortion for a much wanted pregnancy due to malformations that were incompatible with life, and 90% random/ 10% genetically carried (we fell into the unlucky 10% but are now able to use the tissue samples to build screening probes to…

This was my thought too. When my ex and I decided to have an abortion it was early and pretty much a period. Do these fucking people like not even understand how the process works?! It’s like they think all abortions are actually producing fully formed people, when reality is so much different. How are they going to…

THIS. I had a missed miscarriage (no outward signs - found out when the first sono showed no heartbeat). I opted for a D&C rather than play the waiting game. Since I’d had no symptoms for a few weeks since the fetus passed apparently, who knows how long it would have taken. Having to make arrangements or pay for (I…

I just donated to CRR. I ain’t got much but when Jez puts up these stories and I can spare a few bucks, I do what I can. So many orgs need support now and into the hellish future...

This law is terrible. First, because it impedes abortions. Second, because it imposes itself upon people who planned on having their child as well. It’s just as unacceptable to force someone who has either lost their baby or has nearly died from their pregnancy to have a funeral as it is to force women who never…

Abbott told supporters that the new rule was necessary because he doesn’t believe that fetal tissue should be “treated like medical waste and disposed of in landfills.”

I still can’t figure out this “occurs at home” exception.

Yet another way to cut abortion access: by adding a completely unnecessary and certainly difficult (financially and emotionally) EXPENSE to the procedure.