It’s crazy that doctors are so dismissive of side effects. We know our bodies and what doesn’t feel right!! To dismiss everything as “paranoia” or “hypochondria” or even just an overreaction is a huge disservice to the patience, bordering on malpractice.

I remember hearing the risks from my doctor and reading the risks on the prescription package and doing all my research - clots were always on the list but I thought, “Surely not me!” I was definitely more worried about the “lack of vibrancy” issue when I went on the pill, but it turns out that was the least of my…

Jesus christ I’m so sorry you had to go through this. It’s appalling how doctors consistently refuse to acknowledge the suffering of women, particularly as it relates to menstruation issues. Thank you for sharing your experience. 

I had a similar experience on the depo shot. I swear I’ve tried almost every birth control option available. Several pills, nuva ring (DESTROYED sex for me), depo, IUD. After literally spotting for 9 months straight on depo with the occasional cascade (not as bad as youve described), I went off of it. I naturally have…

Depo was a motherfucking nightmare.  It kicked off a period of terrible rage and depression, accompanied by 3-5 lb weight gain for every shot cycle for two goddamn years.  It certainly shouldn’t have been the first birth control drug I tried, and my doctor should have done more to explain the options to an 18 year old.

I’m autistic, but it went unnoticed for years because I was considered so intelligent as a kid. But even when I started backsliding as a teenager, my parents didn’t act like I was a burden or a disappointment. I won my school spelling bee when I was 12 but they equally congratulated me for doing things like seeing a…

My sister has autism - most people wouldn’t notice or realise, and someone once asked how she was ‘cured’. As she pointed out, she wasn’t - she and we learnt to adapt and change various things in all our lives; she has had a lot of behavioural therapy and speech pathology; and everyone in her life works hard to…

If they wanna embrace this language, then I guess we’ll have to start referring to newborns as nine-month-olds.

It makes no difference you damn simpleton. An adult human is not allowed to be inside another human’s body without the 2nd human’s consent. That’s called rape. So if you want to call unwanted fetus a miniature rapist, go ahead.

I’m curious though, when you’re “six weeks pregnant” your embryo is not actually six weeks old, you didn’t even have the sex that created the embryo until four weeks ago. Anyone who has been pregnant or knows anything about this knows you count from the date of your last period. The pregnancy likely won’t even show up…

This is the part where they lose me completely. I kind of understand where they’re going with the later term abortions— I don’t agree, but I see what they’re saying, and I definitely see how they’ve succeeded with those arguments. But six weeks??!!??? You miscarry at six weeks and you probably don’t even know you’re…

I never bother arguing personhood with pro-birthers. It’s somewhat subjective anyway. And entirely beside the point.

No person has the right to be inside of or use another person’s body for their life. So even if they are a full person, they still don’t have a right to be there and a woman has the right to remove them…

“a fully developed person who can feed themselves and get a job in 2 months”

Hence no need to give the workshy little crumbgrabbers the handouts.

Technically, it’s not even a fetus yet, not until 8 weeks. At 6 weeks it’s an embryo the size of a pea.

I think "host" is more accurate, "mother" is used intentionally to make her seem like a failed woman, a delinquent parent, etc. rather than a woman with an unwanted embryo in her uterus, which she has no obligation to host for 9 months.

this.

I really don’t want to google “6 week embryo” but having had a few 6- 10 week miscarriages, it definitely didn’t look like the slightly cute baby image above the article. It looked like a heavy period. I don’t think pics like this help.

Look, you’re never going to convince people like this that a fetus isn’t a fully developed person who can feed themselves and get a job in 2 months if only their mamma didn’t execute them.

“Baby Roe was approximately six weeks old on February 10, 2017.” Then it isn’t a baby, it’s a fetus or clump of cells in a woman who isn’t a mother and chose not to become one at that point of time. This is enraging, the complete obliteration of the woman as anything but an incubator is horrible. I’m surprised they…

6 week old embryo =/= 6 week old baby, ya douche.