I'm in the grays so probably this won't get read, but saying there is no test for viability isn't true (and I say this as a pro-choice doctor). There are lots of tests for viability, which routinely get used when a doctor is making the decision whether or not to deliver a preterm baby—for instance, in the case of…

We had been on the road for several days, and had our fair share of the standard franchise food, so went a little off our beaten path with this choice

The allergy one makes me remember yet again why my brother and sister-in-law have a fondness for Disney.

Counterpoint:

Pork Wine. The OTHER white wine.

I see you trollin' with your "Midwestern food sensibilities."

I tried to flirt with a guy by stealing his drink recently and it DID NOT WORK. It was so many shades of embarrassing because he's a friend of a friend and I see him around fairly often. Oops!

My mother. Who took the opportunity during her toast to give my bride my bronzed baby shoes, saying "This is all I have left to give to you of my Gregory. The rest you've already taken for yourself"

HER HAIR WAS AMAZING AND THIS WAS AMAZING

I mean... isn't that a teeeeeeensy bit of a stretch?

I have a theory about people who become wildly successful/famous on the level that Steve has achieved: their relationship with their past, pre-fame and success, is an either or proposition. Either they embrace it. Or they shed it like a snake sheds its skin, leaving it in the middle of the road, to dry up and blow…

I saw that. He killed a guy.

you can't blame him for that; things just escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast.

Bad thing: He killed a guy with a trident.

Bad things about Steve Carrell: He is not, currently, my best friend.

I feel like maybe age is an advantage when it comes to shade. Like you learn subtlty. Which is why Mothers and Mother-in-Laws are such gods of shade.

"...this time she closed the card with: 'From the woman who loved you first.'"

I've found that to be the case with woman I know - if they were pro-choice before pregnancy, they became even more so afterward. That goes for both the complicated and "normal" pregnancies.

YES - to echo what so many others have said in response to your brilliant post, pregnancy has absolutely strengthened my pro-choice leanings. Fuck ANYONE who would dare approach me and try to tell me with a straight face that my agency and MY very "person-hood" goes out the window now that I'm in the family way.