Well, according to many on the hard right, Planned Parenthood was started in black neighborhoods by a eugenics believer to control the black population. [disputed by NPR]

And they go postal when you point out to them that many of us can multitask - ie, think of more than one thing at a time....

And don’t even think about breastfeeding that child in public! Because the same people who believe fetuses are sacred think boobs are shameful.

It honestly baffles my mind how many women are not a one-issue-voter on the issue of paid family leave. I am pregnant and made me mistake to go on some pregnancy forums (ugh, that was a terrible mistake. I wish someone had warned me how much BS one encounters in such forums). There are so many pregnant women PREGNANT…

The American Academy of Pediatricians recommends breastfeeding for 12 months ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha we get 12 weeks of unpaid leave and then they expect us to go back to work and pump for the next 9 MONTHS!!!!!!!! This is a fantastic country to have children.

...which in a weird way makes it even more fucked up that for that 18 years in between they don’t care about them becoming healthy and fit enough to go fight unnecessary wars. The entire original impetus of the Presidential Physical Fitness tests were to ensure we had enough able bodied young people to continue…

Can someone just punch Ivanka in her smug little face? She’s so pleased with herself for her “Women Who Work” slogan, yet useless and vapid. To be fair, she’s the smartest sibling, but that bar is so, so low.

Thanks! We’re excited and terrified. Six weeks of leave - jesus. A six week old baby is so so tiny! If I get pregnant, I am going to do my unpaid 12 weeks and also hope to come back to work part-time (the project I’m on will be winding down in about a year, so it might work out really well and save everyone some $).

I wish women didn’t have to depend upon finding the “dream” job to get paid maternity leave (example: my husband’s law firm, where women get about 6 months of paid leave). The odds of finding that job are nearly impossible and to qualify for it you need a HUGE advantage (education - probably a graduate or professional…

Not even take care of birth (god forbid the government mandate high standards for birthing centers and hospitals). Just force the fetus to stay full-term and then the mom can figure it out afterwards.

UGH. That whole family/maternity leave nonsense is infuriating. I went to my employer last September b/c we didn’t even have a maternity leave clause in the bylaws. Granted, I work for a small nonprofit (8 full-time, 2 part-time, 2 contract employees) so they’d be in a bit of a pickle if I went on 3 months maternity…

“the original intention of the plan is to help mothers in recovery in the immediate aftermath of childbirth.”

It’s a “pro-birth” policy only. Just like everything else those people do vis-a-vis women’s healthcare and rights. No help before or during the pregnancy, no help after the birth recovery, only take care of birth.

Let’s check the facts on this one, shall we? Currently, the US government offers 12 weeks of federally mandated leave after birth, all unpaid, at companies that employ 50 or more employees. The United States remains the only industrialized nation to not offer federally mandated paid family leave, which historically…

This is EXACTLY what I said!!! Like, what about that poor woman? Where is she now? Do we GAF or nah, because she’s a dirty drug person and we only care about her to the extent that she’s a prop in this weird story about rescue-stealing a baby?

He literally could not give a shit about maternity leave, let alone time for husbands to get leave with the birth of a child. This is a man who boasts about never having changed a nappy despite having four kids. The closest thing that he got to empathizing with a child in the SOTU cringe was that horrible story about…

Exactly! In the usual evangelical Christian manner, all the focus was on the fetus while the living, breathing human being standing right in front of you can just hurry up and DIE already. She’s a filthy sinner, obviously and doesn’t deserve our help. WWJD? Probably slap the crap out of these hypocrites.

I absolutely disagree with you but for the sake of argument, did the cop try to contact the woman’s relatives? Why is HIS family necessarily the best option? Considering there are many families looking for babies to adopt, why did his family get to adopt this one? The story has many many holes. There is a lot that we…

Not fighting with you, but with all due respect, I can think in at least one scenario where that “mother” should totally have ever kept that kid: she gets the help she needs - and its an obligation of the State to provide! -, hopefuly recovers, and go on becoming a good mother. You call it “insanity”, I call it…

I sincerely hope 20-something years from now this little girl, now a full grown woman, has an eureka moment and say to this guy “You were a police officer, a figure of authority with the task of serve and protect. You had my mom right in front of you, in desperate need of help. And your answer to that human being,…