I love how I just refer to my mom right off the bat as “she” like she’s always on my mind (she is) (help me, Freud). 

I had a little emotional breakdown over my art project in third grade and she said she was going to speak with my teacher about how upset I was. Proud and (normally) unemotional, I begged her not to tell the teacher I had been crying. The next morning, my mom handed me a sealed envelope and told me that to give it to…

Oh, the halcyon days of 2015. I think?

The thing that sticks in my head is the story is Rick Santorum’s wife. IIRC, she had a life threatening pregnancy, but she just “induced birth” prior to viability...she DID NOT have an abortion.

I 100 percent believe these stories based on his behavior towards McCain and it’s just too much anger to express. 

At the time of the original article, I think he was using they/them, but now is using he/him. Also, I tend to agree-this largely seems like a self-inflicted burden, and it’s hard to blame The Atlantic for this one particular issue. In fact, I might go so far as to say that doing so actually distracts from and…

My sibling had a school classmate who died from delivery complications. She had a C-section, went home and didn’t heal. Her family took her to the dr. who dismissed her pain and later she went to the hospital where it was discovered she had sepsis. Her ob/gyn had cut her too deep during her C-section. She left behind…

A co-worker recently shared a story with me of having to get a D&C to remove an unviable fetus. She had to drive 2 1/2 hours to get there and was verbally abused by protestors. And she wanted that baby. It was heartbreaking to hear.

Shut up, Ted. Go back to killing kids making out in cars.

My takeaway form this conversation is that someone really needs to shove a watermelon up Ted Cruz’s butt. What happens after that is immaterial.

Thank you. It was terrible, this whole year can fuck right off.

Any man who as ever seen a women in labor knows that his statement is absolutely ludicrous.

it’s stupid because it’s untrue, but at the same time, does it even matter? Even if medical care dramatically improved in the future to where we have NO mortalities and even no serious side effects, that wouldn’t impact abortion - would it? Because it’s about more than just personal risk.

Yeah EXACTLY. And you know what? I was a person who was like “oh this isn’t scary” when I had my first kid. And it wasn’t! I had great doctors, everything was fine, I recovered nicely. Lah did dah, right?

I have a better idea. Once Ted squeezes the entire watermelon out, nothing happens. He gains no rights of any kind, because he is and always will be a total asshole. 

My friend was pregnant with twins and ended up with all sorts of complications. She was in the hospital for 9 week and she qualified for FMLA so she could miss work without getting fired. Pregnancy for sure can be considered an illness/disability! Especially when complications arise!

The idea that pregnancy isn’t dangerous has the same root as why people don’t think measles are dangerous. We’ve made pregnancy so safe (even with how dangerous it still is!) that people have forgotten the historical death toll. Measles used to ravage populations, and women used to die in childbirth all the time. It…

Every once in a while I consider how many friends’ funerals I’d have been to by now if not for access to good OB care, and it’s absolutely staggering. Of my dozen or so fondest girlfriends, I’d have five left. Three of those do not have kids. One would have had a stillbirth. Only one had an uncomplicated pregnancy and …

Serena Williams had major complications in childbirth. One of the strongest, healthiest women on the planet almost died due to pregnancy. Beyonce and Kim Kardashian also had major complications with their pregnancies but are wealthy enough to have access to the best doctors and medical care. Not all women are that…

Another another reason that it's important to frame pregnancy as illness is because of disability payments. I was able to get some of my salary reimbursed to me while I was working in California and Pregnant. I think I took 4 weeks off before the baby came because the pregnancy was so uncomfortable and had messed up…