Fred: The size and depth of the wound indicate a female vampire. Harmony: Or gay! Fred: Um…it doesn't really work like that.

'Harm's Way'


Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Dana - Apr 18, 2007 11:07:24 am PDT #3325 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I think I stumbled across that place you interviewed at, you know, the one that would be weird and morbid.

I almost wish I'd gotten a little further in that process, just to see what it was like.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 18, 2007 11:20:36 am PDT #3326 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

My views on the general issue are opposed to those of most here, but this is the part that really gets me:

No matter if the mother would be forced to have, for example, a kidney transplant or a hysterectomy if she continued with the pregnancy. (Legislators did not provide a health exception for the woman, arguing that it would provide too big a loophole.)

Because I'm sure fiendishly exploiting a legal loophole to advance the opposing political agenda is foremost in the minds of women seeking late term abortions of pregnancies that have turned out to be medically dangerous to them.


shrift - Apr 18, 2007 11:57:34 am PDT #3327 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I almost wish I'd gotten a little further in that process, just to see what it was like.

If it's the place I think it is, they have what I consider an unnecessary thing on their homepage re: VA Tech.


Scrappy - Apr 18, 2007 12:00:58 pm PDT #3328 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

My mom had a "Late Term Abortion" when I was a very little kid. It was due to a miscarriage that didn't complete and she would have died without it. I have strong feelings on the matter, as you might imagine.


erikaj - Apr 18, 2007 12:09:45 pm PDT #3329 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

can't blame you, Robin.


Connie Neil - Apr 18, 2007 12:13:49 pm PDT #3330 of 10001
brillig

My mom had a "Late Term Abortion" when I was a very little kid. It was due to a miscarriage that didn't complete and she would have died without it. I have strong feelings on the matter, as you might imagine.

So did my mother, and I'd not be here if she hadn't because it was the pregnancy before me. Though Mother always called it a miscarriage, because she wasn't the kind of woman to get an abortion.


Jesse - Apr 18, 2007 12:14:03 pm PDT #3331 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I really can barely even think about any of this stuff, because it makes me so crazy. The good news for your mother, Robin, is that even today she'd be protected if it was her life at stake.


Jesse - Apr 18, 2007 12:15:31 pm PDT #3332 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Connie, on the flip side, I have a friend who works in reproductive health who recently had a miscarriage, and she talked about the abortion she had to get after the fetus stopped growing.


Topic!Cindy - Apr 18, 2007 12:15:49 pm PDT #3333 of 10001
What is even happening?

Where I'm gobsmacked is that health is not seen as justification enough. I mean, I have the right to defend myself in general, just not inside my own body?


erikaj - Apr 18, 2007 12:20:31 pm PDT #3334 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

with a gun, yes. at the doctor, nsm.