Trauma did NOT make you stronger.
It made you hyper-vigilant and scared of even calm and joyful experiences.
YOU make yourself stronger through the work of discerning between real and perceived threat.
Methotrexate, which apparently can cause abortions, being DISCONTINUED for RA & Lupus patients that are able to conceive is CRUEL since it's such an effective treatment.
This is The Handmaid's Tale come true.😡😡
Pro-lifers don't like complexity. At 17 weeks my placenta detached and he was much too small. I thought I felt my baby's frantic attempts to breathe. My OBGYN advised me to terminate the pregnancy, there wasn't much time. But I couldn't.
I never wanted to tell this story. But I had to have a medical abortion to save my life. My baby wasn’t going to live. It was one of the hardest days of my life. Now, I can go to prison for longer than my father- a domestic terrorist- did if it happens again or just die. #america
Clarence Thomas writes, in a concurring opinion, that the Supreme Court should reconsider Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell — the rulings that now protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.
one time i changed in front of my mom and she saw a tattoo i have next to my boob and she was like “make sure your employer never sees that. tattoos aren’t professional.” and it’s like fuck now i can’t sleep w my boss without them thinking im unprofessional.
Y'all ready for a German fact that blew my mind?
Homeschooling is illegal.
Started in 1919, to make sure poor kids wouldn't wind up working on the farm and that kids of all classes would mix. Post WWII it stayed b/c it was a way to ensure parents couldn't indoctrinate kids.