I think the only reason these morons INSIST that fertilization is THE moment is because it's the last second that males take an active role in gestation and yes, they are THAT desperate to put men in control of everything, including pregnancy.
It never seems to occur to these assholes that reproduction is a process, not a fucking event.
Anyone who knows anything about human reproduction knows it's a chancy business - some biologists put the failure rate for fertilized eggs as high as 80%, meaning 80% of fertilized eggs fail to result in live birth. A lot of fertilized eggs just pass out of women's bodies without implanting and thus starting a pregnancy.
Once pregnancy is established, some estimates put the rate of miscarriage as high as 30%, often before the woman knows she's pregnant.
These antichoice assholes may claim that they're all about THE BAAAAAYYYYYBEEEEES, but you'll notice they don't raise a single dime for research or spend a moment raising awareness about why miscarriages happen.
Oh no - they are perfectly happy when pregnancies end... as long as it's something that happens TO women.
It's only when it's something that happens BY women that they lose their fucking minds.
That says to me that they don't give a shit about pregnancies or babies... their real issue is the idea of women having agency or autonomy. We're not people to them... we're livestock.
Why aren't all women, along with every man who knows and cares about a woman in his life, voting out of office every fucking son and daughter of a bitch who enables these shitty laws and those shitty cops and social workers? Where is the fucking backlash?
That life begins with fertilization is such BS, The egg won't develop unless it implant in the uterus, the failure rate for that is high, then there are the frequent miscarriages, and the question of who owns a woman's body, the woman or the fetus. In the end the most sensible solution is to say Life begins with the baby's first breath. Just as life ends with a person's last breath.
There seems to be a consistent pattern that in states that allow public initiatives and someone gets a petition to legalize abortion, it passes. Bans on abortion seems to be something only God-bothers in politics care about.
i also applaud the measure to keep gender affirming care and related diagnoses under a security layer, it’s cool here but it isn’t everywhere, and also my health info should be more locked down than it is now
(my health ins co doesn’t have a right to invade my privacy and veto my dr about stuff just bc they want to keep my money and make it their profit)
A former associate of Melania Trump has sensationally claimed the first lady was an “escort” for Jeffrey Epstein and met the president through the notorious sex offender.Former Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro dropped the bombshell allegation on a taped recording, accusing her ex-partner, modeling agent-turned-presidential envoy Paolo Zampolli, of lying about introducing Melania and Donald Trump at a party in 1998
Oh yeah this article reminds me...anyone remember how some unreconstructed chumps were decrying the *decrease* in teen pregnancy in the USA? I was just thinking of that when reading the horrific events in this article.
I was also thinking about the Nazis at the Heritage Foundation with their Project 2026 forcing women out of the workplace and making them have more babies...
And maybe I’m being delusional, but I kind of think that if these states keep up this bullshit — taking kids away from their parents, taking parents away from their kids, making murder legal, etc. — their shitty abortion laws are not going to be long for this world.
One would hope, but… *indicates wider world beyond*
I worry more about all these children moved into the foster care system and the results of that. These unreconstructed states will also have to pay for all these people ... how is that going to work? Teen runaways, suicides, etc., etc. are going to be the results of this, not a major change in the occurences of unwanted teen pregnancies.
OT: I'm sorry. To me, this is shameful. Utterly fucking shameful. It you are now literally no longer able to read a book, put down the fucking electronics b/c they have seriously rotted your goddamned brain.
This world is now fucking stupid and disgusting to me. Many of its denizens are just irredeemable.
The tendency is far earlier than electronic media. In George Gissing's novel "New Grub Street" (1891), one of the characters is pushing a new newspaper with no articles less than two inches long, because as he says, the graduates of modern schools can't handle any more than that.
"Let me explain my principle. I would have the paper address itself to the quarter-educated; that is to say, the great new generation that is being turned out by the Board schools, the young men and women who can just read, but are incapable of sustained attention. People of this kind want something to occupy them in trains and on 'buses and trams. As a rule they care for no newspapers except the Sunday ones; what they want is the lightest and frothiest of chit-chatty information—bits of stories, bits of description, bits of scandal, bits of jokes, bits of statistics, bits of foolery. Am I not right? Everything must be very short, two inches at the utmost; their attention can't sustain itself beyond two inches. Even chat is too solid for them: they want chit-chat." ("New Grub Street," chapter 33).
By assuming that this is caused by modern technology, you are falling into the trap of blaming the shape of the bottle for the taste of the beer, and idealizing the past into the bargain.
Thank you for this article. One of the lasting symptoms of my TBI is an inability to hold the narrative of a book I might be reading... small articles, memos okay. But I need to re-learn this and I hope the article will halp.
I have recently been working on a super-secret rock concert rehearsal and screens are not allowed, for Reasons. So I have been re-reading Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. Once you get to the meat of the text (not the introduction and footnotes and such) it's AWESOME life lesson stuff.
The Meditations is the book I have shared the most. It’s actually easy to read and friendly as well as plainly wise. Now you’ve reminded me, it’s time to put that back on the top of the bedside pile. Thanks!
Yeah, that's a whole different ballgame. I had a friend who had that, and she wasn't even allowed to read or do anything difficult with her brain for awhile. Then she started reading again like you say. Small bites/chunks and then got closer back to her previous abilities.
I only have two classic novels: Catch-22 and Frankenstein. The thing about these novels is that they are considerably shorter than most of my modern fantasy novels. My copy of Frankenstein is only 166 pages long, whereas a Stormlight Archive novel tends to weigh in at around 1000 pages.
But I'm terminally online. I have to be online for my job, so shutting off the screen feels like a vacation.
People act like those books are so hard. They're not. And that's another thing. People have been scared away from longer, more complex sentences b/c everything now is so short and choppy b/c people have little pea brain attention spans. :(
Donald Trump has tapped a close ally to serve as the country’s top intelligence official, days after Tulsi Gabbard announced her exit from the role.
The US president said that Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), and heir to a home construction company fortune, will serve as acting director of national intelligence.
Pulte has used his role at the FHFA, which oversees regulations of the federal housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to publicly level of a string of extraordinary allegations at Trump’s political opponents and enemies.
“William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America,” Trump said on his Truth Social Platform. Pulte will remain director of the FHFA, the president said.
But, but my pony! Corporate Dems didn’t give me my pony! Here in California, only two make the ballot for every office but President. Is it ok if I just directly vote MAGA instead of the indirect chickenshit way, ie vote Green or Socialist or whatever.
I think the only reason these morons INSIST that fertilization is THE moment is because it's the last second that males take an active role in gestation and yes, they are THAT desperate to put men in control of everything, including pregnancy.
It never seems to occur to these assholes that reproduction is a process, not a fucking event.
Anyone who knows anything about human reproduction knows it's a chancy business - some biologists put the failure rate for fertilized eggs as high as 80%, meaning 80% of fertilized eggs fail to result in live birth. A lot of fertilized eggs just pass out of women's bodies without implanting and thus starting a pregnancy.
Once pregnancy is established, some estimates put the rate of miscarriage as high as 30%, often before the woman knows she's pregnant.
These antichoice assholes may claim that they're all about THE BAAAAAYYYYYBEEEEES, but you'll notice they don't raise a single dime for research or spend a moment raising awareness about why miscarriages happen.
Oh no - they are perfectly happy when pregnancies end... as long as it's something that happens TO women.
It's only when it's something that happens BY women that they lose their fucking minds.
That says to me that they don't give a shit about pregnancies or babies... their real issue is the idea of women having agency or autonomy. We're not people to them... we're livestock.
Why aren't all women, along with every man who knows and cares about a woman in his life, voting out of office every fucking son and daughter of a bitch who enables these shitty laws and those shitty cops and social workers? Where is the fucking backlash?
People are either numb because of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME
Or they work two jobs
Or they stock market.
ETA also the stenographers that the media pays write what they're told. The ONLY place I heard about the Let's-Murder-Anyone law was here on Wonkette.
That life begins with fertilization is such BS, The egg won't develop unless it implant in the uterus, the failure rate for that is high, then there are the frequent miscarriages, and the question of who owns a woman's body, the woman or the fetus. In the end the most sensible solution is to say Life begins with the baby's first breath. Just as life ends with a person's last breath.
There seems to be a consistent pattern that in states that allow public initiatives and someone gets a petition to legalize abortion, it passes. Bans on abortion seems to be something only God-bothers in politics care about.
Don't pro-choice policies consistently poll at 70% or 80%?
It's nice how CPS are ICE light.
i also applaud the measure to keep gender affirming care and related diagnoses under a security layer, it’s cool here but it isn’t everywhere, and also my health info should be more locked down than it is now
(my health ins co doesn’t have a right to invade my privacy and veto my dr about stuff just bc they want to keep my money and make it their profit)
For sure
Ta, Robyn. I hope you're correct and this bullshit won't last, but I won't be holding my breath.
Well, this is a LICENSE TO ILL!
Make some NOIS!!!!!
Every woman owns her own body.
Periotd.
Without exception.
If young women need that medication, give it to them.
Everything should be between a person and their own doctors.
OT from last night
First Prostitute
A former associate of Melania Trump has sensationally claimed the first lady was an “escort” for Jeffrey Epstein and met the president through the notorious sex offender.Former Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro dropped the bombshell allegation on a taped recording, accusing her ex-partner, modeling agent-turned-presidential envoy Paolo Zampolli, of lying about introducing Melania and Donald Trump at a party in 1998
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/melania-named-bombshell-epstein-claims-202245776.html
I’m shocked. Who would’ve thought? I guess we know why she protests much.
And I thought we had a Hallmark love story in the White House. So she wasn’t attracted to Donnie’s smile?
The only thing she wanted in Trump's pants...was his platinum AMEX card...
Not unless his smile was in his wallet.
It was the smile of Benjamin franklins.
Oh yeah this article reminds me...anyone remember how some unreconstructed chumps were decrying the *decrease* in teen pregnancy in the USA? I was just thinking of that when reading the horrific events in this article.
I was also thinking about the Nazis at the Heritage Foundation with their Project 2026 forcing women out of the workplace and making them have more babies...
Not qwhite their position
That’s missionary only. And for babies only.
Yes...their position of course is to make white women have more white babies to keep the white race on top...
Teen pregnancy. Letting 12-year olds marry. MAGA is weird.
And maybe I’m being delusional, but I kind of think that if these states keep up this bullshit — taking kids away from their parents, taking parents away from their kids, making murder legal, etc. — their shitty abortion laws are not going to be long for this world.
One would hope, but… *indicates wider world beyond*
I worry more about all these children moved into the foster care system and the results of that. These unreconstructed states will also have to pay for all these people ... how is that going to work? Teen runaways, suicides, etc., etc. are going to be the results of this, not a major change in the occurences of unwanted teen pregnancies.
They'll all be placed at the new Duggar Children's Center.
OT: I'm sorry. To me, this is shameful. Utterly fucking shameful. It you are now literally no longer able to read a book, put down the fucking electronics b/c they have seriously rotted your goddamned brain.
This world is now fucking stupid and disgusting to me. Many of its denizens are just irredeemable.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/02/classic-novels-relearn-how-to-read-distractions-screens
The tendency is far earlier than electronic media. In George Gissing's novel "New Grub Street" (1891), one of the characters is pushing a new newspaper with no articles less than two inches long, because as he says, the graduates of modern schools can't handle any more than that.
"Let me explain my principle. I would have the paper address itself to the quarter-educated; that is to say, the great new generation that is being turned out by the Board schools, the young men and women who can just read, but are incapable of sustained attention. People of this kind want something to occupy them in trains and on 'buses and trams. As a rule they care for no newspapers except the Sunday ones; what they want is the lightest and frothiest of chit-chatty information—bits of stories, bits of description, bits of scandal, bits of jokes, bits of statistics, bits of foolery. Am I not right? Everything must be very short, two inches at the utmost; their attention can't sustain itself beyond two inches. Even chat is too solid for them: they want chit-chat." ("New Grub Street," chapter 33).
By assuming that this is caused by modern technology, you are falling into the trap of blaming the shape of the bottle for the taste of the beer, and idealizing the past into the bargain.
Thank you for this article. One of the lasting symptoms of my TBI is an inability to hold the narrative of a book I might be reading... small articles, memos okay. But I need to re-learn this and I hope the article will halp.
I have recently been working on a super-secret rock concert rehearsal and screens are not allowed, for Reasons. So I have been re-reading Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. Once you get to the meat of the text (not the introduction and footnotes and such) it's AWESOME life lesson stuff.
The Meditations is the book I have shared the most. It’s actually easy to read and friendly as well as plainly wise. Now you’ve reminded me, it’s time to put that back on the top of the bedside pile. Thanks!
Yeah, that's a whole different ballgame. I had a friend who had that, and she wasn't even allowed to read or do anything difficult with her brain for awhile. Then she started reading again like you say. Small bites/chunks and then got closer back to her previous abilities.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. :(
Sad to say my reading habits have gone down hill in recent years. I do blame screens, the internet, social media, and other forms of mind rot.
Mine dipped but then I saw what was happening and I started reading difficult texts again.
Practice does help! I guess I’d better sign off now. (Waving)
I will make the effort in the summer.
I only have two classic novels: Catch-22 and Frankenstein. The thing about these novels is that they are considerably shorter than most of my modern fantasy novels. My copy of Frankenstein is only 166 pages long, whereas a Stormlight Archive novel tends to weigh in at around 1000 pages.
But I'm terminally online. I have to be online for my job, so shutting off the screen feels like a vacation.
Both are among my favorites!
But modern fantasy is reading, too, especially something that is 1,000 pages!
I really liked Frankenstein. The old-timey language really gives it a mood. I still find it hard to believe that it was written by a teenager.
Right? She was brilliant.
While it may be that electronics have rotted the author's mind, it's not clear to me that the problem isn't the choice of books he tried to read.
People act like those books are so hard. They're not. And that's another thing. People have been scared away from longer, more complex sentences b/c everything now is so short and choppy b/c people have little pea brain attention spans. :(
They always did. See above.
Not really. The technology we have is like nothing that has been put on people before.
Never before were people outsourcing their thinking like people are with AI.
Yes, we have had technology that contributed to this before. But not like this, IMO.
And don't get me started on how fucking DRACULA made the greatest 100 books!
I liked it but I don't think I would put it among the top 100 greatest books.
Did the CPS worker, who forced Dana to have the baby, ever do anything about the baby-dad who provided the life-giving sperm?
I mean aside from sending him a congratulations card and a medal and a book of discount coupons.
The baby dad is probably the CPS worker's kid.
Oh yeah...That CPS worker probably referred that baby dad to the local DA to start the child support process...
I think you answered your own question.
I’m just wondering if I missed anything. ;>)
OT
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟
𝑈𝑆 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐴𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒
Donald Trump has tapped a close ally to serve as the country’s top intelligence official, days after Tulsi Gabbard announced her exit from the role.
The US president said that Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), and heir to a home construction company fortune, will serve as acting director of national intelligence.
Pulte has used his role at the FHFA, which oversees regulations of the federal housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to publicly level of a string of extraordinary allegations at Trump’s political opponents and enemies.
“William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America,” Trump said on his Truth Social Platform. Pulte will remain director of the FHFA, the president said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/trump-bill-pulte-director-national-intelligence
🤮🤢
Oh great! That's like giving Chicolini the keys to Freedonia...
A smaller group covering more positions. Great.
I didn't think of it that way. That's pretty ominous. Well, more ominous than I was already thinking it was.
It really, really matters who is in office, for your rights.
The proof is in the pudding, when the unreconstructed party is in power you lose your freedoms.
But, but my pony! Corporate Dems didn’t give me my pony! Here in California, only two make the ballot for every office but President. Is it ok if I just directly vote MAGA instead of the indirect chickenshit way, ie vote Green or Socialist or whatever.