It turned out OK, and it was just a small surgery, but any surgery has risks, while having it done during a c-section is a tiny addition to an existing surgery. She asked about it after being medicated, so that was their excuse, and it was before e-charts, so her previous birth plan was unavailable. Still, they made it clear that it was because they didn't agree with the procedure.
Ta, Robyn. When I was of so-called reproductive age, I was always careful not to get pregnant. I never wanted kids, I'm glad my loved and loving husband has none, and I never had an abortion because I never needed one.
Most abortion-seekers already have children, and many simply cannot afford another mouth to feed. And sorry, Xtians, there's not word one against abortion in your holey book. Apart from all that, to the god-botherers I say this: Between 37% and 50% of ALL first trimester pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, better known as miscarriage. The number can't be pinned down because it's common for that to happen before awareness of the pregnancy. Thus, if one believes in God the Father, he's the Supreme Abortionist-in-Chief. Deal with it.
Forgot to mention in my earlier comment about how obscene the rates were for an abortion before mifepristone was available. The prices were with and without anesthesia. Most chose to go without because of cost.
Yes about the Senate, but with a Democratic president elected in 2028, there wouldn't be any conservative nominees until at least 2032 -- six years from now.
Genesis. Eve ate the fruit and wrecked it for Adam in spite him doing the same. Hence, woman are to blame for everything and deserve nothing. Only a man can reward/punish because he would have stayed in Paradise if it wasn't for that bitch.
I'm not being flippent with that snippet of theology.
Requiring a drug to be prescribed by and picked up from a doctor in person can and has been challenged on the grounds that it is a violation of the ADA. They tried that shit with prescription opiates15-or-so years ago when they wouldn't even allow my physician to fax the prescription to a pharmacy...I had to drive to the doctor's office, go inside, pick up the paper copy, and drop it off at the pharmacy. That's kinda hard to do if 1) you don't have transportation and/or 2) you have mobility issues and/or 3) you are in excruciating pain and can't walk or drive.
Also, I don't think Louisiana can tell another state how they can and can't issue prescriptions, or prevent a Louisiana resident from traveling to another state for whatever reason they might have to do so.
This medication is so important. I worked at two women's clinics as a counselor. We had one Dr. who serviced both. (30 plus women at one location in the morning, 30 more in the afternoon. What they charged before the medication was available was obscene.
"A study published Monday by the journal Nature Sustainability warns that New Orleans must immediately begin planning and gradually implementing its permanent evacuation to avert a dangerously rushed exodus later, because it has passed a “point of no return” as climate-driven sea-level rise slowly swallows the storied city.
“Louisiana is a canary in the coal mine. It is one of the rare places where we’re already clearly seeing climate-motivated depopulation combined with other social and economic factors,” said Yale School of the Environment professor and study co-author Brianna Castro.
"The authors argued that by acknowledging the inevitability of New Orleans’ underwater future, government and residents can avert a fraught rushed retreat by planning and executing a managed multigenerational relocation and set an example for other threatened coastal communities.
This is the United States. We bury our heads in the sand and the rushed emergency evacuations after a few more Katrina's hit will probably be our future.
I'm sure that the coast of the state where I live - North Carolina - will be underwater, but our Republican-controlled government keeps propping up real estate developers and doesn't even allow mentioning climate change in official state documents.
You'll likely see companies stop offering insurance in these areas that might cause some migration, but there's too much influence by developers and other business interests that make any reasonable long-term approaches impossible.
Part of the reason why we passed this point of no return is because (surprise!) our idiot governor cancelled a massive coastal restoration program because the oystermen in Plaquemines Parish (where the project was located) complained that it was killing off their livelihoods.
Guess which parish has also lost the most land to the Gulf and is basically the reason why New Orleans will be underwater a lot sooner than expected?
Three times? Seriously, no one takes a dementia test three times unless there are concerns of dementia. Beyond that, we only have his word he passed and he's a well known liar. To top it off, he's bragging about how hard they are!
Journalists just laugh along with him. The man is bragging that he's had multiple tests for dementia and that they are actually very tricky, and he happens also to have the power to end all life on earth bigger than insects.
Next step? Make birth control pills illegal. Then make IUDs illegal. The get rid of women's right to vote. Then require that married women's wages be paid to their husbands. The stop allowing women into graduate schools. Then stop allowing women into college. Then require parental permission for girls to go to high school.
Does this sound like I am being hysterical?
**Birth control pills were only approved in 1960 and did not come into widespread use until the 1970s.
**1974 banks began allowing women to get credit cards and mortgages in their own name without a husband's or father's permission
**Until about 1980 married women could not get a tubal ligation without their husband's consent. And single women were routinely denied tubal ligations. Last year, one of my young, unmarried relatives had to travel almost 100 miles for a tubal ligation because the two gynecologists in town refused to perform the procedure. She was not married yet.
** Women's wages were routinely paid to husbands or fathers through the 19th century. Some of those laws did not come off the books till after the Civil War.
**1920 was when women got the right to vote
**1979 The phone company was forced to hire women into technical positions
** Title IX was passed in 1972
** Harvard started admitting women into medical school in 1945
My cousin's wife went into labor with her 3rd child unexpectedly, while out of town. She had a previous c-section delivery, snd at the time it was recommended subsequent pregnancies be delivered as c-sections. She had planned, with her ObGyn, to have her tubes tied during the procedure. The Catholic hospital where she ended up delivering refused to do the ligation, forcing her to undergo an additional surgery a few months later.
My mom, a divorced mother of 3 in 1970, was refused all credit cards but a gas card, despite a decade of careful and sound financial planning. She was a woman.
Oh yes! I graduated high school in 1966, so I remember many of these things. I got my first major credit card in about 1980. One reason store cards became so popular was that they were issued by department stores to women and had very low credit limits.
I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin's wife. These denials of medical care based on so called religion should be prosecuted as criminal acts. I know that tubal ligations these days are a very benign surgery BUT no surgery is without risk. (especially from infection)
I used to date a single woman of childbearing age who was refused a tubal ligation a decade or so ago because she would surely change her mind about being a mother.
The day that person becomes a mother, we’re all a little worse off.
When I took my young relative to the doc who did the tubal ligation, she started crying. Poor thing walked in with talking points to convince the doc. Doc grabbed her hand and said, "hey, you're an adult. It's your body."
It turned out OK, and it was just a small surgery, but any surgery has risks, while having it done during a c-section is a tiny addition to an existing surgery. She asked about it after being medicated, so that was their excuse, and it was before e-charts, so her previous birth plan was unavailable. Still, they made it clear that it was because they didn't agree with the procedure.
I wonder is there a way that a supermajority Democrat Congress both chambers could force every state to hold a referendum on abortion?
Ta, Robyn. When I was of so-called reproductive age, I was always careful not to get pregnant. I never wanted kids, I'm glad my loved and loving husband has none, and I never had an abortion because I never needed one.
Most abortion-seekers already have children, and many simply cannot afford another mouth to feed. And sorry, Xtians, there's not word one against abortion in your holey book. Apart from all that, to the god-botherers I say this: Between 37% and 50% of ALL first trimester pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, better known as miscarriage. The number can't be pinned down because it's common for that to happen before awareness of the pregnancy. Thus, if one believes in God the Father, he's the Supreme Abortionist-in-Chief. Deal with it.
Forgot to mention in my earlier comment about how obscene the rates were for an abortion before mifepristone was available. The prices were with and without anesthesia. Most chose to go without because of cost.
"if Democrats win in 2028, they’d have to hold on to their seats for six more years from now — at least — in order to keep the ratio up."
I too wish that were so. But it is not.
1/3 of the United States Senate goes up for election every 2 years.
Yes about the Senate, but with a Democratic president elected in 2028, there wouldn't be any conservative nominees until at least 2032 -- six years from now.
I don’t think my heart can handle knowing why republicans want to coerce females to have babies.
Genesis. Eve ate the fruit and wrecked it for Adam in spite him doing the same. Hence, woman are to blame for everything and deserve nothing. Only a man can reward/punish because he would have stayed in Paradise if it wasn't for that bitch.
I'm not being flippent with that snippet of theology.
Requiring a drug to be prescribed by and picked up from a doctor in person can and has been challenged on the grounds that it is a violation of the ADA. They tried that shit with prescription opiates15-or-so years ago when they wouldn't even allow my physician to fax the prescription to a pharmacy...I had to drive to the doctor's office, go inside, pick up the paper copy, and drop it off at the pharmacy. That's kinda hard to do if 1) you don't have transportation and/or 2) you have mobility issues and/or 3) you are in excruciating pain and can't walk or drive.
Also, I don't think Louisiana can tell another state how they can and can't issue prescriptions, or prevent a Louisiana resident from traveling to another state for whatever reason they might have to do so.
"According to reports, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are not planning to retire this year, but both are nearing that age."
What was the pillow brand Antonin Scalia was using? We should send some to Alito and Thomas.
If only the funds weren't going to Mike Liddell, I'd say send MyPillow.
Laura Ingraham: Apparently Canada intends to become a province of Europe.
I thought it was China. Make up your mind.
They should inquire with Great Britain. I understand the language difference can be
overcome.
Forget "keep the ratio up." Expand and reform the courts.
This medication is so important. I worked at two women's clinics as a counselor. We had one Dr. who serviced both. (30 plus women at one location in the morning, 30 more in the afternoon. What they charged before the medication was available was obscene.
"Derby winner, Golden Tempo, refuses to visit the White House! He said, "If I wanted to see a horse's ass I would've come in 2nd".
I swear to fuck Mondays are getting worse that they used to be :/
good thing yrrrrrrrr
smoking lamp is lit nao okay!
that was a minute and a half late - FUCK!
(I am having many small things not go well today :[
am for grrrrrr and I wish I were not )
What I want to know is when Mar-A-Lago will sink to the bottom of the ocean. I'd like to be there to take pictures, lots and lots of pictures.
https://www.rawstory.com/new-orleans-must-immediately-plan-evacuation-after-terrifying-finding-experts/
"A study published Monday by the journal Nature Sustainability warns that New Orleans must immediately begin planning and gradually implementing its permanent evacuation to avert a dangerously rushed exodus later, because it has passed a “point of no return” as climate-driven sea-level rise slowly swallows the storied city.
“Louisiana is a canary in the coal mine. It is one of the rare places where we’re already clearly seeing climate-motivated depopulation combined with other social and economic factors,” said Yale School of the Environment professor and study co-author Brianna Castro.
"The authors argued that by acknowledging the inevitability of New Orleans’ underwater future, government and residents can avert a fraught rushed retreat by planning and executing a managed multigenerational relocation and set an example for other threatened coastal communities.
This is the United States. We bury our heads in the sand and the rushed emergency evacuations after a few more Katrina's hit will probably be our future.
I'm sure that the coast of the state where I live - North Carolina - will be underwater, but our Republican-controlled government keeps propping up real estate developers and doesn't even allow mentioning climate change in official state documents.
You'll likely see companies stop offering insurance in these areas that might cause some migration, but there's too much influence by developers and other business interests that make any reasonable long-term approaches impossible.
Part of the reason why we passed this point of no return is because (surprise!) our idiot governor cancelled a massive coastal restoration program because the oystermen in Plaquemines Parish (where the project was located) complained that it was killing off their livelihoods.
Guess which parish has also lost the most land to the Gulf and is basically the reason why New Orleans will be underwater a lot sooner than expected?
OT
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ml2i75mvpz23
He's bragging about his cognitive tests again.
Three times? Seriously, no one takes a dementia test three times unless there are concerns of dementia. Beyond that, we only have his word he passed and he's a well known liar. To top it off, he's bragging about how hard they are!
I have to take yearly as part of my physical per Medicare. I can pass the initial test, no problem. It's the more expansive tests that I fail.
I wish someone would ask him which question was the most difficult.
Mary Trump Takes the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50xFvt9Sao
Journalists just laugh along with him. The man is bragging that he's had multiple tests for dementia and that they are actually very tricky, and he happens also to have the power to end all life on earth bigger than insects.
If you've had more than one in a decade...
Other presidents didn't have to take cognitive exams because they weren't demonstrably demented, you sad turdclown.
"Oh no, they're going to give me a dementia test once I'm sworn in!"
"Don't worry, William..."
"Eh?"
"Sorry, President Elect Harrison, it's not until after your first month. And I think they even delay it if you're ill."
"...hmm."
(some exceptions apply)
Those aren't the same items he said before.
I think he's lying to us about the questions.
What!!?? Lying you say?? Impossible! When has he ever lied about anything? (in the last 5 minutes anyway)
Non compos mentis
Squirrel!
I thought the same thing... but in my head, his entire cabinet frantically ran through a doggie door when he said "squirrel".
🤪
Next step? Make birth control pills illegal. Then make IUDs illegal. The get rid of women's right to vote. Then require that married women's wages be paid to their husbands. The stop allowing women into graduate schools. Then stop allowing women into college. Then require parental permission for girls to go to high school.
Does this sound like I am being hysterical?
**Birth control pills were only approved in 1960 and did not come into widespread use until the 1970s.
**1974 banks began allowing women to get credit cards and mortgages in their own name without a husband's or father's permission
**Until about 1980 married women could not get a tubal ligation without their husband's consent. And single women were routinely denied tubal ligations. Last year, one of my young, unmarried relatives had to travel almost 100 miles for a tubal ligation because the two gynecologists in town refused to perform the procedure. She was not married yet.
** Women's wages were routinely paid to husbands or fathers through the 19th century. Some of those laws did not come off the books till after the Civil War.
**1920 was when women got the right to vote
**1979 The phone company was forced to hire women into technical positions
** Title IX was passed in 1972
** Harvard started admitting women into medical school in 1945
....................................................................
ALL OF THIS.
My cousin's wife went into labor with her 3rd child unexpectedly, while out of town. She had a previous c-section delivery, snd at the time it was recommended subsequent pregnancies be delivered as c-sections. She had planned, with her ObGyn, to have her tubes tied during the procedure. The Catholic hospital where she ended up delivering refused to do the ligation, forcing her to undergo an additional surgery a few months later.
My mom, a divorced mother of 3 in 1970, was refused all credit cards but a gas card, despite a decade of careful and sound financial planning. She was a woman.
Catlicks. *SPIT*
Oh yes! I graduated high school in 1966, so I remember many of these things. I got my first major credit card in about 1980. One reason store cards became so popular was that they were issued by department stores to women and had very low credit limits.
I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin's wife. These denials of medical care based on so called religion should be prosecuted as criminal acts. I know that tubal ligations these days are a very benign surgery BUT no surgery is without risk. (especially from infection)
I used to date a single woman of childbearing age who was refused a tubal ligation a decade or so ago because she would surely change her mind about being a mother.
The day that person becomes a mother, we’re all a little worse off.
When I took my young relative to the doc who did the tubal ligation, she started crying. Poor thing walked in with talking points to convince the doc. Doc grabbed her hand and said, "hey, you're an adult. It's your body."
If you were dating her, wasn't she not single?
No. They were both SINGLE because they weren't MARRIED.
JFC!
It was a joke, not a legal analysis.
The use of /s is not only hugely beneficial but vital now whenever attempting to make a joke online.
Unmarried.