Sunday Snippets: Happy holidays!

Hope the end of the year is everything you need it to be.

School Boundary Analysis Plan Outlined

Groundbreaking South Carolina Bill: Compensate People for Forcing Them to Give Birth

There's A Gay Guy Dressing Up As Mike Pence Collecting Money For Planned Parenthood

'Anything you want, take it’: A downsizing party after 45 years in the same house

India builds detention camps for up to 1.9m people ‘stripped of citizenship’ in Assam

Riley Howell, Who Died Stopping UNC Charlotte Shooter, Honored As Star Wars Jedi

She Helped Inspire The Wire And Oversaw The Weinstein Investigation. Meet Rebecca Corbett.

Sunday Snippets: Booing at baseball

The video of Mango Mussolini getting booed at a baseball game is gorgeous. Almost as gorgeous as the video of Mitch McConnell getting dissed at a funeral.

Justice Department Announces Plan To Collect DNA From Migrants Crossing The Border

DeVos Will Recommend the Removal of Civil Rights Protections for Students of Color

Your pregnancy discrimination stories prove there are no easy answers

Maryland Universities Draw Protests And Some Support Over ICE Contracts

The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time

All the Pregnancies I Couldn’t Talk About

New Oregon Bill Would Allow Black People to Sue Folks Who Make Frivolous 911 Calls with Racist Intent

Missouri health director kept spreadsheet of Planned Parenthood patients’ periods

Children were told to ‘build the wall’ at White House Halloween party

Sunday Snippets: Prenatal Massage

I love massages and prenatal massages have really helped during my pregnancy. I have my last one today before the bebe makes his debut in a few weeks.

Senators Say Trump Admin Hasn’t Released Hurricane Aid to Puerto Rico

Democrats force Senate vote on net neutrality

Statement by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., update on recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, and continued efforts to mitigate IV saline and amino acid drug shortages

Maryland will join alliance of states supporting Paris climate agreement, Hogan says

How a Miscarriage Affected My Sex Life

The Secret Evangelicals at Planned Parenthood

Sunday Snippets: Yay spring colds

My husband had one last week and was kind enough to pass it on to me this week. I have blown enough snot out of my face to raft down it.

Mike Pence Breaks Senate Tie To Allow States To Defund Planned Parenthood

US Racist History some of this I didn't know

I want a cow named Bessie

Had never really considered this

Why White Women Must Make the Equal-Pay Fight More Inclusive

Super cool!

Abortion Ban & Miscarriage

I was just shy of six weeks pregnant (first few weeks you aren't technically, since they base the due date on the day of your last period) when I started spotting and eventually miscarried.

Steve King put forth HR 490, which states "that an abortion provider 'who knowingly performs an abortion and thereby kills a human fetus' without determining a heartbeat, informing the patient of a heartbeat, or proceeding regardless of a heartbeat would face fines and up to five years in prison. The bill includes limited exceptions for the physical health of the pregnant person but not for 'psychological or emotional conditions.'"

The sesame seed (the size of the clump of cells I hoped would eventually yield the newest member of our family) that grew for a short while inside me would have been deemed a baby and thus protected by this sexist bill. Yes, this eventual child was very much wanted, but what about for the person who was pregnant and didn't want to be, for a variety of reasons?

People who can bear children across the US have told, wrote and shared their stories about abortions, wanted children and everything in between. But the sad fact is that many Republicans in Congress just don't care. They don't care about people who bear children being seen as people with complex lives. They are forced birthers and while Planned Parenthood does amazing, life saving work beyond abortions, I, for one, think we should stop minimizing abortions.

Abortions are safe medical procedures that many people have. I know four people in my close community that have had them. And there is nothing wrong about them. I don't give a good goddamn why someone has an abortion; if they feel incapable of caring for a child, then why do I care if they have an abortion?

Abortion without apology. It's a perfectly legitimate procedure and I'm beyond tired of seeing it demonized.