Huh I didn’t know this. In Canada it’s like the opposite. Go to the hospital or break something or doctor check in all free, but contraception you’ve gotta pay.

From the article:

Since 2012, the Affordable Care Act has mandated that private insurance plans cover the “full range” of contraceptives for women approved by the Food and Drug Administration, including female sterilizations, emergency contraceptives and any new products cleared by the F.D.A. The mandate also covers services associated with contraceptives, like counseling, insertions or removals and follow-up care.

Wow I had no idea. The dates on these articles are all over the place too.

Thank you for this read. I was commenting by and wouldn’t have posted those comments until I saw you understood.

Eli5?

Same experience. Right down to debate watching hoping for something to hang on to!

Just watched a good episode of Jon Stewart’s podcast about abortion and some of the legal challenges going on. Jon shares a bit about his experience with IVF and his wife’s medical scare after birth. Very knowledgeable guests.

https://youtu.be/F8253iXh1X0?feature=shared

Uh oh I’ve not heard about those!

Can you eli5? Or like I’m a dumb dumb idiot? Please.

Electricity is one of those things I so badly want to understand and just seem to not be able to.

Why is there a preference for sons? Is it because they would traditionally get better jobs and take care of their parents or…?

Really good John Oliver about libraries recently. Informative but has some good recommendations on what kinds of actions to take: https://youtu.be/42xZB80sZaI?feature=shared

No shit that’s what it’s signalling. That’s what it’s doing. Pretty brazenly and openly.

That’s a part of anxiety/fear manufacturing.

And your people away from soldierhood.

My favourite is fork.

Question. Do other animals care about the northern lights? Do any of them watch it?

America. You ok bro?

What does ctrl W do?

Ugh. Tim Hortons is doing this too. Why.

Double negative confused me for a second and I was sad. Opposes the ban! Want gender affirming care available. Excellent.

I grew up with a gay-hating mother. She felt like it was a choice and had lots of books on the matter. It wasn’t until my mid twenties I thought… “who the fuck needs this many books on gay being a choice??”

Lo and behold, a few years later my sister comes out and my mom chastises her because of course you can choose, look at her choosing (after a few rounds of conversation therapy). She couldn’t stand seeing my sister as a happy lesbian and my theory is that it’s because she would never be able to admit to herself that SHE herself could be a happy lesbian if she’d been brave and made different choices.

Anecdotal of course, but…