My daughter is 34 and the other night started watching "House" reruns after work. She said to me "Mom, I'm stunned. The way women were treated in this show is appalling and it wasn't that long ago." I told her that women have been working very hard for generations to get where we are today. So have blacks, LGBTQ folks, etc. It has taken years to acquire the rights afforded men for centuries. That is why it is all so precious and dear. So many tears have gone into getting where we are and I have lived through so much so that you wouldn't have to. This is why this next election is so important for your generation. If Republicans win, you will be fighting all over again for your sons and daughters. Two steps forward, three back. Young people need to vote. They have no idea what they will lose if they don't.
Regarding our country's future, I too have become more pessimistic. I wondered how 45 percent of voters could possibly support a presidential candidate who has publicly demonstrated his lack of fitness in character, morals, and ethics to hold any elective office.
Then I realized Donald Trump has gained his support precisely because of his behavior: His vows to exact retribution from his political opponents - both Democrats and Republicans - excites his supporters. His lying, cheating and hate for our American institutions like our justice system speak for many of them.
It's been clear that Trump appeals to a large segment of American voters not despite his corruption, but because of it. I fear that our country may have already lost its democratic values.
Certainly hope you are wrong. I’d hate to think that 45 percent of the people out there are raising their children to be corrupt. That said, I remember running a poll - totally unscientific - on Post-Star website in 2018 asking readers if they believed politicians should not lie. About 100 people replied and 80 percent said they should not lie. That sounded good, until I considered that 20 percent seemed to be saying it was OK to lie. Maybe that 20 percent has grown.
I hope I'm wrong, too. But we have to be realistic about what the support for Donald Trump reveals about his supporters and our country.
The figure of 45 percent of our country's voters supporting a demonstrably corrupt presidential candidate is an estimate based on voting results in 2016 and 2020, as well as current polls.
Trump openly advocates retribution against political opponents. He openly says he'll be a dictator on day 1 if elected. He openly disputes the results of his 2020 electoral loss despite failing to provide evidence in over 60 court cases. He has vowed to pardon the criminals who on January 6, 2021, violently assaulted law enforcement at the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of Joe Biden's legitimate election as president.
Trump's supporters know exactly who they are voting for. They are not misinformed or misunderstand. It's not logical or reasonable for someone to support Trump's election in 2024 unless they support or condone political violence and Trump's own authoritarian behavior that he demonstrated in the past and demonstrates currently.
No matter the outcome of the 2024 election, the fact that a large segment of voters supports a corrupt and unfit candidate means, I think, our country may already be beyond redemption.
Sitting here in my humble abode far from the bustle and busyness of the world. I read this article sipping two obligatory cups of Java. Now awake I'll say there is much to be wary of in the coming year. Wars rage on between the Ukraine and Russia as well as Palestine and Israel. China's last comment I read on reunification was unchanged. Not if but when.
This could be a game changer. North Korea? OK well, as always a dicey situation. Been this way for so long it seems normal? Scary thought for sure.
Elise Stefanik, our little glimmer of Trumpism and morality at a her usual low. Yes her antics seem like a moment of one upping an authority figure to me. Yes the stroke a pen a word is all it takes to tip the balance of calm and civility.
I'll say Happy New Year.
I'll live humbly as my Grandfather said and did. I'll live with the faith my Father and Mother instilled in me. I'll wear my humanity on my sleeve. I'll try and lake my corner of the world better than I found it.
I need to recommend....another book. I really wondered IF I was going to be able to work my way through Rachel Maddow's latest book....Prequel. It's too bad some won't read it simply because it IS by Maddow...but I am really horrified with the history in this country of the march of Fascism, over and over. Turns out....Maddow writes it as a very readable, highly researched story, and here we are now, within another gigantic wave of circumstances that keep happening, pushing Fascism. It's never really disappeared and people like Stefanik fit right in as a piece of the plan being put together. Truly frightening. There have been amazing people who have been almost lost in the attention they deserve for trying so hard to protect what this country set out to be. Maddow brings a lot of the names into focus. Are there enough of those kinds of people working now, when we so desperately need them? Ken, YOU are certainly one of them with your column.
you could have stopped there. I will think about that book, but my list has been and continues to be a long list of books
And you mentioned pos_tKKK, there within is the problem... if you look at her, if you look at her supporters... they don't read.
pos_tKKK used to post her reading list.. but I guess that became too elite for her supporters and SADLY too real for people who know her evil.
She didn't read non-fiction
so she didn't read anything about history or policy
She read fluff. Books that might be on the NYT list, but books that would be considered 'beach reads'. And even in that she read maybe five books a year (probably still true, and there is no reason to believe she is educating herself)
I don't have to say this, but I will, none (NONE) were prize-winning books.
Worst of all by not reading
She was not reading anything that had to do with policy that she regularly votes on.
There are lots of books to read and it would be difficult to read as much as say Barack Obama did (you know someone who valued knowledge), but to not read... is a example of how the gQp sentences themselves to ignorance.
The price of freedom in a democratic society is that people can believe some really awful things - and have. In the past they have always been in the minority, but you start to wonder if they that is the case anymore.
I hate to sound like an old fogey, but I just wish people would be better informed. They don't have a daily, reliable news source. For $19. a month you can get the Times Union E-Edition 7 days a week that covers International, National and has a good opinions section. My fear is that 2024 will play out badly because people are disengaged and don't understand what's at stake.
Since my retirement I now subscribe to multiple daily newspapers as part of my daily news diet. It is essential to do that to be an informed citizen. Consider that you probably pay over $200 for cable TV and maybe antlers $200 for your phone and Wi-Fi. Honestly, newspapers subscriptions are cheap.
Your post is so on point. I don’t worry for myself but I am terrified about the future for my children and grandchildren. 2023 was a horrible year for my family but I am afraid 2024 may be worse.
My son is not married, but I tell him all the town he should think very seriously about whether he should bring a child into this world. I fear for his future more than my own.
I watched friends come home from Viet Nam in body bags, students gunned down at Kent State University, American Icons President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinated. Every generation faces challenges and people will always disagree but it's the battle which makes us stronger, and quitting should never be an option.
Another great albeit depressing column, Ken. I would disagree, however, with the observation that few of us have had to fight for our rights. We may feel safe and snug (smug?) here in the reasonable state of New York, but women and girls (!) across the country are fighting for access to basic health care. If the wrong person ends up in the White House, women and girls in NY will be at personal risk.
A woman who has a miscarriage needs a D&C. This is classified as an abortion. In many states a woman whose pregnancy threatens her life is denied a lifesaving procedure. I stand by my statement.
Every woman I have known to miscarry after more than a few weeks in pregnancy had required a D and C to clear her uterus. Men cannot miscarry or ever comprehend the huge physical concerns around pregnancy. After you grow a uterus, you can preach to other women your opinions about our bodily functions.
Did you read it? Do you understand how complex and varied miscarriage can be? Do you understand that pregnancy and/or miscarriage can endanger a woman’s life and alter her future health? I am curious if any woman you may be acquainted with has suffered a miscarriage? And “suffer” is the proper verb here. Do you speak from personal experience?
Thank you, for a very reflective column today. It is very hard these days to feel inspirational about our state of the world, and our country as our political leaders try to navigate the many difficult issues, that appear almost as mine fields. I would ask you to try to point to the positive accomplishments of our local municipal and county political leaders. Sometimes, they appear as small in nature but have greater consequences. Could you weigh in on those as you have a greater grasp than most reporters in this area, now an independent journalist with considerable longevity that does not feel the necessity simply to be a cheer leader ? I ask this as I have reflected on the state of past local journalism. Personally, and in the interest of transparency, it was difficult, for example, to read the coverage of the Post Star when my late husband, Richard Dudley, was Councilman-at- Large, especially regarding the Municipal Power initiative. As an independent journalist I think you have far greater impact and are able to provide greater clarity on many local issues, particularly political in nature, and hopefully with some inspiration. Speaking of inspiration, I recently saw the movie, Boys in the Boat, an excellent movie that in many ways speaks to our time, and is truly inspirational ! Thank you for columns they are of great service to our community.
As to 2024, I am not an optimist, because I am not sure things will turn out okay. But neither am I a pessimist, because I am not sure things will turn out badly. But I am a person of hope I live in the hope that people of conscience will speak up and act, and that our democratic institutions will prevail.
I think you are confusing a person’s general everyday outlook about life with pragmatic decision-making. I think everyone should think long and hard before they bring a child into the world. I know I did. Far too many don’t think about it at all.
Having taught high school English for 25 years, I can attest to the fact that not many students have any clue as to the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Until we start reading “ real” history in school, travesties like these are more likely to continue. Hate is learned- we are not born hateful.
How do you teach a seventh grader that the person who penned “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” owned slaves?
Perhaps one can although I would wager there would be push back from parents just like there was when common core standards were proposed. How does one explain the founding fathers were fighting for freedom while denying others the very thing the founders claim to be fighting for? Unless the Revolutionary War was not about freedom but something else and freedom just a rallying cry.
Hmmm… “Honest truths” is there such a thing as dishonest truths?
HI Dennis I went to an article titled “Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: One-in-Five Mail-In Voters Admit to Committing at Least One Kind of Voter Fraud During 2020 Election” I was unable to find the survey in question. The only thing I could find was a percentage of the people that responded to the question in the affirmative
Do you have a link to the survey its self?
“Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.” - Vin Scully
We traveled over an hour to reach a GI specialist two weeks ago and during our visit she told us some of their patients travel between two and three hours from the north. To me this is a true crisis in healthcare for CD 21, but not an issue for Elise, she is busy crowing about bringing down higher education. It seems that among those “elites” that she and her cohorts are determined to destroy are specialists in the health field.
Those of us who life in Glens Falls are a little spoiled. The health facilities here continue to grow and expand while the rest of the North Country is not nearly as lucky.
I agree...with the fear, with the possibility. When Ken Burns was asked why he did the PBS on the US and the Holocaust he said something like: those people in the film throwing stones, killing people, denying and supporting the Nazis were like us....and we can be like them..... ..And many of us are--willfully ignorant, choosing not to see,-- or consciously complicit to gain power (like Stefanik and most Republicans in leadership positions who do not speak out). Hard to believe that people would/could sell their "soul"--but they have, now and throughout history. If Trump should win, resistance will be iimpossible, (think of the students in the white rose movement in Germany who wrote leaflets imploring people to wake up--and were executed). so it is important to speak out and hope that we will all awaken to what nourishes freedom and democracy.
These sadistic Tucker trolls, and others who thrive on pitting people against each other… about topics they will never have to cope with… make me sick. My visceral response which will no doubt give them a cheap thrill.
FACT: Even men who are raped will never have to worry about becoming pregnant by their rapist…or be unable to rid their uterus of retained products of conception which can, and often do lead to sepsis/death if timely accessible health care is unavailable.
FACT: As a nurse for almost 40 years, I witnessed some horrific outcomes of patients’ planned and unplanned pregnancies and miscarriages. Their sperm donors never suffered a moment of hemorrhage, physical pain, or penile scarring from those lost pregnancies.
As a recovering Catholic woman, I adopted the following quote from the 1980’s whenever men would claim to know best about women’s’ health choices. It fits the current sicko macho male and far -too - many GOP females’ determination to control/condemn women’s rights to determine what does/doesn’t happen with their reproductive organs…
“IF MEN COULD BECOME PREGNANT…ABORTION WOULD BECOME A SACRAMENT.”
Sussan within the link I supplied to Bridget under Risks and Complications of D&C what in your medical opinion would you disagree with? Do you agree or disagree with the Key Takeaway at the bottom of the page?
My daughter is 34 and the other night started watching "House" reruns after work. She said to me "Mom, I'm stunned. The way women were treated in this show is appalling and it wasn't that long ago." I told her that women have been working very hard for generations to get where we are today. So have blacks, LGBTQ folks, etc. It has taken years to acquire the rights afforded men for centuries. That is why it is all so precious and dear. So many tears have gone into getting where we are and I have lived through so much so that you wouldn't have to. This is why this next election is so important for your generation. If Republicans win, you will be fighting all over again for your sons and daughters. Two steps forward, three back. Young people need to vote. They have no idea what they will lose if they don't.
There definitely feels like there is a movement afoot to go backwards.
Regarding our country's future, I too have become more pessimistic. I wondered how 45 percent of voters could possibly support a presidential candidate who has publicly demonstrated his lack of fitness in character, morals, and ethics to hold any elective office.
Then I realized Donald Trump has gained his support precisely because of his behavior: His vows to exact retribution from his political opponents - both Democrats and Republicans - excites his supporters. His lying, cheating and hate for our American institutions like our justice system speak for many of them.
It's been clear that Trump appeals to a large segment of American voters not despite his corruption, but because of it. I fear that our country may have already lost its democratic values.
Certainly hope you are wrong. I’d hate to think that 45 percent of the people out there are raising their children to be corrupt. That said, I remember running a poll - totally unscientific - on Post-Star website in 2018 asking readers if they believed politicians should not lie. About 100 people replied and 80 percent said they should not lie. That sounded good, until I considered that 20 percent seemed to be saying it was OK to lie. Maybe that 20 percent has grown.
I hope I'm wrong, too. But we have to be realistic about what the support for Donald Trump reveals about his supporters and our country.
The figure of 45 percent of our country's voters supporting a demonstrably corrupt presidential candidate is an estimate based on voting results in 2016 and 2020, as well as current polls.
Trump openly advocates retribution against political opponents. He openly says he'll be a dictator on day 1 if elected. He openly disputes the results of his 2020 electoral loss despite failing to provide evidence in over 60 court cases. He has vowed to pardon the criminals who on January 6, 2021, violently assaulted law enforcement at the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of Joe Biden's legitimate election as president.
Trump's supporters know exactly who they are voting for. They are not misinformed or misunderstand. It's not logical or reasonable for someone to support Trump's election in 2024 unless they support or condone political violence and Trump's own authoritarian behavior that he demonstrated in the past and demonstrates currently.
No matter the outcome of the 2024 election, the fact that a large segment of voters supports a corrupt and unfit candidate means, I think, our country may already be beyond redemption.
But yes, I do hope I'm wrong.
Sitting here in my humble abode far from the bustle and busyness of the world. I read this article sipping two obligatory cups of Java. Now awake I'll say there is much to be wary of in the coming year. Wars rage on between the Ukraine and Russia as well as Palestine and Israel. China's last comment I read on reunification was unchanged. Not if but when.
This could be a game changer. North Korea? OK well, as always a dicey situation. Been this way for so long it seems normal? Scary thought for sure.
Elise Stefanik, our little glimmer of Trumpism and morality at a her usual low. Yes her antics seem like a moment of one upping an authority figure to me. Yes the stroke a pen a word is all it takes to tip the balance of calm and civility.
I'll say Happy New Year.
I'll live humbly as my Grandfather said and did. I'll live with the faith my Father and Mother instilled in me. I'll wear my humanity on my sleeve. I'll try and lake my corner of the world better than I found it.
If only our elected leaders would do the same.
We all have to do our part in this coming year and beyond to protect democracy. So grateful you do your part so well.
I need to recommend....another book. I really wondered IF I was going to be able to work my way through Rachel Maddow's latest book....Prequel. It's too bad some won't read it simply because it IS by Maddow...but I am really horrified with the history in this country of the march of Fascism, over and over. Turns out....Maddow writes it as a very readable, highly researched story, and here we are now, within another gigantic wave of circumstances that keep happening, pushing Fascism. It's never really disappeared and people like Stefanik fit right in as a piece of the plan being put together. Truly frightening. There have been amazing people who have been almost lost in the attention they deserve for trying so hard to protect what this country set out to be. Maddow brings a lot of the names into focus. Are there enough of those kinds of people working now, when we so desperately need them? Ken, YOU are certainly one of them with your column.
"It's too bad some won't read...."
you could have stopped there. I will think about that book, but my list has been and continues to be a long list of books
And you mentioned pos_tKKK, there within is the problem... if you look at her, if you look at her supporters... they don't read.
pos_tKKK used to post her reading list.. but I guess that became too elite for her supporters and SADLY too real for people who know her evil.
She didn't read non-fiction
so she didn't read anything about history or policy
She read fluff. Books that might be on the NYT list, but books that would be considered 'beach reads'. And even in that she read maybe five books a year (probably still true, and there is no reason to believe she is educating herself)
I don't have to say this, but I will, none (NONE) were prize-winning books.
Worst of all by not reading
She was not reading anything that had to do with policy that she regularly votes on.
There are lots of books to read and it would be difficult to read as much as say Barack Obama did (you know someone who valued knowledge), but to not read... is a example of how the gQp sentences themselves to ignorance.
The price of freedom in a democratic society is that people can believe some really awful things - and have. In the past they have always been in the minority, but you start to wonder if they that is the case anymore.
I hate to sound like an old fogey, but I just wish people would be better informed. They don't have a daily, reliable news source. For $19. a month you can get the Times Union E-Edition 7 days a week that covers International, National and has a good opinions section. My fear is that 2024 will play out badly because people are disengaged and don't understand what's at stake.
Since my retirement I now subscribe to multiple daily newspapers as part of my daily news diet. It is essential to do that to be an informed citizen. Consider that you probably pay over $200 for cable TV and maybe antlers $200 for your phone and Wi-Fi. Honestly, newspapers subscriptions are cheap.
Albany Times Union, Glens Falls Post-Star and New York Times.
Your post is so on point. I don’t worry for myself but I am terrified about the future for my children and grandchildren. 2023 was a horrible year for my family but I am afraid 2024 may be worse.
The sudden passing of my sister-in-law was a shock we still have not gotten over.
My son is not married, but I tell him all the town he should think very seriously about whether he should bring a child into this world. I fear for his future more than my own.
Actually, I’m a pretty optimistic person, so I suppose that makes my current outlook even more significant.
I watched friends come home from Viet Nam in body bags, students gunned down at Kent State University, American Icons President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinated. Every generation faces challenges and people will always disagree but it's the battle which makes us stronger, and quitting should never be an option.
Another great albeit depressing column, Ken. I would disagree, however, with the observation that few of us have had to fight for our rights. We may feel safe and snug (smug?) here in the reasonable state of New York, but women and girls (!) across the country are fighting for access to basic health care. If the wrong person ends up in the White House, women and girls in NY will be at personal risk.
As a male white guy, you are right. I have probably have not had to worry about my rights nearly as much as others.
When more than one state (and its courts!) say doctors cannot perform a needed abortion to save a woman’s life, we are indeed in grave danger!
Hello Bridget I believe you are conflating basic health care with abortion
A woman who has a miscarriage needs a D&C. This is classified as an abortion. In many states a woman whose pregnancy threatens her life is denied a lifesaving procedure. I stand by my statement.
Bridget, you write “A woman who has a miscarriage needs a D&C” which is a false premise. She may need a D&C https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/complications/miscarriage/should-i-have-a-d-and-c-dilation_and_curettage_procedure/#:~:text=D%26Cs%20are%20one%20of%20the%20most%20common%20procedures,You%20have%20a%20personal%20preference%20for%20the%20procedure
Women whom neither need nor want an abortion need basic health care, basic health care is a vast field abortion is a very specific field.
Every woman I have known to miscarry after more than a few weeks in pregnancy had required a D and C to clear her uterus. Men cannot miscarry or ever comprehend the huge physical concerns around pregnancy. After you grow a uterus, you can preach to other women your opinions about our bodily functions.
I take it you did not read the information I linked too.
Did you read it? Do you understand how complex and varied miscarriage can be? Do you understand that pregnancy and/or miscarriage can endanger a woman’s life and alter her future health? I am curious if any woman you may be acquainted with has suffered a miscarriage? And “suffer” is the proper verb here. Do you speak from personal experience?
As you should, Bridget.
Abortion IS healthcare.
Thank you, for a very reflective column today. It is very hard these days to feel inspirational about our state of the world, and our country as our political leaders try to navigate the many difficult issues, that appear almost as mine fields. I would ask you to try to point to the positive accomplishments of our local municipal and county political leaders. Sometimes, they appear as small in nature but have greater consequences. Could you weigh in on those as you have a greater grasp than most reporters in this area, now an independent journalist with considerable longevity that does not feel the necessity simply to be a cheer leader ? I ask this as I have reflected on the state of past local journalism. Personally, and in the interest of transparency, it was difficult, for example, to read the coverage of the Post Star when my late husband, Richard Dudley, was Councilman-at- Large, especially regarding the Municipal Power initiative. As an independent journalist I think you have far greater impact and are able to provide greater clarity on many local issues, particularly political in nature, and hopefully with some inspiration. Speaking of inspiration, I recently saw the movie, Boys in the Boat, an excellent movie that in many ways speaks to our time, and is truly inspirational ! Thank you for columns they are of great service to our community.
As to 2024, I am not an optimist, because I am not sure things will turn out okay. But neither am I a pessimist, because I am not sure things will turn out badly. But I am a person of hope I live in the hope that people of conscience will speak up and act, and that our democratic institutions will prevail.
I’ve always tended to be optimistic in my views, especially that people will eventually do the right thing. But this year feels different somehow.
I think you are confusing a person’s general everyday outlook about life with pragmatic decision-making. I think everyone should think long and hard before they bring a child into the world. I know I did. Far too many don’t think about it at all.
I guess birth.
Having taught high school English for 25 years, I can attest to the fact that not many students have any clue as to the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Until we start reading “ real” history in school, travesties like these are more likely to continue. Hate is learned- we are not born hateful.
The World War II Museum in New Orleans has a great special exhibit on the internment and Japanese-Americans who fought the Germans.
Hi Karhleen that’s a novel concept real history.
How do you teach a seventh grader that the person who penned “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” owned slaves?
Or Jews in Hitler’s Military https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-24-mn-12209-story.html
Real history is messy
Hmmm… Why can’t you teach a seventh grader these honest truths?
Perhaps one can although I would wager there would be push back from parents just like there was when common core standards were proposed. How does one explain the founding fathers were fighting for freedom while denying others the very thing the founders claim to be fighting for? Unless the Revolutionary War was not about freedom but something else and freedom just a rallying cry.
Hmmm… “Honest truths” is there such a thing as dishonest truths?
HI Dennis I went to an article titled “Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: One-in-Five Mail-In Voters Admit to Committing at Least One Kind of Voter Fraud During 2020 Election” I was unable to find the survey in question. The only thing I could find was a percentage of the people that responded to the question in the affirmative
Do you have a link to the survey its self?
“Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.” - Vin Scully
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Scully
We traveled over an hour to reach a GI specialist two weeks ago and during our visit she told us some of their patients travel between two and three hours from the north. To me this is a true crisis in healthcare for CD 21, but not an issue for Elise, she is busy crowing about bringing down higher education. It seems that among those “elites” that she and her cohorts are determined to destroy are specialists in the health field.
If only it were true. Specialists in any field are long drives away.
Those of us who life in Glens Falls are a little spoiled. The health facilities here continue to grow and expand while the rest of the North Country is not nearly as lucky.
I agree...with the fear, with the possibility. When Ken Burns was asked why he did the PBS on the US and the Holocaust he said something like: those people in the film throwing stones, killing people, denying and supporting the Nazis were like us....and we can be like them..... ..And many of us are--willfully ignorant, choosing not to see,-- or consciously complicit to gain power (like Stefanik and most Republicans in leadership positions who do not speak out). Hard to believe that people would/could sell their "soul"--but they have, now and throughout history. If Trump should win, resistance will be iimpossible, (think of the students in the white rose movement in Germany who wrote leaflets imploring people to wake up--and were executed). so it is important to speak out and hope that we will all awaken to what nourishes freedom and democracy.
The Harvard president was ultimately fired because of plagiarism and educational misconduct
These sadistic Tucker trolls, and others who thrive on pitting people against each other… about topics they will never have to cope with… make me sick. My visceral response which will no doubt give them a cheap thrill.
FACT: Even men who are raped will never have to worry about becoming pregnant by their rapist…or be unable to rid their uterus of retained products of conception which can, and often do lead to sepsis/death if timely accessible health care is unavailable.
FACT: As a nurse for almost 40 years, I witnessed some horrific outcomes of patients’ planned and unplanned pregnancies and miscarriages. Their sperm donors never suffered a moment of hemorrhage, physical pain, or penile scarring from those lost pregnancies.
As a recovering Catholic woman, I adopted the following quote from the 1980’s whenever men would claim to know best about women’s’ health choices. It fits the current sicko macho male and far -too - many GOP females’ determination to control/condemn women’s rights to determine what does/doesn’t happen with their reproductive organs…
“IF MEN COULD BECOME PREGNANT…ABORTION WOULD BECOME A SACRAMENT.”
Sussan within the link I supplied to Bridget under Risks and Complications of D&C what in your medical opinion would you disagree with? Do you agree or disagree with the Key Takeaway at the bottom of the page?
The following link is the same link https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/complications/miscarriage/should-i-have-a-d-and-c-dilation_and_curettage_procedure/#toc-risks-and-complications-of-dc
In your rush to list facts, you failed to list emotional pain, a scar that sometimes never heals.
The Right Is Dancing on Claudine Gay's Grave.
But It Was the Center-Left That Did Her In.
Her fate was decided by folks on the center-left and the left. The only things conservatives had to do was fan the flames.
Claudine Gay on stage in Harvard Yard, where