Journalist, grant writer, award-winning photographer, community activist, volunteer, family girl, proud momma, ally and staunch independent.
@waynestate
alum.
I'd love to see something new in the Holland area. Gatehouse Media has ruined its newspapers, expecting handful of people to manage and write for several "local" papers...
The last time I talked to a Sentinel reporter it was on Zoom, he was in Lansing.
Gag
@freemonotheist
This same argument has been parroted for decades and it's just as false and asinine as it's always been. If it's INSIDE MY UTERUS INSIDE MY BODY it is up to ME what to do with it.
@StudentsforLife
If the choice to abort was made at 20 weeks?
I'm sure the pregnant woman had a reason for making the decision. So, what is NOT being said?
Is she not standing with him because she won't stand next to someone who disrespected her decision and won't get the counseling he needs.
@Duckypam
@MonicaLewinsky
So you think it's OK that a woman in one state could be forced to endure a dangerous pregnancy and birth and then be possibly forced into abject poverty her whole life and the life of the child while a woman in another state can make her own personal choice and not suffer that?
I am a woman.
Unaffected by the existence of trans women.
Trans women do not negate my existence or my freedom.
They don’t hurt my feelings.
They have every right to live a free and happy existence just like the rest of us.
@happydiplodocus
@BlakeBlakebabee
Really? It never bothered you men chose that phrase as they established the section of their store in which those products would be placed?
Men once believed women to be unclean or unhygienic because they were bleeding.
I am NOT unhygienic because my body is functioning normally.
@GeorgeBatt55608
@WildBulldozer
You need to believe in God in order to understand that inflicting such pain, suffering and death upon another living being is wrong?
@Duckypam
@MonicaLewinsky
If we live in a free country, all the citizens of said country should enjoy the same freedoms - of which bodily autonomy should automatically be one if we claim to be a free people.
@DoomScroling
LOL!
Corte says, "they're not entitled to my time or friendship."
Oh no - oh dear - whatever will we do without. . . wait, what's his name again?!? . . .
Oh yeah, uh, Corte?
Oh no! Oh dear.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@SadieJay1980
At 40 I was fired and literally replaced by someone born the year I graduated high school. Devastating blow to a single mom of a 6-year-old. I'm now earning nearly double what I was there, I'm so much happier and corporate America can kiss my ass, I will never work for it again.
@AngelaBelcamino
Why do people think one open-hand slap across a face that didn't cause release a drop of blood, cause even the tiniest scratch or bruise is an act of violence? This baffles me today.
Smith absolutely should not have resorted to putting his hands on someone.
But prosecution? No.
@BerryRazi
@StudentsforLife
There are lots of reasons.
99.99% are because the tests done at 20/21 weeks reveal a medical issue or something happens that puts the mothers life in danger. It’s these abortions in particular when other people need to sit down, shut up, mind their business & respect the decision
@nicholelizaq
Why do you hate that people are free to choose from all the options what is best for them?
We are individuals.
We are free individuals capable of choice.
You ignore that - yet pregnancy is personal - every time.
@JoJoFromJerz
@RonFilipkowski
The IG post is whole different story. They got caught in the rain, she was basically trying to cheerlead him home. In the end, yeah, it's character building.
I'm no fan of hers, but don't make this into something it's not.
@AbortionChat
Always cracks me up these images are of near full term pregnancies and in no way an accurate indication of what is actually inside a uterus when the vast majority of abortions occur at 13 weeks gestation or prior.
🤦🏻♀️
@cblakeam
@Sites4Congress
@Jim_Jordan
The problem with your statement is that we have decades of proof that is NOT what is happening. The rich keep getting richer instead.
@ThaWoodChipper
@WinniesSoul
@NebraskaMegan
I almost died delivering my son. If an accidental pregnancy happens I have every to abort asap to save my own life from another very dangerous delivery. The reason someone needs an abortion is not your or our government's business. Stay the hell out of it. Mind your business!
@thehill
Who plans a trip to a war torn country?
No, who plans a trip to a desert country in the summer?
No... who the hell takes students to ... oh never mind.
Seriously though, why the hell were they there? The story doesn't say and that seems a very important piece of this story.
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@AbortionChat
Really?!? My body was supposed to regulate shit?
I suppose that is why I had extreme and uncontrollable weight loss and weight gain postpartum?
That's why hair falls out?
That's why women who, as you mentioned, once had good teeth, no longer have good teeth, or lose teeth?
@KenAbides
@Duckypam
@MonicaLewinsky
No, we absolutely do not.
Do honestly think it's easy and affordable to move - especially across state lines?
No, it's not. Not for folks living in poverty. You're stuck.
@amor0730
@RonFilipkowski
LOL - why are the Trump flags larger than the American flags?
They shouldn't be.
And the American flag should always be higher than any other flag on US soil.
This is Trump worship, not about patriotism.
@nytimes
May he finally find peace.
And I hope those who loved him most find peace as well.
Back in the day, I turned up the volume and thoroughly jammed to a few of his hits myself - you could have fun in the ride when DMX came on.
@AMJalsevac
@abplunkett
What you're both saying is you're completely incapable of accepting that other people have different life experiences than you do that leads to different feelings on certain matters.
It would help if you acknowledged that pregnancy is always personal - always.
Learn empathy.
@DAJustAsking
The charges in this poor child's death need to start with the other students, extend to their parents, then the school's administration, the state's school board AND THE GOVERNOR!
Hold them all accountable for their hate!
This is so unbelievably disgusting.
Their poor parents!
@PeteButtigieg
Today.... today of all days!... is the first day I've seen even a nugget of color on the morning drive. I needed it. Hope is on that horizon. So are spring and summer and all the activities I live to enjoy!
I was going to submit without comment,but really, how does one give a fuck about the death of a man who's willing to ruin lives to get what he wants?
Kenneth Starr, former independent counsel who led investigation of then-President Bill Clinton, died, 76.
@michpoligal
The same Michigan Republican-lead Legislature that refused to allow absentee ballots to be counted early? To think, this could be over already, but no, they're going to continue to drag it out.
@unrak01
@StudentsforLife
Not "pretty good."
The earliest survival was a preemie born at 21 weeks, most don't make it that young.
They need to reach 25 weeks to even have a 50/50 chance.
A fetal scan is done at 20-21 weeks. It is then that anomalies are found, which is what leads to most abortions then.
@shauna1187
@katieporteroc
Why does everyone have their panties in a knot about Feinstein not making an announcement yet?
The seat is open for election in 24. No need to wait for the incumbent to announce whether she's retiring or running again. Anyone who meets the requirements can run for election.
@AMJalsevac
You don't understand what freedom is or the fact that all people live and believe differently?
Also, it is because I survived pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum that I am fiercely pro-choice. They are body-ruining, life-changing, hormone-fucking experiences - AT BEST!
@JackPosobiec
Who's they?
The founders, who wrote the constitution and amendments, the first of which says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . ."
Crosses don't belong in public schools.
But children who are LGBTQ deserve to know they'll be accepted & safe.
@nicholelizaq
You mean abortion?
I didn’t think I needed to say abortion in a discussion about abortion.
Abortion is not a tragedy
Abortion is a choice.
Abortion is possible because our bodies allow for it, that makes abortion a choice.
Every pregnancy is personal, often abortion is necessary.
@ChrisMags80
@AbortionChat
Adoption is how one avoids parenting.
Abortion is how one avoids the life-changing, body-ruining, hormone-fucking experiences that are pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum. They can be debilitating and deadly.
We don't force people to endure that.
@RandPaul
Discussions on abortion should always come with context. I've never seen a Republican pro-lifer/anti-abortion activist say "The vast majority of abortions, 76%, happen at 6 weeks gestation with a simple pill." Instead you all pretend like fully developed babies are being murdered
@freep
She has no ties to Michigan or the college — the choice makes no sense except to purposely cause discord amongst students and their families.
I can see why graduates are upset.
@AMJalsevac
@abplunkett
Woman, there are 8 billion people on this planet. 330 million in the US. More than half women. You have had conversations with such a small number of them that we can’t even write it as a percentage because we don’t have enough space for the zeros it would take.
@Ghosty02772504
@ksax48
@ask_aubry
Right?
Ann’s role as their stepmother was never supported — clearly— by anyone, and she snapped!!
After a decade of it.
I wonder how many times she heard that crap from that woman.
We’ve all lost people we love.
But treating Ann that way. . . That shit is not OK!
@premuse
@DanPriceSeattle
@ofnrstudios
Funny how "personal responsibility" is part of the conversation when student loan debt is brought up, but not the rising cost of a college education, not stagnant wages, not the higher cost of living, not the greed of CEOs. NOPE! Only the personal responsibility of the student.
@Jesse_mrfixit
@StudentsforLife
Abortion is not murder.
Calling it murder is a lie.
Conception isn’t a promise of birth. There is no such thing as right to life, it’s a made up slogan.
Consent to sex isn’t consent to pregnancy.
Learn what freedom & bodily autonomy are.
Birth control fails
Pregnancy is personal
@pnew0903
@Emerald37227481
@Omenfinancial
@McC_711
@POTUS
Pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum are life-changing, body-ruining, hormone-fucking experiences and that is BEST CASE scenario.
I bled for weeks, didn’t know why, was waiting for Dr. appt. To find out what was going on.
Turns out I was about 12 weeks pregnant. . .
@suannelqr
Because when you make spaghetti, you are making it for an army, you will feed the masses from one pot, using the largest pot available to man (or woman).
You cannot make spaghetti in a small pot for just you and a guest. This unheard of and infeasible - spaghetti is unbreakable.
@HelloSerah
You are NOT wrong! Parents need to teach and model proper manners and respect to their children. When it comes to dogs, children need to be taught to NOT run to them and always ask permission to pet them - it is really not difficult.
Wrong is excusing those parents.
@ask_aubry
This is SO obviously not just about that particular situation. Ann’s role as their stepmother was never supported by anyone and she snapped.
@SenTedCruz
@CBP
I truly do not recall you ever calling COVID a crisis. I don't recall you calling the power outages in Texas a crisis.
But humans migrating is a crisis?
Ok.
@nicholelizaq
LOL! I clearly had no trouble using the word abortion.
Why didn't you answer the question I asked you?
See how that works - it's totes adorbs you're actually expecting me to give you something, but you can't answer a question when asked.
Why are you anti-freedom?
@abplunkett
Your conversations with other people are 100% irrelevant in everyone else’s life.
Their regret has nothing to with anyone else and their right to make the choice that is best for their body, their life and their family.
This is how individual freedom works.
You are anti-freedom.
@ND123321DN
@DanPriceSeattle
What does "unskilled labor" even mean?
When I was 18, in college, working fast food, I had to learn the the skills required to do that job.
Unskilled labor is term used to demean the hard working people in low-paying jobs. All jobs require skill. Stop kidding yourself.
@Writer_DG
The way I am laughing and crying my way through Bees . . . pass me the hankie!
I'm naughty, I read the last chapter after I hit some crazy foreshadowing just before the half way mark and I saw that cliffhanger... Darn you, Diana!
@unrak01
@StudentsforLife
Right, as I said, at 25 weeks there is a 50/50 chance. I wouldn’t call it pretty good until then.
The rest of what you said is your opinion. It is unwelcome & irrelevant to literally anyone else.
Pregnancy is personal every time. This woman made her choice - it was hers to make.
@RonFilipkowski
The post on IG says she thought they had time, but ended up getting rained on instead. She was cheerleading an unhappy kiddo the rest of the way home.
Let's not be callous and turn this into something it's not. That will always help them and hurt our cause. Every. Time.
@w_snelgrove
@ask_aubry
Ann’s role as their stepmother was clearly never supported by anyone and she snapped at that moment.
It wasn’t just about that particular moment.
@marklevinshow
You can't be serious?
The man is guilty.
Anyone with eyes could see it.
Anyone with ears could hear it.
Anyone blinded by their worshipping of the cult leader won't.
@AbortionChat
My son was taught from a very, very young age to FIRST ask permission to pet a dog. To teach him this, I always asked to pet a dog - so easy.
@65Murray
@HeyTammyBruce
For decades, humans have known that elephants are incredibly social & smart animals. Perhaps knowing that prompted the idea this an acknowledgment of thanks. It happens with wildlife in general. Videos abound of wildlife stopping to take a look at the human who helped them.
@TAG22713227
@alexkramers
@RexChapman
I was very disappointed to discover I am not, in fact, magnetic. I have yet to glow either... I wonder if I was given a fake! Or maybe I got the shot with the microchip in it. Who knows.
@ScottFishman
@joncoopertweets
Meh, conservatives are willing to call LGBTQ folks groomers all the time - that's an absolutely horrible accusation to make, as groomers do exist and the vast majority are heterosexual males preying on female youth. So it's hard to care about feelings these days.
@seanfeucht
@michaelwsmith
This is completely unacceptable.
As a Christian woman I am tired of being lumped in with the beliefs of thousands of people who act childish & ignorant.
I've been struggling to work remotely for the past week because a kid with a cold can't go to school, but this is happening.
From the US, to Brazil, to Australia and now Canada, our scorched earth is burning.
19.3 MILLION acres in Canada already.
This is not OK and abject consumerism, the constant buying of useless, needless, material things, fuels this.
19.3 acres have burned in Canada already…
OUR PLANET IS ON FIRE AND NOTHING IS BEING DONE TO STOP IT OR SAVE US
BILLIONAIRES ARE BUSY EXPLORING SOME SHIP WRECKAGE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN THAT HAPPENED A CENTURY AGO OR PLAYING IN SPACE
POLITICIANS ARE JUST AS USELESS
@redusa21
So saving my own life, being that I nearly died in my first childbirth, is not a good reason?
Wow.
Nice to know only the birth matters to you, Ruth, and not the mother.
@sailor197979
@Chasten
Yes, because no one has to break it to their parents they're straight.
It's a great question, because naysayers don't think "children" are having "those feelings" or know what they're talking about at 12 . . . yet straight folks knowing they're straight at 8 or 10 is normal.
@WalshFreedom
The phrase "Cancel culture" is a great big waving flag of divisive propaganda! Our literal, actual history has been canceled by white people for literal centuries & decades. Getting brave enough to accept the faults of past & respond accordingly is not cancel culture.
@LizRoseMorriss
@avra_cadaver
As the mom of a "neighborhood cat," I appreciate that you appreciate the neighborhood cat. Here Grey is helping me work remotely. Typically he's outside terrorizing innocent wild creatures, but December in Michigan is cold. My neighbors love him, know where his home is though.
@DebraLi60915721
@Omar_pets0
I have a pit-mix, 45lbs, when I leave for work she is in her usual pouting spot in my bed, where she curls into the tiniest ball a 45lb dog can possibly get into, uses her fluffy tail as a pillow & looks at me with sad big brown puppy eyes. Without fail I cuddle more, every day!
@DontBotherIt65
@DeansJules
@prolifelouise
Good grief.
Stop being irrationally emotional about unwanted embryos.
If you really care about children, there are thousands of nonprofit organizations you could volunteer for or financially support.
You could even advocate for affordable housing and healthcare and living wages.
@Lunasadcrash1
@Thiohna
@Lover8Tele11578
So you expect women to go through the life-changing, body-ruining, hormone-fucking experiences that are pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum because 2 million people are "looking for adoption."
That's pretty fucked up as every one of those can be debilitating or even deadly.
@auroracorn12
@Writer_DG
Every page can be life altering the way she writes! You'll be nonchalantly reading about dinner or something benign and next thing you know someone is dead or dying and you just flew through 40 pages of serious excitement.
@RigidCatholic
@AbortionChat
Mandatory vasectomies without exception until two people choose together to become parents, then a reversal may be granted - if a judge and court agree, of course.
@jessica_akes
@Emerald37227481
Jessica, please know that I say this with as much respect as humanly possible right now, but I know them kids in that profile picture with the diaper on the floor in the background were NOT all conceived in the same year — I know this — you know this — we all know this. 🤷🏼♀️
@_emilyrarick
Sweetheart - people are individuals. We're not all going to say the same thing when discussing a topic - that is not hoe life works, even with people who agree abortion should be a choice.
That's the thing anti-choice people ignore: We are INDIVIDUALS with our own circumstances.
@abplunkett
@AMJalsevac
My mother is pro-choice.
Mom was in the room when her only daughter nearly died delivering her grandson. Said grandson is injured for life because we ended up in a birthing situation no one could have foreseen.
My mom doesn't want more grandchildren - she wants ME around!
@LauraRbnsn
@Eric_Conn
I am so glad I stopped to read this thread!
Thank you! Very well done.
Learning about old/ancient cultures is so interesting - and clearly more should do it.
@TudorDixon
You couldn't pay me to vote for you and I'm a broke single mom.
Your talking points are the typical conservative drivel.
You're no different from any other conservative that would take away citizens' rights to make their own life decisions.
No thanks. Not in my
#freecountry
.
@justinamash
I mean, had we had leadership up to this point maybe, but now... We're screwed. I certainly don't expect a miracle when he was handed a mess.
@OliveOwl6
@bwillems1000
@hemantmehta
True story. My asthmatic son cannot carry his inhaler on him. He is supposed to walk to the school nurse - while lacking oxygen and growing every second making it worse.
Seems pretty far fetched to believe they'd cut off a penis when they make him walk a mile for albuterol.
@GeorgeBatt55608
@WildBulldozer
Oooh, so you’re implying you would kill them first, then set fire to them for the sake of cannibalism?
This thread just keeps getting weirder. . .