Rebekah Kuschmider

In the midst of a week that’s been rife with sadness and confusion, I am pleased to present to you a story that is unequivocally happy. A fairy tale ending, if you will.

Yesterday, the Republican National Convention kicked off in Cleveland, Ohio. One of my friends predicted it would be a spectacle of epic proportions, involving pyrotechnics, all-female military drills teams reminiscent of Ghadaffi’s personal guard, and jungle cats.

Before EMS could get to the scene, about a dozen people lifted the bus up and got all the passengers out to administer aid.

There’s another entrepreneur out there who wants to teach us to masturbate better, too. And they’re ready to send smart-tech into our vaginas to make it happen.

The revolution will be tweeted. By scientists.

It’s that last phrase — “at a location appropriate to the patient” — that is the biggest deal. What that means is the doctor and patient can, together, decide where the patient can take the second dose and complete the abortion process. For many (if not most) patients, the most appropriate location is at home.

Probably the person having the worst week in the U.S. is the guy who tried to grab a handful of Taylor Swift.

There is a working group of 14 Republican men and one Republican woman (the woman was added after the outcry about the original all-male revue-style workgroup got loud enough) who are creating the Senate version of the bill in secret. Behind closed doors. No hearings to discuss major points of the law. No input from stakeholder groups like hospitals, patient advocacy groups, doctors, or insurance companies. No input from Senate Democrats.

Yesterday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan motioned for a moment of silence for the Orlando shooting victims. But some of his colleagues weren’t having it.

The majority of people in extreme poverty (living on less than a $1.90 a day) throughout the world are women and girls. Despite this, the United Nations found that less than 2 cents of every aid dollar is spent on an adolescent girls.