SCOTUS set to overturn Roe and Casey

[Sean Gorham]

Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google

Some sites selling abortion pills use technology that shares information with third parties like Google. Law enforcement can potentially use this data to prosecute people who end their pregnancies with medication.

www.propublica.org

 

[Soen Eber]

Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google

Some sites selling abortion pills use technology that shares information with third parties like Google. Law enforcement can potentially use this data to prosecute people who end their pregnancies with medication.

www.propublica.org

And again, a safer, more private alternative: post 741, top of page 40 with default settings:

https://www.virtualverse.one/forums/threads/scotus-set-to-overturn-roe-and-casey.11275/page-40

I have included a link to the Pro Publica article in that post as well.
Remember, don't tell anyone (even us) if you go this route, for obvious privacy reasons.

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

This really was a staggering ruling. I really wish there was a consequence for the abuse of the legal system forced birthers have done over the years. The insane rationale for this ruling reminds me of how red states often have all kinds of crazy laws for how abortion clinics have to have vary particular hallway sizes etc. The official justification is "safety" but nobody really thinks that's the motivator.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The official justification is "safety" but nobody really thinks that's the motivator.

Exhibit A:

The comparative safety of legal induced abortion and childbirth in the United States - PubMed

II.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Objective: To assess the safety of abortion compared with childbirth.

Methods: We estimated mortality rates associated with live births and legal induced abortions in the United States in 1998-2005. We used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System, birth certificates, and Guttmacher Institute surveys. In addition, we searched for population-based data comparing the morbidity of abortion and childbirth.

Results: The pregnancy-associated mortality rate among women who delivered live neonates was 8.8 deaths per 100,000 live births. The mortality rate related to induced abortion was 0.6 deaths per 100,000 abortions. In the one recent comparative study of pregnancy morbidity in the United States, pregnancy-related complications were more common with childbirth than with abortion.

Conclusion: Legal induced abortion is markedly safer than childbirth. The risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion. Similarly, the overall morbidity associated with childbirth exceeds that with abortion.

Exhibit B

The U.S. Maternal Health Divide: The Limited Maternal Health Services and Worse Outcomes of States Proposing New Abortion Restrictions

States banning/restricting abortion have fewer maternity care providers, more maternity care “deserts,” and higher rates of maternal mortality and infant death.

www.commonwealthfund.org

).

We found that maternal death rates were 62 percent higher in 2020 in abortion-restriction states than in abortion-access states (28.8 vs. 17.8 per 100,000 births). Notably, across the three years presented in Exhibit 4, the maternal mortality rate was increasing nearly twice as fast in states with abortion restrictions.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

They helped their friend get an abortion. Now a bitter ex-husband is suing them | Moira Donegan

Marcus Silva’s lawsuit is a metaphor for the creepy, stupid and cruel nature of the anti-choice movement

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Birth Control Is Next

If you look closely, attempts to limit contraception are already in the works.

slate.com

 

[Veritable Quandry]

An important point to consider for bills that allow purchase of birth control without a prescription is that over the counter drugs usually do not get covered by insurance plans. Taking a drug with minimal out of pocket cost and removing it from insurance plans can make it unaffordable for many women.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

An important point to consider for bills that allow purchase of birth control without a prescription is that over the counter drugs usually do not get covered by insurance plans. Taking a drug with minimal out of pocket cost and removing it from insurance plans can make it unaffordable for many women.

Okay, it's been a long time since I took the pill but back when I did it was like $20 without insurance - this was pre-Obama care and my insurace didn't cover it. Anyone who is so financially strapped that they can't afford $20 a month for birth control isn't likely to have a job that provides insurance anyway.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Medicare, medicaid, or an ACA plan.

eta: Current retail pricing is up to $50/month.

 

[WolfEyes]

Medicaid won't pay for over the counter.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Medicare, medicaid, or an ACA plan.

eta: Current retail pricing is up to $50/month.

I work in Medicaid. Federal rules will pay for "family planning" services everywhere, but of course some states are far more generous than others about what that entails. As a general rule, blue states make this a lot easier than red states. Many red states either won't pay for anything good, or they make you jump through absurd hoops.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/24/pilot-healthcare-flights-fired-seminary-job

 

[Innula Zenovka]

In the Post-Roe Era, Letting Pregnant Patients Get Sicker—by Design

Fearing legal repercussions, doctors in Texas say they are risking grave patient harm to comply with new abortion restrictions.

www.newyorker.com

Evernote link

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Why is a Pro-Life Leader Helping an Abuser Terrorize His Ex?

Just kidding we know.

jill.substack.com

 

[Free]

What abortion bans, trans panic and book bans say about GOP women

GOP women freak out over losing reproductive rights, but embrace cruelty when it's someone else's rights at stake

www.salon.com

Late last month, a bill that would have banned nearly all abortion (and likely would have been used to restrict hormonal birth control as well) was defeated in the South Carolina state senate, despite it being one of the most conservative legislatures in the country. The defeat drew national headines in no small part because of how it went down: The only five women in the Senate, three of whom are Republicans, filibustered the bill into oblivion. At times, the Republican women sounded downright, well, feminist.

"Once a woman became pregnant for any reason, she would now become the property of the state of South Carolina," state senator Katrina Shealy declared angrily during debate.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Abortion Bans are Gifts for Abusive Men

Men who want to control women lending a hand to men who want to control women.

jill.substack.com

 

[Veritable Quandry]

A long but interesting read on current politics in Ohio. The short version is that with momentum gathering behind a state constitutional amendment on reproductive rights on the November ballot, the Republican supermajority in the state legislature is trying to pass an amendment in August making it harder to pass initiatives in the state.

Ohio Republicans choose to fight abortion amendment the hard way - Ohio Capital Journal

A proposed abortion rights amendment is being planned to go to voters in November. But rather than fight that on the merits, Ohio Republicans are doing it the hard way, alienating some allies by trying to move the constitutional goal posts.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

There is a lawsuit pending to try to block the August election because the Legislature just passed a bill to end August elections citing the cost and low turnout. Because of time constraints the proposed amendment was voted on as a joint resolution, not a bill. So it is clearly in conflict with the recently passed bill.