USPOL/Sharing my sterilization (permanent birth control) story again with updated/additional information!
“We really were the only source of safety monitoring in this country,” said one fired CDC staffer who worked on the guidelines, known as the U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, or MEC. “There’s no one who can actually do this work.”
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/birth-control-safety-hhs-cdc-layoffs-at-risk-women/
"After Texas made performing abortions a felony in August 2022, ProPublica found, the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54%.
The number of emergency room visits for early miscarriage also rose, by 25%, compared with the three years before the COVID-19 pandemic..."
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-blood-transfusions
"A North Texas man charged with capital murder this month after he allegedly slipped his girlfriend abortion-inducing medication and caused a miscarriage marks the first time a murder charge has been brought in an abortion-related case in Texas."
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/30/texas-abortion-pill-capital-murder-charge-fetal-personhood/
The Costs of Restricting Abortion? More Than $130 Billion Per Year.
When the US Supreme Court decided to overrule Roe v. Wade three years ago, the ruling had sweeping consequences for public health, making pregnancy much riskier, leading to the preventable deaths of pregnant women, and causing a spike in infant mortality. Now, research suggests the country has also suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in […]
The International Provider
Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical catastrophes. It […]
https://voices.murica.website/abby-vesoulis/the-international-provider/
Funder, Pilot, Survivor, Physician: Inside the Network Assisting Abortion Journeys
Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical […]
Healthcare, transphobia, reproductive justice, SCOTUS
If you're not a fan of capitalism...
If you're outraged by the separation of immigrant families...
Are you also speaking up about the adoption industry that commodifies children and transfers them primarily from women without means to wealthier families?
If you understand the problems associated with international and transracial adoption, do you extend your concern to transferring children between families for reasons of social status and class ("opportunity")?
Did you know that the vast majority of women denied abortions choose to parent their "unwanted" children rather than transferring those children to other families?
If you still think adoption is a good "solution" to the problem of "unwanted pregnancies" (aka lack of financial resources and social safety net, primarily), it's time to update your understanding.
Adoption’s warm, fuzzy reputation doesn’t hold up to reality
Police in UK can now take women's phones and check their period tracking app
Several women's health and safety organisations have spoken out against the 'shocking' new guidance, vowing to 'aggressively challenge' it
"New guidance in the UK has handed British police the power to trawl through women's phones if they suspect said individual has undergone an illegal abortion.
As per an announcement made by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) last month, officers investigating the causes of stillbirths, miscarriages and unexpected pregnancy losses will now be permitted access to check menstrual cycle tracking apps.
The alleged aim of the incoming procedure is to 'establish a woman’s knowledge and intention in relation to the pregnancy.'"
Funny how the conclusions drawn from these reports never include "Oh, the problem is capitalism."
"Roughly 40 percent of respondents cited economic barriers – such as the costs of raising children, job insecurity and expensive housing – as the main reason for having fewer children"
“Governments may need to tax working people more or take on more debt...” [professor of social statistics and demography] Wisniowski noted."
More States Consider Curbing Drug Testing at Childbirth
A growing number of states are considering legislation to set up protections for patients who might be drug tested when they give birth. Three of the bills were introduced following an investigative series by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of drug testing at childbirth — including how many patients are often […]
A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions
Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to […]
https://voices.murica.website/madison-pauly/a-doctors-impassioned-defense-of-later-abortions/
She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.
#SurveillanceTechnologies #Street-LevelSurveillance #ReproductiveJustice
Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More
To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti-abortion activists […]
https://voices.murica.website/nina-martin/forget-dobbs-the-personhood-movement-wants-much-more/
Experts say the closures indicate that #financial & operational challenges, rather than future #legal bans, may be the biggest threats to #abortion access in states whose #laws still protect it.
"These states that we have touted as being really the best kind of versions of our vision for #ReproductiveJustice, they too struggle w/problems," said Erin Grant, a co-exec dir of the #AbortionCare Network, a national membership org for independent clinics.
Christian Fascist Youngkin abuses his power with government intrusion in women's lives. Vetoed contraception, and Confederate tax exemption bills again
#FascistGlennYoungkin #ReproductiveJustice
#VirginiaForcedBirthState https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/virginia/youngkin-vetoes-contraception-confederate-tax-exemption-bills-signs-other-bipartisan-measures/
Podcast Episode: Digital Autonomy for Bodily Autonomy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/podcast-episode-digital-autonomy-bodily-autonomy