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profeminist · 2 days
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"The Biden administration on Monday announced new rules designed to safeguard the privacy of abortion providers and patients seeking the procedure, a move which comes in response to threats from conservative prosecutors putting abortion in their crosshairs.
"The rules announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will bar doctors, insurers and other health-care groups from making health information available to state officials investigating, prosecuting, or filing a lawsuit against a patient or provider. 
They shield both people crossing state lines to seek a legal abortion and those who are not covered under a given state’s abortion ban due to being a rape survivor, for example.
The new regulations update the healthy privacy law known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, which dates to 1996 and did not anticipate today’s uncertain reproductive rights landscape. 
Prior to the new rules taking effect — which won’t happen for at least two months — it will remain legal for organizations to share private health information with law enforcement investigating crimes." 
Read the full piece here: https://therecord.media/hhs-privacy-protections-reproductive-healthcare
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republikkkanorcs · 8 hours
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macmanx · 11 months
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reasonsforhope · 2 months
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"France became the first country in the world to make abortion a constitutional right Monday [March 4, 2024], with French lawmakers adopting the bill in a 780-72 vote in a move inspired by the U.S. reversal of Roe vs. Wade.
The law gives women a "guaranteed freedom" to choose for themselves if an abortion is the right choice to make.
The amendment won the support of the three-fifths of the 925 National Assembly and Senate members required to pass in an extraordinary afternoon session at the Palace of Versailles just outside Paris in a move that was overwhelmingly supported by the public.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said to those assembled in Congress Hall that "we owe a moral debt" to the women who had to suffer through illegal abortions in the past.
After the vote to approve the constitutional change, Paris' Eiffel Tower was lit with the words in French "my body my choice" in the country where abortion was first legalized in 1975, two years after the United States' first ruling on Roe vs. Wade...
While limiting abortion ranked very low on France's political agenda, lawmakers were prompted to take action to protect abortion rights in 2022 following the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of the 1973 Roe ruling that legalized abortion. Subsequently, several American states have passed laws to restrict or outlaw the procedure.
"I say to all women within our borders and beyond, that today, the era of a world of hope begins," said Attal, who at 34 became the country's youngest prime minister.
This was the first time since 2008 that France took steps to change its constitution. There will be a ceremony to finalize the amendment on Friday [March 8, 2024], which is also International Women's Day."
-via UPI (United Press International), March 4, 2024
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Note: It may be the first, but I am confident that it will not be the last!
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trianglart · 2 years
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[”Abortion will soon be banned in 13 states. Here’s which could be next.”
Trigger ban to take effect within a month: Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky
Likely to ban: Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina
Uncertain: Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida
Likely to remain legal: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine]
[”Thirteen states have trigger laws that will ban abortion now that Roe is overturned. BUT only three of them go into effect immediately: Kentucky, Louisiana, and South Dakota. If you have an appointment in those states, CALL YOUR CLINIC NOW. They can help you go somewhere else.
Idaho, Tennessee, and Texas have trigger laws that go into effect after 30 days. If you have an abortion appointment in those states, DO NOT ASSUMED IT'S CANCELED. Call your clinic now. You may have 30 days left in your state. Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming also have trigger laws but they require a government process step to go into effect. If you have an appointment in those states, DO NOT ASSUME IT'S CANCELED. There may be time. Call your clinic NOW."]
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It is still legal to travel to states where abortion is legal. The FDA allows abortion pills to be available by mail, and they are approved for the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. Telemedicine abortions will banned in states where abortion is illegal, but international groups like Aid Access will offer online consultations and mail pills to all states.
Your internet activity can be used against you in court. Delete any period tracking apps and do not disclose your pregnancy online. Learn about internet privacy to keep your abortion private and secure.
National resources for info and access to abortion:
Aid Access: https://aidaccess.org/en/ 
Find an abortion provider: https://www.abortionfinder.org/
National Abortion Federation: https://prochoice.org/#
NAF Hotline (Monday - Friday 8 am - 7 pm EST, Saturday & Sunday 8 am - 4 pm EST): 1-800-772-9100
Now is the time to donate to your local abortion fund. If you live in a state where abortion is likely to stay legal, clinics expect an influx of people from other states looking for healthcare. 
National Network of Abortion Funds: http://abortionfunds.org
List of abortion funds in states likely or certain to prohibit abortion: 
https://www.thecut.com/article/donate-abortion-fund-roe-v-wade-how-to-help.html
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liberaljane · 11 days
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Your address shouldn't determine your access!
I collabed with reporter Shefali Luthra to create a piece about the barriers to abortion for her upcoming book, UNDUE BURDEN.
Luthra’s book lays bare the life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive healthcare.
an illustration of four figures, looking ahead in a dark / starry sky. One holds a suitcase reading “your address shouldn’t determine your access.” In the righthand side 3 boxes picture the following barriers to seeking reproductive healthcare: an empty gas tank, a wallet with a few spare dollar bills, and a motel sign reading “nearest clinic 109 miles away.”
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butch-reidentified · 3 months
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As I discussed in my reply here, when I was impregnated through rape at 14, I had serious medical issues nobody knew about that easily could have killed me (and the "baby"). In fact, not only was it undiagnosed, but at that time virtually no doctors had even heard of what I had, let alone knew how to diagnose it. It wouldn't have been discovered until I was dead - and likely not even then!
Why have I never heard this talked about in abortion discussions? So many women and girls are walking around with serious medical problems that could make pregnancy a threat to their life or potentially permanently disabling. Some of these are probably like mine were then, where most doctors are utterly unfamiliar. All of these, and their undiagnosed state, are a direct product of medical misogyny. This alone should, imho, qualify the life of every single woman and girl as imperiled by pregnancy.
And as I also mentioned in that post, with homicide (male violence) as the leading cause of death for pregnant women, that should further serve as proof that pregnancy alone is a life-endangering condition.
Abortion for all with no conditions and state funding is the ONLY way to save lives.
*Edited as I was 14 when I had the abortion, 15 when all the other shit I disclosed in the linked post went down (the Catholic boarding school covering it up and what they did to me to make that happen)
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mikkeneko · 2 years
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I'm not going to be reblogging a lot of content about the leaked court opinion brief, for multiple reasons: this is not a very good news platform, you have almost certainly heard about it from sources other than me, and I don't see the value to contributing to an atmosphere of doom.
But one angle that I do think worth signal boosting is to point out that the specter of a post-Roe world is going to pose different dangers and challenges from a pre-Roe one. The increased availability of information and easily portable medicine, combined with the state of Web 2.0 as it is, means that the issue facing a lot of people will be less a lack of access as a lack of privacy. 
That is to say: not necessarily that you can't get a certain medical procedure, but that the instant you look at the page that information is going to be available for sale to anyone from your family, your employers, to law enforcement agencies.
For these reasons, I urge people to make note of resources now, and to save them somewhere offline so that if you or someone close to you needs them in the future, they can be passed around without alerting the panopticon. Do not leave a paper trail. A paper trail could bring trouble not only to the door of the person needing help, but to anyone else who helps them along the way.
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profeminist · 8 hours
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"Three Republicans on Wednesday joined Democrats in the Arizona House to vote to repeal the state's controversial 1864 ban on nearly all abortions, which was revived by a court ruling earlier this month and which only includes exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman.
The final vote was 32-28.
The bill now heads to the state Senate where it could be taken up next week."
Read the full piece here: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-join-arizona-democrats-vote-repeal-controversial-1864/story?id=109589269
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republikkkanorcs · 1 month
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oatsandeggs · 3 months
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