#women's reproductive health

[hotandfunnywomen]

Maya Hawke responds to the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

#maya hawke #women's reproductive health #women's rights

[contemplatingoutlander]

This is an important article by Linda Greenhouse, writing in The New York Times. Therefore, the link above is a gift 🎁 link, so anyone can read the article, even if they don't subscribe to the Times.

Below are some excerpts from the article:

To understand today’s Supreme Court, to see it whole, demands a longer timeline. To show why, I offer a thought experiment. Suppose a modern Rip Van Winkle went to sleep in September 2005 and didn’t wake up until last week. Such a person would awaken in a profoundly different constitutional world, a world transformed, term by term and case by case, at the Supreme Court’s hand. To appreciate that transformation’s full dimension, consider the robust conservative wish list that greeted the new chief justice 18 years ago: Overturn Roe v. Wade. Reinterpret the Second Amendment to make private gun ownership a constitutional right. Eliminate race-based affirmative action in university admissions. Elevate the place of religion across the legal landscape. Curb the regulatory power of federal agencies. [...} That was how the world looked on Sept. 29, 2005, when Chief Justice Roberts took the oath of office, less than a month after the death of his mentor, Chief Justice Rehnquist. And this year? By the time the sun set on June 30, the term’s final day, every goal on the conservative wish list had been achieved. All of it. To miss that remarkable fact is to miss the story of the Roberts court. It’s worth reviewing how the court accomplished each of the goals. It deployed a variety of tools and strategies. Precedents that stood in the way were either repudiated outright, as the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision did last year to Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, or were simply rendered irrelevant — abandoned, in the odd euphemism the court has taken to using. In its affirmative action decision declaring race-conscious university admissions to be unconstitutional, Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion did not overturn the 2003 Grutter decision explicitly. But Justice Thomas was certainly correct in his concurring opinion when he wrote that it was “clear that Grutter is, for all intents and purposes, overruled.” Likewise, the court has not formally overruled its Chevron decision. Its administrative-law decisions have just stopped citing that 1984 precedent as authority. The justices have simply replaced Chevron’s rule of judicial deference with its polar opposite, a new rule that goes by the name of the major questions doctrine. Under this doctrine, the court will uphold an agency’s regulatory action on a major question only if Congress’s grant of authority to the agency on the particular issue was explicit. Deference, in other words, is now the exception, no longer the rule. But how to tell a major question from an ordinary one? No surprise there: The court itself will decide. [...] My focus here on what these past 18 years have achieved has been on the court itself. But of course, the Supreme Court doesn’t stand alone. Powerful social and political movements swirl around it, carefully cultivating cases and serving them up to justices who themselves were propelled to their positions of great power by those movements. The Supreme Court now is this country’s ultimate political prize. That may not be apparent on a day-to-day or even a term-by-term basis. But from the perspective of 18 years, that conclusion is as unavoidable as it is frightening.

#us supreme court #18 years of the roberts' court #chief justice john roberts #affirmative action #second amendment #separation of church and state #regulatory agencies #women's reproductive health #linda greenhouse #the new york times #gift link

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #twitter #tweet #@elizabethlgr #ectopic pregnancy #septic uterus #miscarriages #abortions #abortion bans #reproductive health #reproductive rights are human rights #reproductive rights #women's reproductive health #women's health #women's rights #women's bodily autonomy #2022 #abortion is healthcare #abortion is a human right

[valeriesolanasapologist]

Hey, gyns,

I'm sharing this GoFundMe for a female artist I admire in the industry. She's suffering from endometriosis, and she's having a very difficult time covering her surgery (around $40,000, maybe more).

That's a lot of money, but I'm hoping if I can spread this around, enough people may donate to get close to her goal.

I cannot imagine the hell that she has gone through so far: misdiagnosis, not being believed, unable to work because of the pain, etc.

I hope we can at least get close to offering her some relief from this nightmare.

#radical feminism #radfem #women's health #women's reproductive health #endometriosis #tw endometriosis #gofundme #feminism #radblr #radfem safe #radfems please interact #radfems do interact #radfems do touch #crowdfunding

[dailysudeikis]

Jason is among the 594 male hollywood showrunners who signed a petition demanding abortion safety protocols. 

#jason sudeikis #women's reproductive health #women's rights

[comraderosex]

I love you all

#tumblrpost #tumblr memes #dankest memes #lgbtq #gay rights #trans rights #blacklivesmatter #black lives are beautiful #roe v wade #protect icwa #landback #queer lives matter #transgender #socialism #queer solidarity #black liberation #indigenous #women's reproductive health #women's rights #trans women are women #communist #communism #best memes #fresh memes #solidarity forever #care bears #frienship #love #reblog to support #reblog to boost

[luckydiorxoxo]

#kamala harris #madame vice president Kamala Harris #keke Palmer #women's reproductive health #maternal health

[atheostic]

#roe v. wave #United States #Religion #did you know #abortion #abortion rights #women's reproductive health #women's rights #human rights #christianity #pew research center

[hjellacott]

Why sometimes it is important to have FEMALE gynaecologists

When we talk about wanting female gynaecologists or obstetricians, we often talk about hypothetic things, so I thought I'd share my real, recent experience. I'm a grown up adult and yet I'd never gone to the gynaecologist before until recently. It all started last year, when my periods got odd. I won't go into details, but you know when your instinct urges you to get checked because you know in your gut that something is off? And you know it sounds insane if you say it out loud, and people don't believe you, but you know. So I contacted a GP, managed to convince him to take me seriously, and I got a referral for a gynaecologist. A year later, I was finally called for my appointment.

When I got my paper with my appointment, I was surprised to learn that the examination I was booked for was far more and more invasive / intense than I had thought it would be, so I got very anxious, because I've heard from friends who had terrible experiences at the gyn and I was worried sick. Will it hurt? Will they be too harsh? Will I bleed? Will I be really uncomfortable? Then I had worse concerns: will I have a dishonourable doctor/nurse who takes advantage of me? So I decided the best way to ease my concerns was to ensure that no males were in the room. A woman wouldn't rape me, a woman wouldn't touch me without knowledge of what it feels like, a woman would be able to be empathetic with me, put herself in my shoes, and try and help me. A woman wouldn't get turned on. A woman will also have had, at some point, her first intense examination and will understand my worries and anxiety. Men? They'll lack empathy, they'll be too brusque, they might sexually abuse me, they might hurt me simply because they don't know how delicate you need to be, or mansplain, or discard my concerns, or all of the above.

It was important for my doctor to be a woman.

Unfortunately, we live in the day and age where if you call your doctor, hospital or surgery in the NHS to try and ensure your doctor is a woman, sometimes you'll be met with the wrong person who will think you're transphobic and be really rude and disrespectful and refuse to help. It took me 2 days on the phone, calling a variety of hospitals, hospital departments and NHS numbers, until I was able to find a sweet lady who was happy to ensure my doctor was female and to my surprise, she didn't even ask me to explain why it was important to me.

In the end, my appointment went just fine. I had a young, understanding, caring, gentle and lovely female doctor who was also POC, so she actually gave me a lot of insight. I arrived saying "I'm so sorry but I've never done this before and i'm so anxious" and the whole time she was listening to me, comforting me, calming me, explaining me exactly what she was doing bit by bit, being patient, empathetic... She actually told me I'd done well coming and gotten checked and explained how important it was, even if it didn't seem like a big deal or even if I wasn't sexually active at the time. Unfortunately I was right and the doctor found evidence of a more serious health problem, so I'll be getting more tests and things, but I was so happy with the doctor I got. When she told me what I might have, which is something that runs in my family, I told her I didn't know anything about that problem, so she sat and patiently and kindly told me all she knew about it, explained it's a problem many women live with and that in ethnicities such as hers or mine, it could be even more common, but she gave me the magical line "us women have had to deal with things like this since always and we always pull through, so don't worry, there's a lot we can do" and I left not feeling worried at all, rather, empowered, calmer and confident.

So don't fucking undermine the importance of being able to choose exactly the doctor you want.

#women #men #transgender #female doctors #male doctors #doctors #nhs #medicine #gynaecology #obstetrics #ob/gyn #women's health #women's reproductive health #women's bodies #female health #female genitalia #female bodies #real experience #first time at the gynaecologist

[humanrightsconnected]

As the US awaits the fate of Roe v. Wade, more and more South American countries are legalizing or decriminalizing abortion. Read an openDemocracy article and find out more about the recent successes for abortion rights in Latin America.

👉 https://bit.ly/3M5gLpf  

Photo 1 by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

Photo 2 by Malvestida on Unsplash

#abortion #abortion rights #abortion is a woman's right #abortion is healthcare #pro choice #woman #women #women's rights #human rights #feminist #feminism #health #healthcare #reproductive health #reproductive healthcare #women's reproductive health #reproductive rights #reproductive rights are human rights #women's reproductive rights #my body my choice #my body my rights #not your body #not your choice #not your body not your choice #argentina #colombia #mexico #latin america #south america #roe v wade

[sbrown82]

What a sad day for America and for women!

#roe vs. wade #supreme court #ruling #women's health #women's reproductive health #women's rights #they just set us back 50 years #fuckers #conservatives #republicans #white women

[hotandfunnywomen]

Cara Delevingne

#cara delevingne #women's rights #women's reproductive health

[a-queer-burrito]

The overturning of Roe v. Wade through Dobbs v. Jackson isn't just a political or policy issue, it is a legal issue that effects more rights than just abortion. To explain: Roe v. Wade was applied to states through the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment and fell under the Equal Protection Clause.

As the 14th amendment states: "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

The Court historically has used this Equal Protection Clause to say that states can not implement laws that restrict rights, including the right to privacy. The 14th has been used to strike down discriminatory laws, which is where disability rights comes in. Despite this, it is mostly legislation (e.g. ADA, Fair Housing Act) that protected our rights, as opposed to the 14th.

There are still state laws that allow for disability related discrimination, including but not limited to: limiting rights for voting, marriage, family relations, and other vital areas of personal autonomy. With the opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson placing the authority of regulating abortion up to the states, it weakens the reach of the 14th's Equal Protection Clause since the Due Process Clause has come into question.

Although we have federal legislation protecting our rights, this opinion means that the courts could possibly not strike down discriminatory laws in the future. As so, it is our responsibility to fight against Dobbs v. Jackson, not just for our sake, but for everyone- women, LGBTQ+, POC, and every disabled individual in the United States.

#roe vs. wade #roe v wade #dobbs v. jackson women’s health organization #dobbs vs. jackson #14th amendment #due process #due process clause #equal protection clause #equal rights #women's reproductive health #womens rights #lgbt rights #disability rights

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #tweet #twitter #2022 #pregnancy centers #abortion clinics #abortions #abortion bans #@fr0gan #hasanabi #hasanthehun #hasan the hun #reproductive rights #reproductive rights are human rights #women's reproductive health #reproductive health #women's bodily autonomy #women's health #women's rights #abortion is better than negligence #abortion is a right #abortion is healthcare #2014

[valeriesolanasapologist]

Well, shit.

As you can tell by the thumbnail on the right, this was posted on my entry spreading the word about Jenny Calabro's edno surgery GoFundMe.

Like, dude, I'm trying to help raise funds for her!

I actually think this is a perfect example of how cult like the trans community and TRAs are. Even when this is to help someone with a serious medical procedure in the United States, which has notoriously high medical costs, they would STILL rather tell you to fuck off (and probably die) than help a fellow human being afford her medical care.

Even stranger, endometriosis is a sex-specific condition (cases in males is extremely rare, so don't try that). Or, I guess in genderspeak, "gender specific". Would they not consider this gender affirming care? Would they not support a woman getting treatment for her painful GENDER SPECIFIC condition?

Oh, no? I guess medical procedures are only important to women when it comes to conforming to superficial standards of "WoMaNhOoD".

Go ahead and tell me to fuck off again. It still doesn't change your SEX.

(If you would like to share or donate, here's Jenny's GoFundMe:)

#trans #tras #trans cult #gender cult #women's health #women's reproductive health #gofundme #medical GoFundMe #endo #tw endometriosis #endometriosis #women's health issues

[bubbles081021]

Hey guys I was just wondering if anyone knew about anyone that is an extremely good obgyn or someone who's really good with reproductive issues for women in central Oklahoma and southern Idaho? The doctors that I've been seeing keep hinting at endometriosis but don't actually want to do anything about it and exercise aggravates whatever is going on so I know that the pelvic floor therapy one wants me to try isn't going to work (not like I can afford to go to physical therapy in this economy anyway). I just need someone that will genuinely listen to me and try to understand what's going on. I would prefer if it weren't a male doctor however, for reasons I'm sure many will understand. I just need some help that isn't them trying to put me on birth control to stop my period.

As of right now I'm getting nexplanon put in on February 22 but if it doesn't work I just need something to do and someone to go to because I'm tired of dealing with the pain. It's not muscular because if it was then why does it hurt during ovulation and my period always in the same spots.

If anyone has any ideas on someone good in those areas please comment or dm me and if you've been diagnosed with endometriosis can you give me some tips that you've found to manage symptoms? Thanks. 😔

#women's rights #women's healthcare is shit #endometriosis #women's reproductive health #best obgyn near me #obgyndoctor #obgyn #womens reproductive rights #bad doctors #please help #reproductive care #birth control #birth control isn't the answer #this is a cry for help #help #women's health #looking for a good doctor