IntegralDuChemin @IntegralDuChemin@qoto.org

@freemo @stevenroose Teenage pregnancy rates are in decline right now but I'm wondering what the Trump administration will deliver in the next years. Title X is a thing voted down by Democratic presidents and voted up by Republicans.

@freemo @stevenroose According to the stats I read it got worse in the 90s and 2000s at least in the rural south.

@freemo @stevenroose May I ask in which state you grew up and when? Texas in the 2000s is different from California today or New York in the 80s. Only thing I like about abstinence teaching is that it includes how to be strong and say no, which could be communicated more in Europe as well. Honestly I'm glad if the horror stories you read are only a small part of a big picture but no German teacher would even suggest teaching intelligent design instead or along evolution. Hope, I'm not ranting too much, I don't want to be banned from qoto as I really like this instance 😃

A lot of our problems come from greed and perverse lobbyists. We could have prevented PCB poisoning in Anniston, Alabama, we could prevent tons of cancers and fetal defects from pesticide overuse in South America, we do not need braindead shit like bovine growth hormone in the West which is banned all over Europe, we can prevent the spread of STIs by using condoms, we can teach students how to prevent teenage pregnancy and should teach them basic biology such as evolution. We have a constitution declaring a separation between church and state in nearly every Western country but yet we fail to deliver. We can prevent antibiotic resistance by stopping overuse of antibiotics in raising animals which are only employed to prevent infection stemming from concentrating animals in cages or are used to make animals get fatter in a shorter time. Only thing I don't get - if you poison people for a lot of money I can at least logically understand it. But these idiots do it for very few money. Why? We're talking a few billions here. Not trillions. Billions and even less.
#rantingscientist

@stevenroose I'm furious that there are still women dying from this shit and even more that the Trump administration restricts access to contraception in poor countries only to gain evangelical votes. The Christian Right should finally go back to the swamp where it came from. No other developed country teaches abstinence instead of using contraception to prevent STI. No other country in the developed world has a teenage pregnancy rate this high and no other country sees climbing maternal mortality rates, lacks universal basic healthcare etc.
The richest nation in the world fails at delivering decent living conditions for much of its female population and exports this lunacy successfully to other countries. That's a complete desaster and even worse - it is preventable and completely against science.

@stevenroose Against abortion restrictions

Stop feeding animals #antibiotics and give the industry incentives to do research on new antibiotics. #multiresistant #bacteria

Buy organic, eat vegetarian. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/health/drug-companies-antibiotics-resistance.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article #drug #resistance #antibiotics

@freemo #QuantumPhysics #QuantumInformation #QuantumCryptography #Chemistry #Biochemistry #abortion #demography #womenonwaves #feminism #Linux #BSD #Psychopharmacology #ReactionKinetics #ReactionDynamics #Biophysics #ITSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #Hacking

And one more on #abortion https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/three-children-two-abortions/566270/

@jcgruenhage Sorry, meinte natürlich #KA23 bzw #KA23leaks

@jcgruenhage Hat K23 eigentlich nen eigenen Mastodonaccount? #k23leaks

@freemo I argue here with danger to the woman's health. In nearly every Western state there is an exception allowing abortion up to birth if the mother's health is at risk - and this includes mental health. A woman who would go any limit even up close to birth is in serious mental distress and under this exception abortion short until viability should be free as a choice. This point may seem radical but it covers very few cases in reality.

Is there something I can do from #Berlin, #Germany to support #womens right to #choice in the US or in Eastern Europe? #womenonwaves

Where we should not go back to https://latinainstitute.org/es/return-back-alley-abortion #woc #abortion #poverty

@freemo Of course the goal should be to minimize death. I refer to situations where people use horrible back-alley solutions and die from that which could have been prevented by ensuring a decent separation between church and state.