Bich Nguyen :verified:

"According to a review by The Marshall Project, hospitals in at least 27 states across the U.S. are required by law to alert child welfare authorities to a positive drug test or potential exposure -- even before a second, more definitive test can be given to the mother to ensure it wasn't a false positive. This often leads to long and stressful investigations that can turn a family's life upside-down."

cbsnews.com/falsepositives/

#healthcare #hospitals #drugs #DrugTesting #ReproductiveHealth

How faulty drug tests are turning new moms' lives upside-down

New mothers say they had to undergo devastating investigations…

www.cbsnews.com
Bich Nguyen :verified:

"...for the last three years, a group of students who call themselves the 'Womb Service,' has run a contraceptive delivery network for their classmates at locations just off campus. Last month, without warning, university officials revoked the group’s status as a student organization, taking away their ability to meet or advertise on campus."

19thnews.org/2025/07/depaul-st

#PublicHealth #contraception #PlanB #FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #HigherEd #colleges #universities

Their student-run birth control service was banned on campus. They're still delivering.

“Womb Service,” a contraceptive delivery network, lost…

The 19th
Bich Nguyen :verified:

"A county clerk in New York on Monday again refused to file a more than $100,000 civil judgment from Texas against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman.

New York is among eight states with shield laws that protect providers from other states’ reach. Abortion opponents claim the laws violate a constitutional requirement that states respect the laws and legal judgments of other states."

apnews.com/article/abortion-pi

#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ShieldLaws #texas

NY clerk again refuses to enforce Texas judgment against doctor who provided abortion pills

A New York county clerk has again refused to file a…

AP News
gentlegardener

compare #virginia with the #us total nonvoting slacker status.

#virginia election is THIS year 2025 and we have 45 days of early voting

so if you are mad and want to do something, turn virginia #governor blue with #spanberger

#Virginia is essentially a border state for #reproductivehealth care and the rule of law.

go #vote and help #virginia get mad, get even and get sane.

now

this autumn

#virginia is for #democracy

From: @gentlegardener
mastodon.scot/@gentlegardener/

gentlegardener (@gentlegardener@mastodon.scot)

#virginia is divided in 4 parts 8.8m people july24 2.4m…

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My Period Data Is Mine!

Science to the rescue!

Menstruators know that it's always good to find out as soon as possible if things go wrong. A new period pad may be one stop in the right direction. 😊

Beware of data privacy and use your eyes though:
"The researchers say these results can be read by eye, but they have also developed an app that uses a machine learning-driven image analysis"

Stay safe ❤️ 💜 💙

livescience.com/health/new-men

#MyPeriodDataIsMine
#Menstruation
#Science
#Future
#Health
#ReproductiveHealth

New menstrual pad device tracks period blood for signs of disease

Scientists are developing a new device that fits inside…

Live Science
Broadwaybabyto

Adriana smith, abortion, medical trauma

The hospital in Georgia didn’t “save a life”

They had that chance when Adriana Smith sought medical care. They could have saved her & her fetus.

What they did was carry out a medical experiment without consent.

They failed her in life & then robbed her of dignity in death

She was only 9 weeks pregnant when declared brain dead.

There’s no medical precedent for keeping someone’s body on organ and tissue support at that stage in a pregnancy.

The fetus was not viable. It couldn’t survive the death of its mother.

The state and the hospital made a choice to experiment on a black woman, and didn’t take into account her wishes or the wishes of her next of kin.

Regardless of the outcome, the lack of consent is why we’re enraged.

This was done to further a far right pet project, fetal personhood.

This wasn’t about saving a life.

They don’t care about the life of her child.

They want to establish legal precedent to declare embryos and fetuses full people under the law.

If you don’t understand what that means, it would mean an end to IVF & abortion. It would mean that even miscarriages could be investigated for murder charges.

It would give a legal right to a fetus that no other person has, the right to use another body without ongoing consent

It would effectively criminalize pregnancy, while making life unsafe for everyone who has a uterus.

It would put women second.

Misogyny means we’re already treated as incubators a lot of the time, this would legalize it.

If that doesn’t scare the crap out of you, you aren’t paying attention.

If you still think it’s about “life”, consider this.

Georgia’s infant mortality is one of the worst in the US, and in 2022 (after the fall of Roe) they saw a 13% increase in infant deaths.

Even worse, black babies have the highest rate of infant deaths across the US (10.86 per 1000 live births)

Yet they experimented on a black woman and a black baby and none of the pro life crowd are doing anything to improve their survival odds.

Because it’s not above life, it’s about control. Subjugation. Taking our reproductive freedoms and autonomy.

This was a clear cut ethical violation and a grotesque medical experiment.

I hope more than anything that Chance is ok, but the outcome doesn’t change what happened

What they did was wrong and will put many lives in jeopardy if it is allowed to set precedent

If you want to be pro life? Fight Medicaid cuts. Fight cuts to food assistance. Lobby for better access to healthcare, housing, childcare & social supports

Help lower infant mortality

Also, believe patients. Especially women.

We shouldn’t talk about Adriana’s tragic story without mentioning that it was completely preventable

Had the hospital done their job & ran tests, she would still be here.

Misogyny & misogynoir kill. Every damn day.

Call it out. Keep shouting. Don’t let anyone forget.

#uspol #adrianasmith #reproductivehealth #fascism #racism #misogyny #misogynoir #MyBodyMyChoice

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

for 60 fucking years this patriarchal anachronism has been festering...

#Abortion #Misogyny #Patriarchy #ReproductiveHealth #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS

PrivacyDigest

Congress Can Act Now to Protect #ReproductiveHealth Data

@eff supports Rep. Sara Jacobs’ newly reintroduced “My Body, My Data" Act, which will protect the #privacy and safety of people seeking reproductive health care, while maintaining important #constitutional protections and avoiding any erosion of end-to-end #encryption.

Privacy fears should never stand in the way of #healthcare.
#e2ee #MyBodyMyDataAct

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/cong

Congress Can Act Now to Protect Reproductive Health Data

State, federal, and international regulators are increasingly…

Electronic Frontier Foundation