Get rid of them.

Fuck, not being able to trust your doctor because some bootlicker in a suit has passed (or is trying to) a law defining your body's natural processes as a potential murder case?

Fuck these fascist Republican scumbags.

If these fuckers get their way, I will, at some point, start seeing murder cases where the perpetrator is a woman and default to thinking that the charges are bullshit because of this.
- Yup, and once they fully ban abortion, birth control is next, followed by taking away womens right to choose if they have kids or not. Meaning all girls will have a set amount of time to have their required number of children, following their first period.
My country has free healthcare. Doctors do not get any info unless you give them, because you keep the files.

To be fair, you could have the best doctor in the world. The second they enter those dates into the database with the rest of your notes it is out of their hands. The IT department will be responsible for handing over the data.

The IT department would never be responsible for handing over said data. Backing it up, making sure it was recoverable, sure. But IT would have no actions with such.
I assume it would be the HR department or the administrators
- Legal will tell the IT department to preserve it and hand it over.
- Same difference. It's out of the doctor's hands.

LaNd oF tHe FrEe

bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg!
"But it was the republican-appointed SCOTUS judges who rammed their agenda through, because you people let trump through the door in 2016, you allowed this to happen and seem intent on letting it happen over and over again."
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe!!! MaRy HaD a LiTtLe LaMb LiTtLe LaMb LiTtLe LaMb...!!!
- The Democrats have had decades to ensure abortion access would be guaranteed, but they decided not to and allowed it to be overturned. Both parties were absolutely happy to do nothing and just raise funds over abortion, but the Republicans had to actually try to force a change.
  If there is a pile of brushwood and gasoline containers next to my house, and my husband wants to light it on fire while my mother wants to keep it there, neither of those people is actually trying to make the situation better.
Land of the thief, home of the slave.
- https://youtu.be/OO18F4aKGzQ

I tell every doctor "a few weeks ago" and then when they suggest a date I say yes. So every doctor has a different day lol. Hopefully that doesn't come back to bite me

I thought you meant:
Doctor: “when was your last period?”
Me: “a few weeks ago.”
Doctor: “date?”
Me: yes
Doctor: great I’ll pick you up at 8
- breeding intensifies
- Your grandmother from Long Island highly approves!
I hope you don't live in an abortion ban state, because that very well could come back to bite you
- That makes me soooo fucking angry
- I do, so we will see what happens
  I'm sure my governor would love to see me in jail anyway
Hey if you're on hormonal birth control I think you can just tell them you use the method that gets rid of periods (not taking the placebo week and just continuing with the hormone pills, this is safe if you also just don't want to have periods link)
I have an iud and besides a short time after having one removed to get pregnant with my daughter haven't had my period in uh, 9 years? I just tell them I don't have a period and haven't in years and they accept that readily
- If you live in a deep red state even that info will be used against you. The GOP wants to make women brood sows and any type of birth control is considered murder/going against God's plan.
- Good point, I appreciate it!

Bald eagle freedom screech intensifies.

Fun fact: the famous bald eagle freedom screech as we know it from the movies is not from an eagle, it's the scream of a red-tailed hawk.
- These days it's actually the screech of the yellow bellied, tail tucked misogynist.
- In reality eagles just sound like large seagulls.
  Quite disappointing actually.
  Edit: Now that I see them juxtaposed I wonder if the names of the two birds are related due to the similarity in sound.
They actually sound like deranged seagulls. I think that sound is probably more on the nose for what is going on in the US.

Holy shit, that hits home. Smart daughter.

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Red states are obsessed with knowing who is potentially pregnant and increasingly making legislation to punish people who appear pregnant and suddenly aren't (ie, no periods, then abortion, then having a period). Some of that includes reporting that information, apps for tracking have already been caught sharing that info.
- Thanks
Didnt you know? Screenshots of text are they new memes
Mods should remove posts which don't stay on topic

Any woman who votes for the right at this point is voting for the handmaid’s tale. Ending no fault divorce, ending a woman’s right to choose, tracking women's periods, and the list goes on. The right is trying to roll back women’s rights little by little.

I remember when the right said things would never get as bad as the handmaid's tale. It's not a coincidence they stopped saying that.

I like this N.J. way to talk to doctors: “don’t worry about it”, “it is what it is”, “who’s asking?”

Reminds me of Johnny Tightlips:
Fat Tony: Johnny, how's your mother?
JT: Who says I have a mother?
- Johnny Tightlips, where'd they hit ya? JT: I ain't saying nothin' But, what do I tell the doctor? JT: Tell him to suck a lemon.
What's it to ya?!
- "What are you, a cop?"

This explains why people say healthcare in US is terrible

Calling it healthcare is starting to seem like more and more of a stretch every day
- Following the naming conventions of 1984.
It’s a reason, not the reason
- I heard even citizens have to pay for it even when you break bone.
No it doesn't. This is a problem with our laws, and it's not true across the us, only in some of the less intelligent of our states.
The reason people think our health care sucks is because it's for profit which inevitably leads to crappy/no care for the poor. And for that reason it does suck.
But of course, mindless bashing on the US? Upvotes, no matter how little it makes sense.
- The reason people think our health care sucks is because it's for profit which inevitably leads to crappy/no care for the poor. And for that reason it does suck.
  When people compare healthcare between countries, people compare healthcare by those countries. Not by corporations in those countries. This is why I say my shithole has worst dental care on the planet. And have bad avaliability, brcause regions are still part of country. Although the worst is better than none, I guess. Terrible both by European standards and by standards of 20 years ago. Again, USSA managed to be even worse than this.

I'm going to guess this person lives in one of those shithole theocracies.

I'm so glad I got sterilized once the RvW info got leaked. I wish I could thank whomever leaked it. In my eyes, they're a hero.

I am Canadian and offered on my Facebook page to mail abortion pills to Americans, got IMMEDIATELY banned for 30 days, and was interviewed by Vice about that. Facebook is complicit.
- I’m not one to defend Facebook, the execs can burn in hell for all I care, but they do have to comply with the laws of countries or else face being sued by some litigious Americans.
  Let me ask you this. Are you still on Facebook?
  Me myself was not happy with the influx of misinformation on there 10 years ago and I’ve not used the site since, or Instagram or WhatsApp.
  Full disclosure: we use ReactJS at work.

Okay, not entirely educated on female menstruation person here.

Does the period cycle change or is it consistent over time? Like is it about tracking a woman’s pattern and if there’s a change… that’s the flag?

It's about the cycle stopping and then starting again, suggesting that the person was pregnant until she wasn't again.
- Exactly, and it’s not just about abortion. Well it is, but abortion isn’t the only cause. Miscarriages are common, and unfortunately these days miscarriages of fetuses and of justice go hand in hand.
To add what prune said, it can be some what inconsistent. Women aren’t robots.
My ex had periods that were frequently + a week or so, and my current GF is regular enough to freak out over a couple days.
There’s also things that can cause skipped periods that have nothing to do with pregnancy- intensive physical training or stress.
- Thanks for adding that. I was aware of those cases (also: the pill can make you stop having periods at all), hence why I wrote "suggested".
  However, law enforcement can't be trusted to give you the benefit of the doubt. Especially, if it's illegal and persecution is especially politically motivated.

Use AI to identify republicans based on their data, institute shadow bans and silent monetary fines wherever they go outside of their fascist states, and use the fines to finance reproductive health options for the women in their states. Watch the depends diapers fly.

Its funny, because you basically described the Silicon Valley plan to do fascism in San Fransisco
The idea of the Network State is one in which The Grays - a cabal of tech industry insiders - wage war against The Blues - California liberal democrats - by freezing them out of domestic infrastructure.
The macro task is to take back the city. The micro task, or the meso-task, is to take back individual streets and buildings and clearly mark them as under Gray control ... For example, if you had Gray owners of every single building in San Francisco or even every single building on a block, you could set it up such that the Gray login will get you into the building. I mean, this already kind of happens. You have to swipe your key card to come in because the streets are so dangerous. Like near Twitter HQ, for example, that you'd like or run inside and you swipe your key card and you go up the elevator or whatever. Sometimes I've seen people do that. So that's already something that exists but the difference is you'd network it between buildings. And you have something of a Gray tribe membership gets you into the buildings, gets you into certain floors. That is already legal and already practical, under current law. Okay, so that's good, where you have a foothold of private property. And you have a group membership of Gray tribe membership and private property. You also issue T-shirts, and T-shirts are, let's say, the similar Gray color and it's just got different logos and patches on it.
Take total control of your neighborhood. Push out all Blues. Tell them they're as unwelcome as ... just as Blues ethnically cleanse me out of San Francisco, push out all blues. And then you'll easily win.
...
Reds should be welcomed there and people should wear their tribal colors. No Blues should be welcomed there. And in addition to celebrating celebrating Gray and celebrating Red, you should have movies shown about Blue abuses. For example, there's this guy who's addicted to drugs, who was addicted to drugs he posts on Twitter about how the Blue government helped him get addicted to drugs. You should have an interview with him. There should be lots of stories about what Blues are doing that is bad.
...
Elon, in sort of classic Gray fashion ... captures Twitter and then, at one stroke, wipes out millions of Blues' status by wiping out the Blue Checks and, another stroke, you know, where it does cause some damage, renames Twitter as X, showing that he has true control, and it's his vehicle, and that the old regime isn't going to be restored.
- Push out all the blues, reds should be welcomed. Gray sounds very enlightened centrist.

Reminder to use Drip to track menstruation as every other comparable app I have found features telemetry and shouldn't be trusted.

I'm so glad I'm old and dried up.
- Hey it’s the sovcit whisperer!
- .

Get rid of doctors?

Period tracking. It's not safe in the US anymore.
- Oooooooh this went from weird conspiracy to actual legitimate concern quite quickly.

I distrust doctors, but mostly because at least 70% of them are just prescription ChatGPT's

You know that “mom” voted for Trump in 2016

Why? While the post could maybe be read as a condemnation of the daughter, it could equally be read as condemning medical professionals and/or politicians legislating women's bodies.
- I read it as a mom supporting her daughter and being exasperated with the system. I didn't even realize it could be read the other way.
It can be read either way, but I checked her post history and she's no Trump supporter.
- And to me it's even simpler than that. It's a parent noticing the state of the country means kids aren't sharing what used to be standard answers to biological questions because there's no faith that the system won't stay out of their business.
  Scary AF imho.
We don't know that at all.
I rather assumed that mom was the one who told her to keep her mouth shut,

That's how you fucking die because the doctor didn't know enough of your medical history.

Doctor: "Are you allergic to anything?"

Person: "I have a few allergies but nothing you should worry about, please fill my prescriptions now".

Also I'm pretty sure a doctor knowing when you go on your period can be important when prescribing birth control.

If the state decides to punish people for having allergies and to violate medical confidentiality to force doctors to report these people - you wouldn't want to tell your doctor about your allergies either.
WOOOSH
not really. typically birth control is prescribed with instructions on when to start in relation to your period. they don't need to know the exact date.

This is horrific but being discussed in such a light manner.

Good for that kid!

https://youtu.be/x2qRDMHbXaM#t=24s

well, you don't have to answer the doctor, and he/she doesn't have to prescribe or help you. bye, don't come back. you don't get to ask for help then stonewall, just don't come.

...?
What the fuck is wrong with your head.
- ...?
  let's go somewhere where I need help, but refuse to answer basic questions. that sounds logical. how much help do you expect to receive? 😂🤣🤣
If you are capable of refusing service you have no right to ever call yourself a healthcare professional
- I'm not a healthcare provider. but if you can't answer simple questions, maybe don't go see one?

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