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British Police are Using Period Tracker Data and Blood Tests To Investigate Patients Who Miscarry (www.themarysue.com)
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[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 73 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's dystopian shit like this that is beginning to make me despair of what my country will be in 10 years time.

The passing of the online safety bill, this sort of shit, the recent legislation making it more and more difficult to protest anything, the massive expansion of facial recognition cameras everywhere. We're on the edge of a bad period I think.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The UK has always been an oppressor lol

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

True, but it's definitely getting both worse and more blatant.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Worse than their genocides in Africa, America, etc?

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you genuinely asking me if the ramping up of invasive legislation in the UK is worse than genocide?

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because you said the country has gotten worse than historically, yes.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

...on a privacy related Community regarding a privacy related story, talking about privacy related legislation.

You're insinuating two entirely disparate things are the same. Privacy related legislation and our historical propensity for genocide.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Possibly could have reworded that last sentence. Unless it was a deliberate pun?

Can't think what they'd want from this though. And why the police? They've got better things to do, this is a health matter.

[–] cuchilloc@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah bro if shit hits the fan, we can use the tech against politicians & super-rich . They can’t hide, look at both sides of the coin. Just keep doing good, don’t fret on the darkest possible outcome.

[–] tillimarleen@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

can you point to any signs justifying your optimistic thoughts?

[–] cuchilloc@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Signs: programming is easy to learn. Learn to hack the things that make you scared. Afraid of mosquito-sized drones killing you? Kill your politicians with them first instead.

Mandatory “e-vax” passports? Hack them, show the world that they are useless as they are easier to forge than a stamped paper.

Databases holding miscarriages info to use the info against people in the future ? Corrupt their data, fill it with crap, or expose it so they have to shut the place down.

It’s not what the world can do for you…

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

if it's as easy as just 'hack them' what's stopping you?

[–] WillardHerman@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

“Given that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, and the vast majority of them are unexplained, this rise in investigations of and the treatment of unexplained miscarriage as suspicious is deeply concerning…”

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And it's often familial too.

My family on my mothers side and my eldest sister all struggled to carry pregnancies to term in their 20's, getting pregnant relatively easily, to then miscarry.

Heck, my mothers mom died in childbirth giving birth to her, she first had a long string of miscarriages and then was on the old side to have babies when my mom came along.

It's all a very "hey, lets stigmatize and traumatize these people that are going through a horrible medical and psychological event in their lives some more!".

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago

A lot of the time miscarriages also aren’t even known about, it just looks like an irregular cycle. So there’s a fairly good chance the pregnancy would be news to the person accused of getting an illegal abortion.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Three in four, according to Guttmacher. Half are due to failure to implant, and go by undetected.

But part of the problem is women who miscarry often suffer from mental illness, including an unreasonable belief that somehow they are at fault. (Selection is part of the gestation process. Many, many conceptions are incompatible with life even in perfect conditions.) So law enforcement may be capitalizing on a demographic that already feels guilty.

[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago

When authoritarians don't fear consequences, there's is no limit to what they are willing to commit.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Is abortion not legal in the UK?

[–] Conradfart@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Up to 24 weeks. Someone was recently jailed for self inducing an abortion near term. If we want to get technical, abortion is decriminalised in that it's an offence to do it unless it's done medically and two doctors need to sign off that it's necessary for the physical or mental health of the patient.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

So nearly the same as in germany. Ok

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Literally at the top of the article:

Though abortion is legal in the UK, there are TRAP laws in place requiring certain conditions to be met first, paramount of which is that two separate doctors need to agree that the patient meets the criteria of the 1967 Abortion Act before any treatment can go ahead. Self-managed abortion is a criminal offense with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in the UK, as is any abortion performed after the pregnancy has progressed passed 23 weeks and six days, unless the patient is at risk of serious physical harm or death, or the fetus has severe developmental anomalies.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks

[–] ma11en@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

It's legal and as are morning after pills.

[–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de -1 points 10 months ago

yes but 'the more you know' 🌈

[–] trouble2900@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Downvote this post for spreading fear-mongering, poorly-researched "journalism."

[–] bit_thanos@monero.town 6 points 10 months ago

Keeping track of livestock