womenshealth

A #midwife & an associate have been arrested & charged w/illegally performing abortions in greater #Houston, acc/to court records & the #Texas AG, apparently the first #criminal arrests of #abortion providers since #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade in 2022.

#law #ReproductiveRights #health #WomensHealth #MaleSupremacy #BackAlleyAbortions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/abortion-arrest.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=69B9A807-AD57-4712-B295-54FF457D615B

New #blood test can predict if #breastcancer will come back with 100% #accuracy https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blood-test-predict-breast-cancer-101016790.html #healthcare #womenshealth #women

Emma Courtney is a PhD candidate studying #BreastCancer.

Under Trump's anti-#DEI EO, she can't use the words "woman," "female," "barrier," "race" in grant proposals to identify the scope of her work studying women's health or racial barriers to trtmt.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/10/stand_up_for_science_doge_protests

#WomensHealth #Health #Science #Research

Project 2025 and Trump have dropped a high-profile abortion case in Idaho.

What it means: emergency doctors no longer can carry out an emergency abortion to save the woman's life.

All you beautiful and innocent people out there, keep safe. ❤️

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-supreme-court-idaho-emergency-087ffe58073649062a9d9ef08f9d95f6

#MyPeriodDataIsMine #KeepSafe #privacy #privacyMatters #Abortion #AbortionIsHealthcare #womensrights #womenshealth #politics #AntiTrump #antiproject2025 #policies

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/21/texas-banned-abortion-then-sepsis-rates-soared_partner/

#women #womenshealth #texas #politics #misogyny

The right to bodily autonomy includes data autonomy.

Your #periodtracker shouldn’t turn into a #surveillance tool. If an app asks for your name, location, or other personal info - why?

Unless they’re planning to send you a cake on day one of your cycle (unlikely), they don’t need it.

Use a privacy first period tracker! 🙂

#MyPeriodDataIsMine #PrivacyMatters #PrivatePeriodTracker #MenstruationMatters #MenstruationTracker #womenshealth #HumanRights #ProBodilyAutonomy

"During the discovery process, another employee came forward to share a document revealing what was in the green 'frit' Yvette handled each day at work: the biggest ingredient was lead."

Justine Calma for The Verge: https://longreads.com/2025/02/25/the-women-who-made-americas-microchips-and-the-children-who-paid-for-it/

#Longreads #Manufacturing #SiliconValley #Technology #Miscarriage #Workers #Women #BirthDefects #WomensHealth

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#SCOTUS won’t hear challenge to #AbortionClinic buffer zones

At issue was a 25-year precedent that allows local governments to create protest-free buffer zones around all #health-care facilities, not just #abortion clinics.

#law #ReproductiveRights #medicine #doctors #WomensHealth #CivilRights #privacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/24/supreme-court-abortion-clinic-protest-buffer-zones/

We need more menstruators to stand up to menstruation taboos and create a safer world for everyone. ❤️

"With stained pants, Kenyan senator fights menstruation taboo"

https://apnews.com/article/menstruation-period-stigma-kenya-senator-593fed49b6272d113f791e97db7e8144

#MyPeriodDataIsMine #MenstruationMatters #MenstruationMatters #womensrights #womenshealth #period #private #PeriodTracker

Your cycle is personal. Your tracker should be too.

Most apps hoard your data somewhere in the cloud, but a truly secure period tracker encrypts it, stores it locally, and lets you control it completely.

No one should profit from your health. Privacy isn’t paranoia - it’s protection. Make the switch. 🔐

#MyPeriodDataIsMine #PeriodPrivacy #TakeBackYourData #PrivatePeriodTracker #PeriodTracker #womenshealth #womensrights #MenstruationTracker #MenstruationMatters

Anxiety isn’t always “all in your head.” It’s in overdue bills, unstable housing, food insecurity.

UBI is about real mental health care - by removing the relentless stress that keeps you up at night. Because you deserve peace. ❤️

#UBI #UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #UBI4ALL #mentalhealth #healthcare #politics #womenshealth #lgbtqia

Your body, your data, your rules.

No app, government, or company should have access to your cycle info without consent.

With growing concerns about reproductive rights, keeping period data private isn’t just personal - it’s protective. Use encrypted apps that keep your data on your phone and never share your password.

Stay safe you beautiful people 🙂❤️ 🌹

#MyPeriodDataIsMine #KeepDataPrivate #womensrights #womenshealth #lgbtqia

#MAGA #WomensHealth

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Most Texans favor adding more exceptions to Texas’ abortion ban, including exceptions for rape and incest, according to a study from the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2025/02/12/513617/a-majority-of-texans-say-abortions-should-be-allowed-in-cases-of-rape-and-incest-in-new-poll/

#Abortion #HealthScience #News #HobbySchoolOfPublicAffairs #KUT #WomensHealth

Another thing I'm sick of seeing are all these commercials for erectile dysfunction that use sexually loaded imagery bordering on porn designed to stimulate men while the #GOP wants to make not only #abortion & abortion pills but also #contraception for #women illegal.

Talk about male #GenderBias.

#WomensRights #WomensHealth

I have 3 family members just like the Senator.

“I refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate,” Pohutsky said during the rally, emphasizing that “a sitting government official opted for voluntary sterilization because she was uncertain she would be able to access contraception in the future.”

Pohutsky said she and her husband decided last year that they were done having children and began exploring options for more permanent forms of birth control, citing her concern after Trump won the election about being able to continue to access the contraception she had been using."

#Michigan #Family #ReproductiveRights #WomensHealth

https://michiganadvance.com/2025/02/11/death-threats-follow-michigan-democratic-lawmakers-decision-to-have-herself-sterilized/?emci=0be3796e-c3e8-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=88feae80-30e9-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&ceid=302644

Knowledge is power!

I'm sure you heard this before. Have you ever thought about that knowledge is built on information which is based on data?

Yes, data underpins everything and that is why it is valuable and powerful.

Keep you period data safe. Only you have power over your data and over your body. ❤️

#MyPeriodDataIsMine #MenstruationMatters #dataprivacy #data #womensrights #womenshealth #equality #politics

Ohio woman charged, but not indicted, after miscarriage sues city of Warren, Mercy Health in federal court #Ohio
#WomensHealth #USPol #Law https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/16/ohio-woman-charged-after-miscarriage-sues-city-of-warren-mercy-health-in-federal-court/

Frens, they're calling for Snow on tomorrow.

33% so far!

Be nice to have this met before then so I can get my essentials in the house. Don't wanna be stuck without.

I'm just gonna put this right there, I hope to get this fulfilled asap. Some items are of urgent n33d.

Anything helps.

https://ko-fi.com/khernandez/goal?g=0

#Mutualaid #disability #BlackMastodon #WomensHealth

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#womensissues #womensmemes #womenshealth #chronicillnessmemes #chronicillnesshumor

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From The Beaverton on🦋:

O Canada!

BREAKING: doctors starting to suspect women’s bodies work differently than men’s

Norman also shared that in the past, it’s been easier for women to simply get a chemistry degree & start making their own birth control in their bathrooms at home
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/12/breaking-doctors-starting-to-suspect-that-womens-bodies-work-differently-than-mens/

#WomensHealth #Satire

More than half of the Army's senior officers are turning down opportunities to command, choosing instead the stability of staff roles over the high-stakes demands of leadership, or retiring.

The Trump effect: degrading the #Military.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/12/13/more-half-of-senior-army-officers-are-turning-down-command-consideration.html

#TrumpEffect

Similar to the effect on #WomensHealth of bans on #abortion.

See how that works?

A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.

She was in California, where abortion is legal, but the #military #Health insurance, #TriCare, refused to approve the #Healthcare she needed even tho the fetus no longer had a heartbeat.

#WomensHealth

https://www.propublica.org/article/elizabeth-nakagawa-miscarriage-military-tricare-abortion-policy

Some more footage of our #prochoice musical clown parade in #boston !

#womensrights #womenshealth #abortionrights #AbortionIsHealthcare #boston #cambridge #SomervilleMA