#also real quick I wanna say abstinence only sex ed is complete garbage

[schrodingerkilledmycat]

okay I just need to rant real quick about the things I'm realising since roe v wade and how bad sex ed is

also I beg of you if anyone knows a blog or user or post or resource that answers questions about pregnancy and stuff like that, PLEASE share them because it looks like so many people (including myself) were never taught any of the important stuff

apparently when they say "4 weeks pregnant" that means it is 4 weeks since the first day of your last menstrual cycle (which I think is the first day of your period?), NOT 4 weeks since implantation. so that means if you have a perfectly regular average cycle (28 days), and realise you're pregnant because you missed a period (say you waited a week since the expected start date), you are automatically 5 weeks pregnant. this was a major point of a post I just saw (will reblog next) and everyone in the tags seems to be completely unaware of this until the post cleared it up. that means that there are all these people (and this is only counting the people who put comment tags in their reblogs) who could only find out they're pregnant at 5 weeks or later, which means to get an abortion even in places where it's allowed, they need to do it immediately in order to have it done before the (arbitrary) week limit passes.

so it's clearly pretty bad for people with regular 28 day periods (which is a small minority to begin with). and this isn't even considering the people who have cycles with literally any degree of irregularity.

for those with irregular cycles or longer but regular cycles, I have literally no idea what this means for you, and part of my reason for making this post is because I want to learn this and get resources in case someone ever ends up in this situation and asks for my help.

for example, what if you take a contraceptive pill (not 100% effective) continuously so that you skip all bleeding but you happen to get pregnant anyway. there are people who do this and go for months without having any bleeding, so if you somehow get pregnant, what, are you like 11 months pregnant? maybe even multiple years pregnant if you take it continuously for that long or if you don't count bleeding on sugar pills as a proper period (technically it's not a period, just withdrawal bleeding). it goes without saying that this is absurd, but if that's how it's defined legally, people need to know that.

or what if you have a health reason that makes your cycle irregular, like pcos or being underweight or anaemia? these people are at especially high risk of health issues if they get pregnant, so maybe they could get an abortion under the category of "it would be harmful to the person's health to carry to term" but if they can't, and it's been too long since the start of their most recent period, then what?