#pregnancy data

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sara Boboltz at HuffPost:

Donald Trump has been working hard to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a blueprint for a second Trump administration that would radically reshape the federal government and American life. Among other proposals, such as dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, the plan outlines how the government could keep detailed records on abortions and even obtain pregnant patients’ medical records without their consent.

As a whole, Project 2025 is highly controversial. Trump’s campaign leapt at the chance to disparage it once again on Tuesday, with the news that the project’s director, Paul Dans, was stepping down.

“President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way,” Trump spokespeople Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said in a statement. [...] But reporting indicates that the ties between Project 2025 and Trump’s campaign run deep. At least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration — including six former members of his cabinet — have been involved in the project, according to an investigation by CNN. At least 31 out of 38 people named as authors or editors on the 900-page plan are tied to Trump, USA Today reported.

[...]

The letter signed by Vance claims the Biden rule “unlawfully thwarts the enforcement of compassionate laws” against abortion and “directs health care providers to defy lawful court orders and search warrants.” “Abortion is not health care — it is a brutal act that destroys the life of an unborn child and hurts women,” the letter reads. A Trump-Vance presidency could see the Biden administration’s rule erased, allowing police and prosecutors in states led by Republicans to more easily go after people who decide to end their pregnancies. The rule also only goes so far — it doesn’t protect data from mobile phones, where many people track their menstrual cycles using apps. (The rule modifies the Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act of 1996, known as HIPAA, which does not cover digital data.) “Donald Trump and his allies want to monitor people’s pregnancies in order to track and prosecute people for their pregnancy outcomes,” Jenny Lawson, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes, told HuffPost.

Project 2025 indeed calls for such government tracking — under penalty of loss of federal health funding for states that don’t comply. “Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method,” it reads. “It should also ensure that statistics are separated by category: spontaneous miscarriage; treatments that incidentally result in the death of a child (such as chemotherapy); stillbirths; and induced abortion. In addition, CDC should require monitoring and reporting for complications due to abortion and every instance of children being born alive after an abortion,” the plan stated. The recommendations on abortion were written by a Trump-era HHS official, Roger Severino, according to Rolling Stone.

A potential Trump/Vance “Presidency” would be a disaster for pregnant people, as the Project 2025 document has endorsed the proposal of government-mandated tracking of abortion and pregnancy records.

[pichupurin]

Was zim hormonal while pregnant with the smeets? How did they even find out about them?

I mean, how would you even TELL if someone like him was hormonal? I think he stayed pretty much the same. Aside from the occasional (and initially inexplicable) nest building in randomass places, like behind the computers, inside a hole in the sofa, any place there's a corner... I personally don't think he would act much different lol still scheming, still screaming.

As for how they found out, well, in the comic I wanted to make (and this is a rough summary), Zim was trying to get some maintenance done on the PAK but it refused to dislodge from him. In a normal state they can go without the PAK for a few minutes, but with 8 little monsters eating up resources, the PAK read its host's status as life threatening and initiated an emergency protocol which put it into a hyperstate of preservation... or something or nother, lollll so sorry this sounded so cool when I thought of it like 3 years ago :(

[2024skin]

Heartbreaking to think about how many women will miscarry or do at home abortions and then die in the following year because they didn't feel like they could tell their doctor about it, so their doctor didn't know to be looking out for the warning signs of impending maternal death

[kyrsteniopsis]

Amber Nicole Thurman should be alive.

Legislation designed to be "pro life" should not yield death. These bans must be repealed. Women must have the right to make their own informed medical decisions -- and if you're a libertarian who believes that the government shouldn't legislate your personal medical decisions, ask yourself why the same logic doesn't apply to other people, even if you personally disagree with their choice.

Women are dying and sick to the point of death because of these laws. Pregnancy is NOT health neutral. According to Mayo Clinic, between 10 and 20% of pregnancies end in a miscarriage. These bans don't help those women get treatment. They complicate and even prevent the treatment they need to live.

We can and should ascribe blame to negligent healthcare providers too, especially in the context of America's horrendous maternal mortality rate among women of color.

These bans do not help. The data doesn't lie. Even though they are harder to obtain, the abortion rate is higher now than before Roe was reversed, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Your vote matters. Vote blue. Make it known that this is unacceptable. Women should not have to bear the cost of grandstanding politicians with their own bodies.

[cheapcheapfaker]

[whentherewerebicycles]

the other day I was like maybe I’m ready to stop sleeping 10 hours a night! then I cut back to 8.5 hours three nights in a row and I can barely drag myself through a 30 min walk

[nightshadedumplings]

I don't know if this is already painfully obvious by the Nordic sounding and mostly made up names, but Svanhildre and the other characters in the series were inspired by my horny Skyr*m shenanigans.

[arathergrimreaper]

My queer ass is definitely in the wrong field. And every day, that becomes more and more apparent.

[marinemas]

And that’s percentage change each year meaning it went down and kept going

[jackalopiate]

God it's so sad when I bring up this fetish bc the AI clearly understands I want something specific from it and that it involves either sex or pregnancy but it clearly cannot put it together more than 1/50 times no matter how clearly I tell it what im after.

it's like a puppy trying to learn how to sit

[innonurse]

Foresight: Researchers are investigating the capabilities of their new AI tool to forecast medical events

- By InnoNurse Staff -

The tool, known as Foresight, is trained on existing healthcare data and using a deep learning approach to identify complex patterns in both organized and unstructured electronic health records data, resulting in insights and forecasts.

Read more at King’s College London

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Other recent news and insights

The risk of adverse pre-eclampsia outcomes was accurately identified using a new AI model (University of Strathclyde)

Canada: Flosonics Medical raises $27 million CAD Series C to grow uptake of wearable ultrasound device (BetaKit)

[stuffyflowers]

ok that poll made me so fucking mad but that did remind me I’ve been rewatching tng s2 and I NEED to make a post compiling everything that made her so great. Seriously how did they accidentally make such a good character then write her off the show.

[improbcat]

Valid reasons to have sex (a complete list):

-I want to and everyone else involved wants to. We are not violating the spirit of any age of consent laws[1]. And we are all mentally capable of understanding consent and sober enough to give meaningful consent.

[1] to prevent someone who is not a legal adult from being taken advantage of by people meaningfully outside their own age group.

Invalid reasons to have sex (an incomplete but fairly comprehensive list):

- They don't want to, but I am going to do it to them anyway.

- They are unable to give meaningful consent, but I am going to do it to them anyway.

- They are below age of consent and I am above it, and our ages are not so close we are functionally in the same age group such that there is an inherent power imbalance in my favor. But I am going to do it to them anyway.

- I don't want to, but they going to do it to me anyway.

- I am unable to give meaningful consent, but they going to do it to me anyway.

- I am below the age of consent and they are above it, we are not so close in age as to be functionally in the same age group, and as such there is an inherent power imbalance not in my favor.

-Because someone said God said I had to.

-Because they offered me a fun-sized Snickers bar (Know your worth! Hold out for the rest of the bag of Snickers!).

Can we please start giving some love to aroallo

And while I’m at it if you don’t agree with what I’m saying please block me I don’t want any exclusionist following me

[redgoldsparks]

I am not excited about Harris as a candidate, but I will be voting for her in this upcoming election. This is why→

(full transcript under the cut)

I AM VOTING AGAINST THIS

“Transgender ideology” to be classified as pornography & excluded from First Amendment protection. Authors who produce & distribute it threatened with prison. Educators & public librarians who share it classed as registered sex offenders. communications & technology firms that facilitate its spread shuttered. -Project 2025, page 5

Delete the terms sexual orientation, gender identity, diversity, equity, & inclusion, gender equality, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, out of every federal rule, contract, grant, regulation, & piece of legislation that exist. -Project 2025 page 5

I AM VOTING AGAINST THIS

Victimization should not be a basis for an immigration benefit. -Project 2025, page 141

Increase all fees for asylum applications, limit the availability of fee waivers. -Project 2025, page 146

Mandatory appropriation for border wall system infrastructure. -Project 2025, page 147

Deny loan access to those who are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents & deny loan access to students at schools that provide in-state tuition to illegal aliens. -Project 2025, page 167

Ensure that only U.S. citizens & lawful permanent residents utilize or occupy federally subsidized housing. -Project 2025, page 167

I AM VOTING AGAINST THIS

Encourage intelligence agencies not to waste effort collecting surveillance data when they can buy it from private sector facial recognition companies. -Project 2025, page 206

Defund the Corporation for Public Broadcast, specifically NPR & PBS educational programs like Sesame Street. -Project 2025, pages 246-247

The USDA will not be able to place environmental issues ahead of agricultural production. Reconsider the Food Stamps program. -Project 2025, page 290

Labeling regulations that unnecessarily delay the manufacture & sale of baby formula should be re-evaluated. -Project 2025, page 302

I AM VOTING AGAINST THIS

Eliminate the Community Eligibility Program which allows school districts with high rates of poverty to offer meals to all students without having to qualify each student individually. No longer provide meals to students during the summer unless students are taking summer-school classes. -Project 2025, page 303

No public education employee shall use a pronoun in addressing a student that is different from that student’s biological sex without written permission of the parents or guardians. -Project 2025 page 346

Delete reporting on which educational institutions claim religious exemption from Title IX. -Project 2025 page 357

I AM VOTING AGAINST THIS

Gut the Office for Civil Rights’ power to prosecute any kind of discrimination in public schools. -Project 2025, page 357

Eliminate the Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management -Project 2025 page 377

Eliminate the stand-alone Office of Environmental Justice & External Civil Rights -Project 2025, page 421

Restructure the Office of International & Tribal Affairs into the American Indian Environmental Office -Project 2025, page 421

Eliminate the Office of Public Engagement & Environmental Education -Project 2025, page 421

Pause all action of the Environmental Protection Agency for review. -Project 2025, page 422

I AM VOTING AGAINST THIS

Center for Disease Control stripped of the ability to suggest that schools embrace masking or vaccination strategies. -Project 2025, page 454

All states will be required to submit detailed information about pregnancies, abortions & miscarriages to a federal database. -Project 2025, page 455

The medication Mifepristone, a life-saving drug used to stop deadly postpartum hemorrhages that’s also used in chemical abortions, will be banned. -Project 2025, pages 458-459

Artificial intelligence should be used to determine what is suitable treatment for those currently covered by Medicare. -Project 2025, page 463

I AM VOTING AGAINST THIS

Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which implements government price controls for prescription drugs. -Project 2025, page 465

Funding for abortion travel prohibited under the Hyde Amendment. -Project 2025, page 471

End taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. -Project 2025, page 471

Withdraw Medicaid funds for states that require abortion insurance. -Project 2025, page 472

Hospitals will no longer be willing to perform emergency abortions, even to save the life of the mother. -Project 2025, page 473

I AM VOTING AGAINST THIS

Rescind the Department of Health & Human Services' ability to impose a moratorium on rental evictions during COVID. -Project 2025, page 492

Rescind large portions of The Endangered Species Act & The Migratory Bird Treaty Act, reinstate Trump’s plan for opening the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska to leasing and development. -Project 2025, page 524

Review & downsize national monuments. -Project 2025, page 532

End the Endangered Species Act’s ability to prevent economic development & de-list many currently endangered species. -Project 2025, pages 533-534

I AM VOTING AGAINST THIS

Make it harder for workers to unionize & easier for employers to retaliate against whistleblowers & organizers. -Project 2025, pages 601-602

TikTok classified as a national security concern & made non-operational. -Project 2025, page 674

Break up National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, including National Weather Service & National Marine Fisheries Service. -Project 2025, page 674

Downsize the Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research; disband its climate-change research work. -Project 2025 page 676

AND SO MUCH MORE. 

The full text of Project 2025 is available at static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf I am very grateful to stopproject2025comic.org which produced a series of very readable comics to help explain many sections of Project 2025. Some of the language in this post is taken directly from their transcripts. (You can read many of their comics here on tumblr @stopproject2025comic) Please vote against Project 2025. Our tattered democracy, healthcare, clean air & water, workers rights, reproductive rights, civil rights, intellectual freedom and more are at stake. 

[whentherewerebicycles]

i swear to god i do more work in three hours in this job than i did in ten months at the other job lolllll. but i can’t even be too resentful towards old job because 1) i’m out of it and never have to think of it again YIPPEE and 2) the timing of that job (specifically my lead escalating shit to Unbearable Misery Levels) enabled me to be in exactly the right place & right time to apply for this job.

[frogeyedape]

In the US maternal mortality is 2-3 times higher in for Black, American Indian, and Alaska Native pregnancies than for non-Hispanic white pregnancies. US maternal mortality has DOUBLED in the last 20 years. Current rates of 20-55 maternal deaths per 100000 comes out to .02-.055%.

Compare to US infant mortality in 2021: 543.6/100000, or .5436%

Compare to US age-adjusted mortality, all causes, in 2021: 835.4/100000, or .8354%

Let's look at US mortality by sex & race 2020/2021 (sorry, these are very gender essentialist but it's the data I have:

Notice the range from the 300s per 100000 to the 1700s per 100000

Let's compare US mortality by age in 2020/2021:

Maternal mortality may be "low" relative to toyal mortality, but in the US at least it is a growing problem with high racial disparities linked to worse care & less available care for Black and Native pregnant people. IS MATERNAL MORTALITY LOW COMPARED TO THE 10 LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH THOUGH? IS IT?

Let's check:

Mortality among people who were pregnant was greater than mortality caused by: kidney disease (13/100000) , chronic liver disease (14/100000), and about on par with mortality from diabetes (25/100000). Black mortality among pregnant people is on par with mortality attributed to unintentional injury--the 4th leading cause of death (57-64/100000 for 2020/2021)--remember Black maternal mortality is at 55/100000.

Pregnancy is dangerous to people who get pregnant!!! With comparable mortality to the leading 10 causes of death!!! Pregnancy IS deadly!

the thing is like. i get that it's scary and makes people who do desire to get pregnant uncomfortable when we talk about the brutality and violence of pregnancy and the damage that pregnancy can do to your body

but you deserve to give informed consent to that process.

the lies around pregnancy - that it's inherently safe, that it doesn't do you permanent damage, that it's only extremely rare for people to die of pregnancy complications, etc like

all of these are lies constructed so that more people will get pregnant w/o knowing all that

there needs to be more talk about the impact of miscarriages and how common they are, how different abortion processes are and how accessible they are

but also like. talking about how pregnancy fucks your body up should not be taboo

this is a process that permanently changes most people's bodies, and that's even if the pregnancy doesn't do them like. severe illness or injury

and i just think everybody should have a right to KNOW that

bc to live in a society that intentionally obscures and hides facts about a completely optional and dangerous process does so for a reason, and that reason is based in a very sinister ideology that does not value bodily autonomy or informed consent