#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 :(

[ourladyoftheflytrap]

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.

[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.

[marinemas]

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

[jalicecookie]

The Coconut Cake

Grace mostly keeps the Secret for her Coconut Cake to herself. Hoping no one is watching, as she stares dreamily at the Recipe and thinks of a pair of yellow eyes, that have their home in another Universe. There's nothing wrong with having a secret, and as a Robot, wasn't Grace allowed, to have something that was entirely hers?

"Mom? What are you doing? Are you okay?"

Diego and Klaus were standing in the Kitchen and were visibly disturbed, by the absent expression on Grace's face. The Robot was sitting at the Kitchen table,  with an old crumpled sheet of paper in front of her.

She seemed oblivious to the presence of her two unofficial favorite Children.

The robotic lady's blue eyes, were fixed on each line of the Recipe and you'd think, that it was just a very simple coconut cake recipe.

But for Grace, however, there was so much more to it....than anyone could thing about.

It was her little Secret.

***

"Darling? I'm home"

A smile spread on Grace's face.

Being addressed by a nickname was wonderful - and sad at the same time.

The blonde haired Lady wanted to celebrate the events of the last few months - she wanted to enjoy the fact, that a man finally giving her the Attention and Affection, that she deserved.

But the horrible and painfully truth reality stopped her.

She should not be here - not in this timeline - not in this Universe and especially not living with this human Body.

And above all, she was not allowed to be in a relationship with an Android.

Because this Android quickly won her heart.

She didn't want to hurt or push him away - but the Reality was different. If she continued to exist in this Universe - the effects would be fatal and chaos would break out.

Besides, her 7th adopted children and Mr. Hargreeves were waiting for her in New York City.

The sound of her boyfriend's voice shook Grace's heart and she found it hard to smile - like she always did, when Reginald Hargreeves ordered her to do something.

"I brought you Flowers. Geordi said, Roses would be appropriate, but I know you love yellow tulips, Grace."

Data handed her a bouquet of flowers, in his very special way and Grace didn't even ask, how the hell he'd gotten a bouquet of fresh yellow flowers on a Spaceship.

There was still so much she didn't understand.

Starting with the fact,  that her body was now human - however her mindset and action skills were at the level of a Robot.

And her love and affection for Data had manifested itself over the past 10 months. Even though the Android was unable to feel emotions and refused to let Geordi put the emotion chip back in, Grace felt, that he was trying hard and that he could love her in his own non-emotional way.

"That's so nice of you Data - thank you" - Grace stood up and took the flower bouquet carefully.

Data had pulled her into a hug and now his cold mechanical hand rested on her hip.

Grace didn't mind- because it was so completely different from the times,  Mr. Hargreeves had performed that touch on her.

As a Robot, Grace had been able to feel emotions, bonding with other People, and get emotionally hurt—she'd just been damn good at hiding it from the kids, Pogo, and Reginald Hargeeves.

With Data, she didn't need to wear a mask.

It was like Grace had the freedom, that her boss had always denied her.

With Data, Grace felt so much happier, freer and more loved.

And yet, she shouldn't even exist in this Universe, wich is set so many years in the Future.

A future that wasn't hers. She had simply been drawn into this Timeline.

Originally, Reginald wanted to do a check of her system in his office , while the Kids were in bed and asleep.

Grace had arrived at the agreed time and the first steps towards system analysis had been initiated - then suddenly there was a bright glow and she was on board the USS. Enterprise E.

Data has helped her navigate in this strange Future and accept herself with her strange human body.

This friendship between the Android and the Robot had quickly turned into a dating thing and for a while, Grace had been living in Data's quarters and the two were happy.

At first, they had tried to find a way back to the right universe and the right year for Grace - but nothing had helped and she had tried to come to terms with the new life.

Nobody knew , if time had stood still on Earth as Grace knew it.

She never thought she could be happy with a man  - as she was with Data.

"Are you alright Grace? You seem...worried?" - the Android inquired and his hand now wandered from her hip to her cheek and she could look into Datas yellow eyes.

The concern Data radiated was so real - and he can´t tell her again , that he was incapable of feeling emotions.

But was everything okay with her?

No - not really - her old life needed her... the Children needed her and her Existence in this Universe eventually put everyone at risk - Data included.

Also, there was something else, that Grace had noticed.

Because in the year 2371 there were still the old-fashioned pregnancy tests - with the two lines.

"To be honest Data...Riker said something about a supernatural being. Q has a way of sending me back to my timeline and universe - he says the disruptions in the space-time continuum,  caused by my presence could... ..have serious consequences for the entire cosmos and...for....you....." - Grace got no further when a sharp pain run over her and something warm ran down her leg.

A painful scream escaped Grace and she looked down her leg.

Warm blood flowed down and again was the wave of pain that took Grace's breath away.

"Commander Data to Sickbay...."

That's all Grace could notice, because her eyes went black seconds after - while something else mixed with the blood - another liquid was added and if Grace had studied the books in Reginald's library properly,  over the years, that was the induction of the birth - her water had broke and before she could think any further - her thoughts too -  were taken over by complete darkness.

Fuck.

***

"She's coming back - Hi Grace, please don´t move okay? You've lost a lot of blood...but the twins are fine" - the voice of Beverly Crusher reached Grace's ears , as she instinctively tried to sit up. What? Twins? Now she opened her eyes and was greeted by the bright light of the infirmary.

What happened?

"Twins? The last thing I remember is....", Grace was cut off , when Beverly started to scan her and told her something about the fact that , they were a pair of twins, a girl and a boy, who a few hours ago saw the light of life.

She gave birth to twins?

But Grace remained silent and endured the Examination. Her thoughts whirled around in her head like a Thunderstorm - she couldn't have spoken a proper sentence now.

***

"Miss Hargreeves - how are you doing?" - First Officer William Riker stood by her bedside a few hours later, eyeing her with concern. Of course he had cause for concern - but for other reasons,  more related to Grace's existence.

"Tired - Commander. I'm exhausted," Grace answered honestly.

"I don't want to destroy your joys of motherhood, but we've been able to contact Q and he's ready to send her back to your universe. Your presence in our universe is the fault of another Q - amazingly - who wanted to have fun. Q will show up here in two days", William Riker told her and Grace nodded exhausted.

Two days - 48 hours  - to process and deal with,  what had happened and spend time with Data and their Babies. Suddenly Grace felt like she had been hit by a stone - that was far too less time. She...she needed more time....somehow.

"I understand Grace - but I will miss you. You are and will be an important component of my internal storage space", Data said so formally that Grace laughed.

Even if the situation was anything but amusing. She was still waiting for the last check-up by Dr. Crusher and meeting her babies for the first time.

"I'll miss you too. But I don't belong in this Universe.....but we still have two full days Data and now I finally want to see our twins", Grace said softly and Data nodded before joining them a few minutes later, he came back holding two thickly wrapped babies.

Both were wrapped in blankets and appeared to be asleep.

Data carefully placed the two babies in Grace's arms and Grace's eyes automatically filled with tears.

The boy had black hair and the girl had blond hair.

When both opened their eyes, Grace was amazed.

The Boys eyes were blue and the Girls Eyes were yellow.

"Have you come up with names for them...my darling?", Data whispered not to scare the babies.

Grace nodded slowly and gently stroked the babies cheeks.

"Adrian & Zorina"

***

The 2 days went by far too quickly and the little family spent the last hours together, before Q's arrival in Data's quarters.

The twins slept cuddled together in their crib and seemed to enjoy each other's closeness.

Grace watched over the two - their babies - lovingly.

Dr. Crusher said they could grow up normally and that they couldn't cause disturbances in this universe.

But Grace would never see them again, she would miss everything important.

But that Adrian and Zorina were alive and would survive came at first Place.

With Data and all his friends by their side, the babies would be fine.

Data himself was in the kitchen, apparently trying to bake something.

They had bought a kitchen despite the food replicator, because after all, Grace was a great cook and Data, despite the lack of emotion when enjoying the meals, loved sharing it with Grace.

The blonde wondered,  what exactly her boyfriend was cooking there - but she was strictly forbidden to come into the kitchen.

"You'll be fine - someday your father will show you the picture he drew of me. I will always carry you in my...well...in my heart",  Grace whispered to the sleeping babies and she knew,  that going back to her old universe was the right decision.

"They will find out who her mother was and what she did for everyone's safety. Now close your eyes and open your mouth - I have a surprise for you Grace", Data said in a mysterious tone and Grace followed the instruction.

When Data then gave her a small piece of cake to eat, it took the blonde a moment to define the taste.

"Is that Coconut Cake?", she asked, her eyes still closed.

A kiss on her cheek from Data was the answer and Grace opened her eyes.

In front of her, Data held the plate with the homemade cake in one hand - in the other hand an old handwritten recipe.

"I want you, to take the recipe with you - as a...Memory", Data spoke and Grace smiled - her heart crying and her soul begging her to stay , as the time to say goodbye drew near.

***

"Are you guys done - exchanging time-wasting affection? Some of us still have plans and things to do!" - Q seemed bored when Grace and Data hugged and exchanged one last kiss.

The almighty being still had important things to do.

Grace broke away from Data, walked over to Geordi who was holding the twins and kissed both Adrian and Zorina lovingly on the head.

"I'm ready",  she said to Q - who snapped his fingers once and the two disappeared in a bright light.

The last thing Grace saw,  was the look in Data's eyes - and exactly two tears, that ran down the Android's cheeks.

***

"Grace! Now finally get up, the system error has been fixed. Get back to your work!"

Reginald Hargreeves' cool voice made Grace open her eyes again.

She was in her boss's office, she felt, that she was a robot again and that she had arrived in her right universe at the right time.

The blonde nodded and left the office - her hand felt inside her jacket as she left - and she was relieved to feel, the recipe for the coconut cake was still hidden there.

She would keep it a Secret, like the story of her absence to the parallel universe for several months.

After all, this were things Reginald Hargreeves didn't need to know about.

The cake recipe would be one of those things.

***

"Coconut cake? Sounds weird" "So many things sound strange to you, Klaus" "Huh- does that mean you know if I like coconut cake or not Diego? I'm allergic to it" "You aren't Klaus. You don't have any allergies" "You don't know me at all - and you call yourself my brother?!" "I saved your ass just last week - remember?" "Hm - was I high then?"

Her sons' arguing voices brought Grace back to Reality.

She folded the prescription and put it into her jacket pocket.

Then she put on that happy motherly smile and turned her attention back to her Children.

"There's no Coconut Cake today - but I can bake you cookies Boys? With extra chocolate chips", Grace said to Diego and Klaus, before humming happily, she started preparing the Cookie dough.

However, she would be making the coconut cake for dessert next week.

Luther, Vanya, Allison and Five loved this Cake.

Surely Grace would be able to make them happy with it.

The secret recipe for the cake, would remain her secret, however - as would her brief time together in the other Universe with Data.

Having and keeping secrets wasn't evil or wrong.

And wasn't Grace as a robot, allowed to have something that was entirely hers?

THE END

AO3

[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

[blackmagecat]

Time to tell you all a horror story. My own personal nightmare I’ve been living with for almost 2 years now.

[TW for pregnancy/childbirth trauma, stillbirth and infant mortality]

The minute I started my baby registry on Amazon was the minute I signed my soul away to unending torture. I lost my daughter at 34 weeks of pregnancy due to little blood clots that formed in my placenta that apparently nobody had been able to detect (but that's a story for another time...) Anywho, the algorithms had already been in full swing by that point, recommending and advertising every baby product under the sun.

But here's the thing. Those ads don't go away just because your baby is dead. In fact, they stick around, and assume that your kid is still there, growing. These things are so targeted, they have been literally serving me ads based around the relative age of my assumed-to-be-living child.

Do you have any idea how fucked up it is to have to watch your non-existent child age and grow in daily, targeted ads? To watch actors pantomiming milestones you'll never get to experience? And for what? To sell me diapers I can't buy?

Worse still, I think the algorithms are finally catching on that something happened to my daughter. Lately I've been getting ads like this:

They don't know what happened exactly, but you'd best believe they're ready to sell me something once they figure it out! My husband has also been getting St. Jude's ads left and right also, where previously he had next to none. Now it's every third ad on each YouTube video he watches, and that's been going on for weeks.

I wish it were illegal. I wish there was something I could do beyond praying that the VPN or ad-blocker I'm using will shield me. I've reported ads as often as I could, but my reasons are rarely listed in the little dropdown menu. I always end up picking "Other."

I can only imagine how many others are out there going through the same. Is it too much to hope we can all get together and file a class action somewhere, somehow? It's one thing to come across a random billboard, or actual TV commercial. I'm responsible for my own reaction to that. But its another thing entirely to have companies stalking you and using your personal history and trauma as a persistent, blunt force tool to make you spend money.

Also I've said this before but advertising is an industry that should be considered as pointless and harmful as fossil fuels.

[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.

[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)

[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

[ladywellcare111]

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