Again… How many people have gone to prison from this information? Because lack of prenatal care or access to reproductive care is responsible for over 1k deaths a year in the US alone.
You don’t get to make that claim. You only get to claim harm arising from a patient refusing to provide dates of last menstruation, or similar information that can be used to time a pregnancy. The idea that women shouldn’t seek care at all is your own strawman. I didn’t make any such claim whatsoever. My claim is only that people should not be testifying against themselves to medical professionals.
And we have even more people determined to protect abortion rights, and many states have constitutional protections for this exact reason
And when they are charged or sued in a state that doesn’t?
One of the major hurdles for prenatal and pediatric care among minority communities is a general distrust in medical systems. This stems from systemic racial inequalities that a lot of people within the medical system are attempting to actively change.
Those “systemic racial inequalities” you’re talking about? Those exist. “Just trust doctors” doesn’t solve them. “Just pretend there are no legal risks” doesn’t save patients from having their medical data used against them. That’s great that people in the field are actively trying to change that. But it does not change the fact that people outside the field are actively working in the opposite direction.
While we are waiting for sanity to be restored, anyone who can get pregnant and find themselves in the jurisdiction of a hostile state should consider the legal ramifications of discussing their period.
You don’t get to make that claim. You only get to claim harm arising from a patient refusing to provide dates of last menstruation, or similar information that can be used to time a pregnancy. The idea that women shouldn’t seek care at all is your own strawman. I didn’t make any such claim whatsoever. My claim is only that people should not be testifying against themselves to medical professionals.
And when they are charged or sued in a state that doesn’t?
Those “systemic racial inequalities” you’re talking about? Those exist. “Just trust doctors” doesn’t solve them. “Just pretend there are no legal risks” doesn’t save patients from having their medical data used against them. That’s great that people in the field are actively trying to change that. But it does not change the fact that people outside the field are actively working in the opposite direction.
While we are waiting for sanity to be restored, anyone who can get pregnant and find themselves in the jurisdiction of a hostile state should consider the legal ramifications of discussing their period.