President Biden signaled that he may take executive action to protect abortion access in the likely event that the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this summer.
Thank you, President Biden!!!
Dunno why we even have Congress. Dudes, you do realize that you can pass this thing called âlawsâ and send them to the president to sign, right?
Sternly-worded letters not exactly carrying the weight of a change in statute.
Fewer letters, more fucking legislation.
67% of the adult population supports Roe. A President for all the people.
Fuckinâ A right, Mr. President!
What good would that do? To put off the day of reckoning yet again? And what would stop a truly fascist a-hole president from issuing an executive order to make all abortion illegal and to prosecute every woman who got an abortion under the previous EO? We need to stop playing games here and come up with a permanent solution.
Got that permanent solution in your pocket? Cause I donât.
Saw the documentary last night about the Janes - really young women who did abortions illegally. Man they were brave.
The only chance we have at a permanent solution is holding the House and adding at least two Senators, and that means our only chance is that all of us who care - every one of us - must work to GOTV for the midterms.
All other talk is BS.
If my wife hadnât told me she was pregnant for some reason, Iâd have found out by all the coupon mailers for diapers and formula and car seats we started getting all of a sudden. Women have complained for years about people they didnât want to know, finding out this way. The President should start there.
Direct the FTC to make that illegal. Direct DOJ to enforce HIPAA strictly and surely with maximum penalties, for pregnancy related information. Make it illegal for credit card companies to sell or trade purchase histories of prenatal vitamins or any other baby related stuff.
States should lose their DOT funding if itâs legal to track a person by their license plate.
They deserve to be destroyed at the ballot box. Are we up to it? Can we keep our focus long enough to make them pay? âA Republic if you can keep it.â
Not a HIPAA thing. That only covers things like the doctors and the facilities and treatment.
Those companies are snagging that stuff off of retail purchases, thereâs been a few write-ups on the general analysis process and how they create the predictive models (doesnât even have to be an actual pregnancy-related purchase, they can correlate from other purchases entirely to determine to a high level of confidence that the shopper is in fact likely pregnant).
The way to tackle the stuff is to decline all of those memberships and tracking and forgo the âbenefitsâ of giving the companies your information. And use cash.
HIPAA doesnât prevent disclosure of patient information in response to a criminal subpoena.
All that other surveillance should be illegal, too. The abuse of technology to identify expectant mothers is extra-wrong, but no theory of nothing or other explains why I should have to pay 25¢ a pound extra for meat, if I donât agree to tell the clerk my email address.
While Iâm at it, it should be illegal to advertise anything but the final sales price, inclusive of all taxes, fees and other add ons.
Thatâs it - that is the only chance to do something about it but the SCOTUS hasnât officially ruled on it yet and it would be best to know what they use to overturn Roe if they do, to see what dissents say if there are any and there will be and what there is in the dissents that can be used to write law. But theyâll get power again and erase everything weâve done if we canât find a way to prevent that.
Ah, but youâre not paying more, youâre just not getting a discount. And therein is the key. Capitalism, not going to see any of that go away any time soon.
I use my 95yo momâs Safeway customer loyalty ph#.
I should go buy some pregger stuff just to prank her.
Sure but it prevents health care workers from using their info to seek a Texas bounty. Or Oklahoma and whoever else copycats that monstrosity
I was thinking precisely of that Target storyâglad you posted it here.