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And stop using those period tracking apps. Get a notebook and a pen.

If you have kids in college in abortion hostile states? You should really be talking to them about digital and physical security when it comes to repro healthcare.

The system is becoming increasingly carceral and it's gonna target white people who are not used to being on the receiving end of such treatment.

Basically if you're white, the state really wants you to stop terminating your pregnancies.

Look at what these three Republican attorneys general are arguing in the latest mifepristone lawsuit about how the FDA depriving them of pregnant teenagers is a sovereign injury. [unlocked post] patreon.com/posts/114456742?ut

Imani Gandy

Even if you have kids in states where abortion is currently legal, that can easily change. So just talk to them about digital and physical security. Particularly if they're going to try to seek abortion care without telling you.

Arm them with information so they don't get got.

@AngryBlackLady I read they tried to pass a law in my state (GA) making IUDs murder, too. I have had an IUD for ten years, it's overdue to be swapped, but I'm now afraid to let anyone do it, because it feels less risky to have had an old one, than to have just gotten a new one. Assuming my local (rural) practice would even do it - I have been turned away on religious grounds before in Virginia. I would get sterilized, but can't, due to covid risk. Surgery is not safe for me. It's a nightmare.

@secretsloth @AngryBlackLady
Leaving it in is a gamble I would not recommend. I had an IUD that was past its replacement date and I got pregnant. We decided we wanted to keep it, not realizing that that was not a viable option. At 5 months I lost the baby. (There were other contributing factors, like a social worker who totally left my paperwork in their inbox for over a month, the whole time I was denied care, but according to social service, I was covered. They just never got around to telling my provider.)

@Darkphoenix thanks. I'll definitely bring it up when I have my next appointment (it expired this year, it isn't waaaaay out of date). Truth be told, I suspect I have endometrosis or a fibroid or two... :lies_down: and I already have pretty severe long covid, so... unless hospitals start mitigating, that's information I just have to sit on. It's gonna be... a difficult appointment, all around. :bunhdsad:

@Darkphoenix also (been struggling around covid brain with how to say this so please excuse me if the words are wrong,) but I'm so sorry you lost a pregnancy you wanted to keep. I hope you are healing and getting whatever support you need. 💜 I really appreciate your telling me, especially since I'm in a state where pregnancy is especially perilous. State, where I live, state, of my body. Thank you, truly. And my heart goes out to you.

@AngryBlackLady Yk they're nuts when they want to outlaw birth control. Whack jobs. Vote Blue today! 💙

@AngryBlackLady Texas we actually have a Bounty $10,000! If an uber driver knowingly drives to get an abortion ..... redneck evil. Vote Blue 💙

@Tracella
I hope everyone is turning in Ted Cruz's daughters, Abbotts kid and every woman associated with Paxton and Patrick.

@AngryBlackLady Immediately delete any period tracking apps as they will rat you out the cops.

@AngryBlackLady I read this thread when you originally posted it. Not 3 days later my 16 yo daughter told me she was looking to download a period tracking app!! 😳 We’re in CA, where theres a false sense of safety. I told her all this stuff & hopefully she’ll just use a calendar. The fight never ends.