In a mission statement earlier this week, the team at @ProPublica explained their plans on holding the incoming Trump administration’s feet to the fire. Here, they dive into the specific issues journalists will be following, and how to get in touch with reporters if you have information to share.

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#Trump #DonaldTrump #News #Media #Journalism #WomensRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Second Trump Presidency: Issues We’ll Be Watching and How to Get in Touch

During Donald Trump’s second presidency, ProPublica will continue our focus on the areas most in need of scrutiny. Here are some of the issues our reporters will be watching — and how to get in touch with them.

^ProPublica

"When the penalty for aborting after a rape is more severe than the penalty for rape, THAT'S when you know it's a WAR ON WOMEN."

#WarOnWomen #AbortionRights #RapeCulture #WeWillNotGoBack #WeWillWin #WomensRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #politics #Vote #VoteEarlyForDemocrats

I'm not content warning this, it's just a #woman in her underwear. Also, that would be irony

This is #Tehran’s Islamic Azad University on Nov 2

She was assaulted by #Iran's #morality #police because her #hijab was "improper"

So she just stripped

She was arrested and I don't think it will go well for her. Iran's weak, insecure, moronic hangups over #women's clothing is vicious cruel and violent. They kill women for showing their hair. It's all so fucking stupid

#womensrights #bodilyautonomy

Yes, Texas’s abortion laws are killing women. @ProPublica reports on another case — 18-year-old Neveah Crain, who was diagnosed with sepsis but sent home because her six-month fetus had a heartbeat, and on a subsequent visit, had delayed care because the obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise.” She died hours later. She and her mother, Candace Fails are both devout anti-abortion Christians, but supported it in the event of life-threatening illness. “I know it sounds selfish, and God knows I would rather have both of them, but if I had to choose,” Fails said, “I would have chosen my daughter.”

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#Texas #RoeVWade #Abortion #Healthcare #WomensRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Nevaeh Crain Died During a Miscarriage After Trying to Get Care in Texas Hospitals

It took 20 hours and three ER visits before doctors admitted the pregnant 18-year-old to the hospital as her condition worsened. She’s one of at least two women who died under Texas’ abortion ban.

^ProPublica

I had not seen this bonkers story, kudos to #TRMS for reporting it.

#BernieMoreno’s staff uses black box spy #VoiceScrambler tech so his words cannot be recorded after his “women over 50 are crazy” for caring about #AbortionRights comments.

via Business Insider

#Ohio #Senate #VoteBlue #SherrodBrown #SherrodBrownFightingForOhioans #ReproductiveRights #WomensHealth #WomensRights #USpol #OHpol #FreePress
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Ohio GOP Senate candidate uses tech to drown out audio recordings

Moreno's campaign acknowledged using a device that suppresses audio recordings to interfere with his opponents' ability to track him.

^{Bryan Metzger (Insider)}

Misogyny in medicine is focusing more on what a man might WANT than what a woman NEEDS.

I NEEDED a hysterectomy and was told I wouldn’t survive pregnancy.

“Informed consent” for surgery looked like this:

“Don’t you want to be a Mom?”
“You may want BIOLOGICAL children”

“What if you meet a man who wants babies?”

“What if he leaves you because you can’t bear his children?”

“Men went their OWN babies - what if you can’t do that?”

“You will feel like less of a woman.”

Brought boyfriend in to try and change their minds. Them to him:

“Will you still love her if she’s BARREN?”

“Do you want kids?”

“What if you change your mind & want kids - will you LEAVE her?”

Him: “Save her life what I want doesn’t matter” (he understood the assignment)

The assumption through the entire process - as I got sicker and sicker - was that I should WANT to risk my life for the CHANCE to bear a child.

That if I didn’t WANT that - I would change my mind when I met the “right man”

Apparently the “man of my dreams” will be so spectacular and the love so all consuming that I will be all too happy to put my life on the line to give HIM babies.

Needless to say I found that incredibly offensive. I was dying. I was incredibly sick. I needed surgery.

This is NOT “informed consent”. This is misogynistic and patriarchal bullying.

Informed consent would have been ensuring I knew it wasn’t reversible and would mean I could never have children. Letting me know risks of complications. Risk of prolapse. Risk of early menopause

None of that was covered. It was ALL about men and babies.

I actually did have a severe post operative complication that I was woefully unprepared for because “informed consent” failed me.

We must do better. Women need autonomy over their body. Inform us. Work with us.

Don’t put the needs of a man before of our own. Don’t treat us like incubators.

We are MORE than our ability to bear children. I lost my womb at 24 and I’ve never felt like less of a woman, less of a person. I’ve never regretted it.

Medicine needs to do better

One of the worst parts was that when I ended up having a complication - I was gaslit & ignored again. Told I didn’t know my body AGAIN. I needed my boyfriend to get them to even run tests.

Now - decades later - I’m still dealing with issues from the surgery and complication.
I can never know how different things might have been had they acted faster - but I DO know I was never able to fully trust the medical profession again.

My article on this is below - and I’m working on a future one about informed consent (or lack thereof)

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#reproductiverights #reproductivehealth #prochoice #womensrights #womenshealth #misogyny #patriarchy #obgyn #hysterectomy #tuballigation #endo #endometriosis #chronicillness #mybodymychoice
#fuckthepatriarchy #ableism #discrimination

My Most Dangerous ER Experience and How My Advocate Saved My Life

A story of medical gaslighting, negligence and neglect that very nearly cost me my life - and how my accidental advocate (untrained and unprepared) saved me.

^{Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)}