seeing a lot of posts saying…

'get your IUD now'
'stock up on Plan B'
'here's where to find mifepristone'

but nowhere have i seen posts saying…

'seriously consider getting a vasectomy [so you can potentially avert the risk to someone's life or livelihood]'

as someone that's had one, there's usually a 3 month waiting period so you have time to think it over. when you go in for the procedure, it takes about an hour—half of it filling paperwork out, changing into a gown, and waiting for the surgeon. recovery took me about a day to feel 70% normal, then roughly a week to get back to 100%. there are typically no obvious signs there's been an incision since the way the procedure is done is so minimally invasive and there's zero impact to sexual or urinary function.

at this point, taking it upon yourself to get a vasectomy and talking openly about it is direct action, or at least adjacent

#health #harmReduction #bodilyautonomy #reproductiverights #reproductivejustice #reprojustice #planb #contraceptives #abortion #abortionrights #mifepristone #vasectomy #sexualhealth #harris #trump #election #election2024 #postElectionPrep #directAction #resist #resistance

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
businessinsider.com/bernie-mor…

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)}

Opponents of #Missouri #Abortion Rights Amendment Turn to Anti-Trans Messaging and #Misinformation
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Facing poll numbers showing support for a proposed amendment that would ensure #ReproductiveRights in the state, abortion opponents have poured more than $1 million into a last-minute campaign to undermine support leading up to the #election.

propub.li/3YrtlI9

#News #Trans #Government #USPolitics #Politics #Health

Opponents of MO Abortion Rights Amendment Turn to Anti-Trans Messaging

Facing poll numbers showing support for a proposed amendment that would ensure reproductive rights in the state, abortion opponents have poured more than $1 million into a last-minute campaign to undermine support leading up to the election.

^ProPublica

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)

🧵 1/2

disabledginger.com/p/my-most-d…


#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)}

"Appalling": #RuthBaderGinsburg family denounces pro-#Trump “RBG PAC” ads

#RBG’s family called the shadowy PAC's pro-Trump ad buys an "affront" to the late justice's legacy

A Trump group is spending millions in #DarkMoney to claim he would defend reproductive rights while brandishing late #SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name.

The so-called RBG PAC spent nearly $20M to boost Trump’s campaign, per #FEC filings revealed on Fri.

#ReproductiveRights #HarrisWalz2024
salon.com/2024/10/25/appalling…

"Appalling": Ruth Bader Ginsburg's family denounces pro-Donald Trump RBG PAC ads

The family called the shadowy PAC's pro-Trump ad buys an "affront" to the late justice's legacy

^Salon.com