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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ConvictedFelon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConvictedFelon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/executiveorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#executiveorder</a> has ‘<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/legally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#legally</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/classified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classified</a> every <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#American</a> as a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/female" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#female</a>’ 'Trump just <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/abolished" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#abolished</a> all <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/men" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#men</a> as the order declares that a person belongs to the gender they are “at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a>.” <a href="https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/donald-trump-executive-order-has-legally-classified-every-american-as-a-female-388704/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/donald-trump-executive-order-has-legally-classified-every-american-as-a-female-388704/</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SarahMcBride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SarahMcBride</a> points out <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fatalflaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fatalflaw</a> in Trump’s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/executiveorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#executiveorder</a>: ‘He just declared everyone a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/woman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#woman</a>’ All <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#human</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/embryos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#embryos</a> follow a “<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/female" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#female</a>” <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/developmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#developmental</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/path" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#path</a> until the activation of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SRY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SRY</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gene</a> several weeks after <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a>, which sparks <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sexualdifferentiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sexualdifferentiation</a>. <a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/sarah-mcbride-president-donald-trump-executive-orders/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/sarah-mcbride-president-donald-trump-executive-orders/</a>

MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<a href="https://mastodon.social/@CdnCurmudgeon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@CdnCurmudgeon</a> THESE PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS.The article notes that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FetalPersonhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FetalPersonhood</a> language <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonnieDumbass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DonnieDumbass</a> snuck in declares people to be the gender they are biologically "at the moment of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a>"... noting that "at the moment of conception, ALL FETUSES ARE FEMALE FOR THE FIRST 5 WEEKS."

The Conversation U.S.Chronic drinking by both mice parents before conception has a lasting effect on the next generation, causing a 3x increase in age-related liver scarring in offspring. <a href="https://theconversation.com/drinking-alcohol-before-conceiving-a-child-could-accelerate-their-aging-new-research-in-mice-235762" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/drinking-alcohol-before-conceiving-a-child-could-accelerate-their-aging-new-research-in-mice-235762</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pregnancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pregnancy</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a>

beSpacific<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Airpollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Airpollution</a> can decrease odds of live <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birth</a> after <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IVF</a> by 38%, study finds. Research suggests impact of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pollution</a> begins before <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a> by disrupting the development of the egg <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/07/air-pollution-live-birth-ivf-fertility-study" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/07/air-pollution-live-birth-ivf-fertility-study</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pregnancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pregnancy</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/womenshealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womenshealthcare</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publichealth</a>

Weyoun 6<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Conception</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IVF</a> Senate Republicans block Right to IVF Act (S. 4445) on a vote of 48 in support and 47 opposed.<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4445/text" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4445/text</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/13/right-to-ivf-act" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/13/right-to-ivf-act</a>

Chuck Darwin“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth controlWhen asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning <a href="https://c.im/tags/contraception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contraception</a>.As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying, “she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.” Susan B. Anthony <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pro</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Life</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#America</a>’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control. “FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook. Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group <a href="https://c.im/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Americans</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/United" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#United</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/for" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#for</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Life</a> claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,” but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception “take the lives of their unborn children.” When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heartbeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Heartbeat</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/International" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#International</a> in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.The push to redefine the start of <a href="https://c.im/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#personhood</a> as the point of <a href="https://c.im/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a> holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods. Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control — including nonhormonal methods like condoms — play out. ♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for <a href="https://c.im/tags/TitleX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TitleX</a>, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States. ♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills. ♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.(4/4)<a href="https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Human</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Life</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/International" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#International</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IUDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IUDs</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Students</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/for" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#for</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Life</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marjorie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marjorie</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Taylor</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Greene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greene</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PlanB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlanB</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lauren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lauren</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boebert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boebert</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Matt</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rosendale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rosendale</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pulse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pulse</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Life</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Advocates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Advocates</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tea</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Party" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Party</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Catholic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Church</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hobby</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lobby</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roe</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marsha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marsha</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blackburn</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mike</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Braun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braun</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Griswold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Griswold</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roe</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dobbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dobbs</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Clarence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thomas</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blake</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Birth</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#control</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pregnancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pregnancy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#implantation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#implantation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birth</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IVF</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alabama</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disgusting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disgusting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joseph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Joseph</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scheidler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scheidler</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Randall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Randall</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Terry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Terry</a>

Chuck DarwinIn rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Human</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Life</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/International" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#International</a>, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent. <a href="https://c.im/tags/IUDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IUDs</a>, they insist, cause “early abortions.” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Students</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/for" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#for</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Life</a> of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.Georgia Republican Rep. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marjorie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marjorie</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Taylor</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Greene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greene</a> went so far as to proclaim that <a href="https://c.im/tags/PlanB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlanB</a> emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines. Colorado Rep. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lauren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lauren</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boebert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boebert</a> tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Matt</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rosendale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rosendale</a> tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion. In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pulse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pulse</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Life</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Advocates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Advocates</a>, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago. The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tea</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Party" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Party</a> movement came into power and fought alongside the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Catholic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Church</a> against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control. And in 2014, the retail chain <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hobby</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lobby</a> won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.(3/n)<a href="https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roe</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marsha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marsha</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blackburn</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mike</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Braun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braun</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Griswold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Griswold</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roe</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dobbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dobbs</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Clarence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thomas</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blake</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Birth</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#control</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pregnancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pregnancy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#implantation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#implantation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birth</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IVF</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alabama</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disgusting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disgusting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joseph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Joseph</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scheidler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scheidler</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Randall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Randall</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Terry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Terry</a>

Chuck DarwinThe political playbook for attacking birth control shares some similarities with the playbook for attacking abortion — a slow and steady chipping away of rights and access. Both efforts rely on measures like slashing funding for low-income patients, enacting parental consent laws to restrict minors’ use, and empowering ideologically supportive lawmakers and judges who push friendly legal frameworks.But the major difference between pushing to restrict abortion access and pushing to restrict birth control is that leaders are typically much quieter about their goals for the latter, aware that open discussion will prompt fierce backlash. They typically try to paint those who suggest they’d take aim at contraception as alarmists and conspiracists.When Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to codify access to birth control following the overturn of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roe</a>, for example, they were met with emphatic performances of exasperation.“This bill is completely unnecessary. In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited,” declared Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack during debate on the House floor. “The liberal majority is clearly trying to stoke fears and mislead the American people.”Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers — including Sens. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marsha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marsha</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blackburn</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mike</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Braun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braun</a> — have recently declared that ♦️Griswold v. Connecticut♦️, the 1965 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to birth control, was wrongly decided. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Griswold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Griswold</a> relies on the same legal right to privacy that underpinned <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roe</a>, and in his concurring <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dobbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dobbs</a> v. Jackson opinion in 2022, Justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Clarence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thomas</a> encouraged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” Griswold and other privacy-related decisions. Former Arizona Senate candidate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blake</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> went so far as to pledge to “vote only for federal judges who understand that Roe and Griswold” should be overturned.Leaders more than occasionally reveal their underlying beliefs. Recent statements, as well as recent actions from reproductive rights opponents, have sent clear reminders about how some influential activists really think about contraception: that it’s just another form of abortion.Activists aim to blur the line between birth control and abortionAnti-abortion leaders tend to take advantage of one basic fact about the American people: There is great confusion about how pregnancy works, how abortion pills end it, and how birth control and emergency contraception (such as Plan B) prevent it. For example, one recent poll found that a stunning 73 percent of Americans think emergency contraception can end a pregnancy.But among most medical experts, including those at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists — there is no confusion. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Birth</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#control</a>, including emergency contraception, prevents ovulation (when an egg is released) and fertilization (when egg and sperm meet). <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pregnancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pregnancy</a> begins when a fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterine wall, a process called <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#implantation</a>. Many fertilized eggs never implant.Yet for a highly motivated wing of the anti-abortion movement, pregnancy starts not at <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#implantation</a> but at <a href="https://c.im/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a>, and human personhood begins then too, not at <a href="https://c.im/tags/birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birth</a>. 👉These “fetal personhood” activists want to endow fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs with full rights and legal protections and thus frame any effort to prevent implantation — be it through discarding embryos from IVF or taking a daily birth control pill — as a form of killing unborn children.It’s a stretch of scientific consensus, but certain Christian activists have long clung to this idea and have slowly been codifying it in state law through bills that claim "human life begins at conception". More than a third of states currently have such laws on the books.To blur the line between abortion and contraception, many of these activists call birth control methods “abortifacients” — agents that induce abortion. ♦️But this is misleading because there’s no pregnancy to abort. ♦️Real abortifacients are the medications that end pregnancies, namely misoprostol and mifepristone.(2/n) <a href="https://c.im/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IVF</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alabama</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disgusting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disgusting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joseph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Joseph</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scheidler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scheidler</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Randall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Randall</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Terry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Terry</a><a href="https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf</a>

Eric MaugendreGouvernance par conformité ou facilitation ?« Les employé·es regardaient les principes émanant du bureau de l'IA responsable et disaient : "Je ne sais pas comment ça s'applique" », raconte un·e ancien·ne salarié·e. « Notre travail consistait à leur montrer et à créer des règles dans des domaines où il n'y en avait pas. »Selon les employé·es, l'équipe « éthique et société » a joué un rôle essentiel en veillant à ce que les principes de l'entreprise en matière d'IA responsable se reflètent réellement dans la conception des produits livrés :(en, 2023) <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs</a><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/gouvernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gouvernance</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/conformit%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conformité</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/d%C3%A9claratif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#déclaratif</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/facilitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facilitation</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/%C3%A9thique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#éthique</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/conformance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conformance</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/responsabilit%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#responsabilité</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/IAResponsable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IAResponsable</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/IA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IA</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ESG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ESG</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/RSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RSE</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/diversit%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#diversité</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a>

smeg125 House Republicans Back 'Life at Conception' Bill, No IVF Exception <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/house-republicans-life-at-conception-ivf-exception-2024-2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com/house-republicans-life-at-conception-ivf-exception-2024-2</a> <a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/ivf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ivf</a> <a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/ivfembryos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ivfembryos</a> <a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#family</a> <a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/familyplanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#familyplanning</a> <a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#abortion</a> <a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/reproduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reproduction</a> <a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/reproductivecare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reproductivecare</a> <a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a> <a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/prolife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prolife</a> <a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/prochoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prochoice</a>

AI6YR BenTrial begins for captain of the ill-fated Conception diving boat, which was consumed in flames and left 34 dead (most trapped below deck) <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/maritime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#maritime</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/disasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disasters</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Conception</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/SantaBarbara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SantaBarbara</a> <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/captain-conception-scuba-diving-boat-fire/3250899/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/captain-conception-scuba-diving-boat-fire/3250899/</a>

SLCW💥"<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Life</a> begins at <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a>" is a meaningless and intentionally-deceptive declaration that's meant to obfuscate the fact that <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#personhood</a> begins at <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birth</a>. The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> explicitly does not provide for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#legal</a> personhood tied to ambiguous and differing opinions about when life begins. But this is the sort of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/dishonesty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dishonesty</a> that is the foundation of the forced-birth movement.<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/abortionRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#abortionRights</a><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/09/ramaswamy-declares-life-begins-conception-previously-pointing-six-week-mark/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/09/ramaswamy-declares-life-begins-conception-previously-pointing-six-week-mark/</a>

Scientific FrontlineA comprehensive study of more than 400,000 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#children</a> - with over 11,000 conceived via in-vitro fertilization (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IVF</a>) - has found no link between IVF <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conception</a> and adverse <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/developmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#developmental</a> outcomes for school-age children. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Medical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sflorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sflorg</a> <a href="https://www.sflorg.com/2023/01/med01252301.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.sflorg.com/2023/01/med01252301.html</a>

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