Is abortion illegal in the UK? I know they have some things backwards, but I thought the US led the world on the insanity of divide on this particular topic.
Because politicians and the media figured out that the easiest way to get people to watch/vote was to appeal to their most basic hatreds and fears, and to even create new ones. Essentially imagine human manipulation as a game, and the game has been solved already. Now this can be countered by teaching people how to actually think for themselves and form their own opinions, but we constantly try and reduce access to education in the world. Were kind of just fucked until the aftermath of WW3 imo.
It’s not in South Africa - abortion hasn’t been politicized… yet. So that is nice. But, on the other hand, we are being privatized and deregulated into oblivion - which isn’t.
Ya. This is what America deserves. You won’t like hearing it but this is the find out stage after fucking around for years.
They let tik tok tell them what’s important to them, so now you’ve got young people cheering for terrorists halfway across the world while their rights are being stripped at home.
This is exactly as planned and Americans won’t do a damn thing about it because they’ll get distracted by the next viral dance or dead gorilla. RIP Harambe.
The article and the events it covers are from the UK. You should probably read the article before commenting on it. I also highly recommend never trusting an Independent headline at face value; they’re infrequently backed up by the body of the article. This is a rare exception.
I’ve started to make a habit of reading every article I click entirely before reading let alone contributing comments. Now I see social in a whole new lens… the conversations… Nobody reads the articles.
The Independent was that trigger for me in 2016. I kept seeing headlines that were outrageous and fit my perspective. I’d get called on it and have to read the article only to find out it was pure clickbait. Often the article supported the opposite perspective, especially if you followed its sources. I wasn’t used to that, especially from papers of record. Usually blog posts that get big in the tech space don’t make outrageous claims they can’t back up.
I had The Independent filtered on Reddit for years. It’s the only QoL feature I regularly miss from Reddit clients. Once Lemmy apps add domain filters I’ll be back at Reddit client levels of functionality.
Cops trying to further victimize victims anytime they get the chance.
Did something bad happen to you? Don't fucking tell the cops and don't seek any help because people are awful and want to make you as miserable as possible whenever they can. That's the unfortunate reality we live in.
If you’re wondering why people don’t want to have kids you have very serious medical condition and should have the infected part of your brain removed immediately.
Right-wing political philosophy is becoming so authoritarian that we’re really harassing people who just lost their pregnancy, treating them like criminals until proven otherwise.
Keep in mind not every lost pregnancy is a choice. They are also trying to jail some of them for a personal tragedy they experienced. You have a spontaneous miscarriage and the doctor prescribes misoprostol to help with the process, then some asshat tries to throw you in jail because Jebus told him to.
My wife had a spontaneous abortion at week 11, we went for the second scan they found no heart beat and they sent us home… what happened in the following hours was fucking horrendous. I couldn’t imagine after that some copper wanting to come around for a blood test and to seize her phone, honestly my reaction would probably get me arrested.
honestly my reaction would probably get me arrested.
My 2024 bingo card has “cop beong shot by distraught husband” on it, and I’m really surprised it doesn’t happen a lot more. There was a shooting at a doctor’s office in Tulsa that was sort of the same thing.
Shootings are bad. Nobody argues that. That’s why we shouldn’t be giving people a reason. But noooo, women having sex makes baby jeeezuz cry.
Yes, the point to expansively criminalizing this sort of thing is that they then get to prosecute who they want, at their discretion. The lesson is always ‘know your place’ and it’s why these ghouls should never have power
Abortions are still deemed a criminal act in England, Scotland and Wales under the 1967 Abortion Act.
The Abortion Act 1967 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that legalised abortion in Great Britian on certain grounds by registered practitioners, and regulated the tax-paid provision of such medical practices through the National Health Service (NHS)
The key word there is it’s legalized on certain grounds and by registered practitioners.
So there’s probably a time frame when it’s allowed, or a preceding incident like rape or incest, and it can only be performed by a registered physician.
Under a law like the, it would still be a crime to use medications to induce a miscarriage of your own desire.
It’s all bullshit, but the UK has a lot of things where is technically legal to do something, as long as you’re willing to submit yourself to close government scrutiny.
No one was ordering their own abortifacients online in 1967, the rules were to outlaw “backstreet” abortions.
I don’t know what the limit is, but yeah there’s a cut-off for when a pregnancy can be terminated without medical necessity. When there is medically necessary it can be performed later.
Either way the procedure is available for free on the NHS.
While I think the rules are sound, you’d think the police would have learned from the disgraceful treatment of the mothers who were prosecuted - and subsequently had those convictions quashed - due to SIDS
Trust me when I say police should have absolutely nothing to do with anything healthcare related. They shouldn’t be making decisions about bodily autonomy. They shouldn’t be ordering blood work. None of it. Stay in your Fucking lane.
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