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British Police are Using Period Tracker Data and Blood Tests To Investigate Patients Who Miscarry (www.themarysue.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DevCat@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Police in the United Kingdom are using data from period tracking apps and mass spectrometry tests conducted on blood, placenta, and urine to investigate patients who have had “unexplained” miscarriages.

Though abortion is legal in the UK, there are TRAP laws in place requiring certain conditions to be met first, paramount of which is that two separate doctors need to agree that the patient meets the criteria of the 1967 Abortion Act before any treatment can go ahead. Self-managed abortion is a criminal offense with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in the UK, as is any abortion performed after the pregnancy has progressed passed 23 weeks and six days, unless the patient is at risk of serious physical harm or death, or the fetus has severe developmental anomalies.

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[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

People can have severe forms of ADHD. It's typical to not be able to use a calendar.

[-] Womble@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

so somehow said people can pick up their phone, unlock it, open an app, go through sone shitty ui, and enter information through a touch screen.

But they cant put a mark on a piece of paper?

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes because the piece of paper doesn't give me a visual reminder when I forgot to make an entry.

I can tell you what would happen if I'd use such a calendar because of ADHD:

Pens will get lost.

When it's time to replace the paper for a new month or year, I would procrastinate on that. Potentially for a very long time.

I could also not use that paper calendar for anything else because I can't manage my appointments and schedules on paper (frequent corrections, reminders, paper doesn't have backups and copies, ...).

I can't take the paper calendar with me so I wouldn't have my appointments on the go. Having two calenders would exponentially grow the problems described above.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

They're just selfish lazy cowards making excuses for not changing their behavior, that's all.

They want their perfect little world handed to them by someone else and they're mad that the world has agency of its own they have to actively compete with to get what they want, which does not allow them to live the passive and risk-free lifestyle they want.

Laugh at them, for they bring their suffering onto themselves.

[+] rosymind@leminal.space -13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So if I have ADHD and I can use a calendar just fine, my way is irrelevant because other people with ADHD can't?

ETA: if your ADHD is so bad that you can't make a dot on a calendar then enlist your caretaker to do it for you.

Final edit: JFC. The point of the edit was this: back in the day.people still had ADHD. Somehow, perhaps by some miracle, those women/menstruating persons WERE able to record their periods successfully. Smart phones and App (this will be shocking to a lot of you smooth brains in the comments) didn't always exist. Holy shit

[-] charlytune@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Most adults with ADHD don't have 'caretakers' and have to find their own strategies that meet their own needs. Yours works for you, great, other people have different needs though.