#ReproductiveHealthcare

The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethicsjlme-journal.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-05-09

New Open Access article on FirstView: "Origin of 'Conscientious Objection' in Health Care: How Care Denials Became Enshrined into Law Because of Abortion" by Christian Fiala, @joycearthur.bsky.social, and Amelia Martzke. #abortion #ReproductiveHealthcare www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Independent Articles
Origin of“Conscientious Objection” in Health Care: How Care Denials
Became Enshrined into Law Because of Abortion
Christian Fiala1, Joyce Arthur2 and Amelia Martzke3
1Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE, Sweden; 2Independent Scholar, Vancouver, CA, Canada and 3University of British
Columbia, Faculty of Medicine (MS1), Kelowna, BC, Canada
Abstract
The United Kingdom was the first country to legalize the refusal to provide health care in the name of“conscientious objection”, allowing
doctors to refuse to provide abortions based on personal or religious beliefs.
A historical review into the origins and motivation behind the“conscientious objection” clause in the 1967 Abortion Act found that
Parliamentarians and the medical profession wanted to preserve doctors’ authority over patients, protect objecting doctors from liability,
and appease religious anti-abortion beliefs.
These factors point to an unprincipled basis for the introduction of“conscientious objection” into healthcare, which ultimately came at the
expense of patients’ rights and health. The“conscience clause” also represented a negation of basic ethical directives in medical practice
including patient autonomy and physicians’ fiduciary duty to patients. The term“conscientious objection”
— borrowed from the military but
misapplied to healthcare— helped mask the practice as a moral“right” of doctors, even while it disregarded patients’ health and dignity
My Period Data Is Mine!myperioddataismine@mastodon.world
2025-04-24

There are many myths around menstruation which end up harming those who menstruate.

Please, if you, or someone you know, menstruates, read up on the facts and stick with science when it comes to reproductive healthcare. ❤️

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrua

#MyPeriodDataIsMine #MenstruationFacts
#KeepDataPrivate #PrivatePeriodTracker #ReproductiveHealthcare

2025-04-08

Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund is raising money to fund people's abortions! They are $14k into their goal of $115k.

Kick them a few $$ if you can. Ask friends and family to chip in if they have money to spare.

fund.nnaf.org/campaign/eastern

#AbortionRights #WomensRights #Abortion #ReproductiveHealthcare #Massachusetts #BostonMA #Fundraising

2025-04-01

Of the ~25M #women who receive #ContraceptiveCare annually, 18% receive it from publicly supported #clinics, including #TitleX-funded centers, Baden said. They include women who are #LowIncome or #underinsured.

In 2019, during #Trump’s first term, his admin altered the half-century-old program banning clinics receiving Title X aid from referring patients for abortions.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #AbortionIsHealthcare #law

2025-04-01

“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.

Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.

#FammilyPlanning #MaternalMortality #BirthControl #law #USpol

2025-04-01

The WSJ reported last week #RFKJr’s #HHS planned an immediate freeze of $27.5M in #FamilyPlanning grants for groups including #PlannedParenthood.

PPFA says >300 #health centers are in the #TitleX network & Title X-funded centers received >1.5M visits in 2023.

The loss of funding will mean that “cancers go undetected, access to #BirthControl is severely reduced, & the nation’s #STI crisis worsens,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, PPFA president.

#ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #law

#Gaza #UN #ReproductiveHealthcare

How many embryo's destroyed ?? Very "Pro Life" of them.

"Israel’s attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza ‘genocidal’: UN probe" [3:08 min]
by Al Jazeera English

youtube.com/watch?v=iWXIV0eICq

Quote by AJE:
"Mar 13, 2025
Israel has carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying women’s healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza and using sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts have said.
On Thursday, the Geneva-based Independent International Commission of Inquiry said in a new report that Israel “intentionally attacked and destroyed” Gaza’s main fertility centre while simultaneously blocking medicine for pregnancies, deliveries and neonatal care from entering the enclave.
The report found that Israel used sexual, reproductive and gender-based violence as a strategy of war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at the Human Rights Council describing the findings as an 'anti-Israel circus."

#NeverAgain #StopTheGenocide
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant #SmotrichRaus

My Period Data Is Mine!myperioddataismine@mastodon.world
2025-03-08

Today is #InternationalWomensDay and whilst there is a lot to celebrate, it is the most dark IWD day in my lifetime because:
- In the US, female #ReproductiveHealthcare has largely been stopped.
- In the UK, there is active campaigning to follow the US model and stop abortion.
- In Poland, #abortion is already #illegal - unless you are about to die.

Keep yourself #safe and keep your period data #private because it may save your life one day. ❤️

#MyPeriodDataIsMine #KeepDataPrivate #Privacy

2025-03-08

#LocationTracking is everywhere - often on by default. Your phone logs your movements, & apps sell this data.

Ask yourself: Do I want my grocery trips, doctor visits, or late-night walks mapped & monetized?

Disable location history, limit app access, & consider using a burner device when privacy is crucial.

On this International Woman's Day, I'm thinking of all the #women who are looking for #ReproductiveHealthcare in the US.

Be safe ❤️

#KeepDataPrivate #Privacy #internationalwomensday

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱Crispius@infosec.exchange
2025-03-06

@chad
There’s possibly more to this, remember when Smith’s government transferred operation of some Alberta hospitals over to a Catholic-based operator? This opens the door to taxpayer-funded hospitals refusing to perform certain services that are inconsistent with their religious beliefs. Think: #ReproductiveHealthcare #MAID #GenderAffirmingCare

#CDNPoli #CanPoli #ABPoli #ChristoFascism

thebigstorypodcast.ca/2024/09/

My Period Data Is Mine!myperioddataismine@mastodon.world
2025-02-22

Your reproductive data shouldn’t be a liability.

In a world where cycle tracking can be weaponized against you, a secure period tracker isn’t just a luxury - it’s a necessity.

No surveillance, no selling your health data to the highest bidder. Just safe, private, and reliable tracking.

This is the future we are building for you. ❤️

#OwnYourData #MyPeriodDataIsMine #MenstruationTracker #PrivatePeriodTracker #menstruators #FemaleHealthcare #ReproductiveHealthcare #reproductiverights #safe

2025-02-20

A woman in South Carolina has an ectopic pregnancy and doctors are refusing to operate because of abortion bans.

It’s not just her ovary being put at risk.

Ectopic pregnancies are life threatening and require immediate surgery.

These “forced birth” policies are anything but pro life. They’re killing people and in many cases taking away their fertility.

This is cruelty. It’s not about life. It’s not about babies. It’s about controlling women. The cruelty is the point.

#abortion #abortionishealthcare #uspoli #fascism #ReproductiveHealthcare #reproductiverights #roevwade #ectopic #pregnancy

2025-02-16

pillowfort.social/posts/592980

Saheli, a 'non-steroidal non-hormonal contraceptive pill'. Saheli dosage starts 1 pill per half-week for ... (?), then 1 pill weekly. Basically induce a brief, mini-menopause that stops when you stop the pills. saheliinfo.com/clinical-eviden

Then! ONE-YEAR vaginal ring Annovera. Unlike monthly-ish vaginal rings, (medicines.org.uk/emc/product/6) this thicker vaginal ring holds enough for 13 cycles with one week bleeding breaks, or 12 if you skip periods. Think "buff NuvaRing". annoverahcp.com/

Speaking of intra-uterine system / device options: the UK does several! We are no longer stuck with the larger, higher dose Mirena hIUS. mirena.co.uk/ I want the smaller, lower dose (but shorter duration) Jaydess fsrh.org/Public/Public/Documen or Kyleena. medicines.org.uk/emc/product/7

(You can fit a non-hormonal IUD copper coil as emergency contraception, within 10 days of unprotected sex. Fitting it as regular birth control anytime otherwise is also fine, when not pregnant.) patient.info/sexual-health/lon

Finally, vasectomy. New part is "I found multiple cases where doctors did their own vasectomies". This may be helpful for hesitant cis men and AMAB people to know. Vasectomies are reversible ("easily", according to a medical nerd friend, but obv different people's bodies respond to things in weird, cool ways, so everything depends). baus.org.uk/_userfiles/pages/f

I am not a doctor. Even if I were, I am not YOUR doctor. I do not have access to your medical records.
I'm just infodumping useful info to prevent unwanted pregnancies, minimise unplanned pregnancies, and mitigate risks. cks.nice.org.uk/topics/contrac

#contraception #contraceptive #sexEd #POP #progesterone #hormones #HRT #HormoneReplacementTherapy #birth #BirthControl #familyPlanning #PlannedParenthood #sex #Sexual #SexualHealth #healthcare #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #pregnancy #InternalCondoms #ExternalCondoms #Condom #ContraceptiveDiaphragm #CayaPhragm #spermicide #vaginalRing #NuvaRing #patch #injection #IUS #hormonalIUD #IUD #copperCoil #medicine #UnitedKingdom #UK #England #Scotland #Wales #NorthernIreland #GreatBritain #Britain

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle
2025-01-29

to State AGs: Time to Investigate Crisis Centers

(also known as “fake ”) are facilities that are often connected to organizations and have a strong stance. While many offer , , and information, as well as limited medical services in some cases, they do not provide such as or, in many cases, contraception. Some are licensed clinics; most are not.

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2024-11-24

@VeroniqueB99

'

(2/2)

...never heard a or doctor say, 'save the babies at the expense of the mother'
once in my entire career.
I tell owners all the time not to worry if the make it because MOM is the priority.
But half these things are no longer possible for lots of
humans in right now.
Just let that sink in.

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