Lucia de Berk, a former nurse in The Hague who spent six years in prison after being wrongly accused of killing hospital patients and attempting to murder others, has died after a short illness, aged 63. #miscarriages #justice #healthcare
Lucia de Berk na kort ziekbed ...
#miscarriages
“…sciences in the #UK are in a precarious state. Last month, a multiyear all-parliamentary inquiry concluded that the field was in a “graveyard spiral” that had led to #miscarriages of #justice and compounded failures in the UK’s justice system.
These issues have been especially pronounced since 2012, when the government-owned #ForensicScienceService, with a staff of 1,600 people, was shut down, leading to a rise in commercial #forensic agencies. #AcademicResearch in forensics is in an equally dire situation, as universities experience funding cuts.
The future of #DundeeUniversity’s #Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science was called into question earlier this year. Lay-offs are expected and staff staged walkouts at the centre, which has helped investigate war crimes in Kosovo and the inquiry into the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London.
The result of this decline is that the highly #SpecialisedKnowledge needed for forensic science in the UK is at risk of quietly disappearing.”
#ForensicScience / #botany / #knowledge <https://archive.md/Yv6lL> / <https://www.ft.com/content/b8211cfe-218f-4aed-ae56-c82c132af551> (paywall)
Jesus fucking christ! There are going to be more women not seeing doctors out of fear.
#miscarriages #abortion #westvirginia
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/health/miscarriage-criminal-charges
‘We thought we could change the world’: how an idealistic fight against #miscarriages of #justice turned sour
#Maine #GovernorJanetMills fires back after #Trump's demand for 'full throated apology'
by Randy Billings, Mon, March 24, 2025
Mar. 24—"Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Monday brushed off President Donald #Trump's weekend demand that she issue a 'full throated apology' for publicly challenging him during a White House event last month.
"The governor responded to Trump's social media post while at a public event in Bangor. But it was not an apology.
"Mills contested Trump's claims that he wants to protect women through his executive order barring #TransgenderAthletes from women's sports, pointing out that women in the United States and around the world will be hurt by his moves to eliminate #ForeignAid, attack #SocialSecurity and #Medicaid, and impose #tariffs that will spark #TradeWars and drive up consumer prices.
"'If the current occupant of the White House wants to protect women and girls, he should start by protecting the women and teenage girls who are suffering #miscarriages and dying because they can't get basic, life-saving health care in states across this country,' Mills said, according to the Bangor Daily News. 'If he truly cares about women and girls and people of this country, let's see the economic plan. Let's see the health care plan. Let's see the education plan.'
"Mills, who was in Bangor celebrating the purchase of a mobile home park by its residents under a new state law, added that 'if he cares about women and girls, he should talk about the little girls and boys and infants in #Sudan and other countries who are dying right now because he has cut off their supply of food and life-saving medicines.'"
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gov-mills-fires-back-trumps-224700049.html
#TrumpIsABully #USPol #MaineResists #MaineResistance #SeeYouInCourt #ProtectTransYouth #FuckTrump
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Resist #Authoritarianism #USAID #ProBirth #WomensHealthCare #GirlsHealthCare #ReproductiveRights #GovernorMills
The case of Porsha Ngumezi, a 35-year-old woman from the Houston area, raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
#Abortion #HealthScience #Healthcare #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #HoustonMethodist #HoustonMethodistSugarLand #Miscarriages #TexasAbortionBan #TexasAbortionLaw #TexasAbortions
3rd #Woman #Died Under #Texas’ #AbortionBan #law. #Doctors Avoiding #DandCs, Using Riskier #Miscarriage #Treatments.
#PorshaNgumezi’s #case questions how #fascist #abortionban #laws pressure #doctors to avoid standard #care even in clear #miscarriages.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #WomansRights #AbortionRights #Pregnancy #Miscarriages #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.propublica.org/article/porsha-ngumezi-miscarriage-death-texas-abortion-ban
#JosseliBarnica is 1 of ≥2 #Texas women who…lost their lives after doctors delayed treating #miscarriages, which fall into a gray area under the state’s strict #abortion #laws that prohibit doctors from ending the #heartbeat of a #fetus.
Neither wanted an abortion, but that didn’t matter. Though proponents insist the laws protect both the life of the fetus & the person carrying it, in practice, #doctors have hesitated to provide care under threat of #prosecution, #prison & professional ruin.
"Barnica is one of at least two #Texas women who ProPublica found lost their lives after doctors delayed treating #miscarriages, which fall into a gray area under the state’s strict #abortion laws that prohibit doctors from ending the heartbeat of a fetus."
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
“I want the men in the arena to bear w/me on this,” #MichelleObama said, “because there’s more at stake than just protecting a woman’s choice to give birth.” She described a #woman’s body as a “complicated business,” & spoke about abnormal #PapSmears, #mammograms, infections, & #miscarriages; about #menstrual problems & #menopause; & about inequities in funding for research into #WomensHealth.
#BodilyAutonomy #ReproductiveRights #healthcare #MaleSupremacy #misogyny #law #HarrisWalz2024
#SCOTUS’ landmark 2022 ruling in #Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org “open[ed] the door to govt intrusion into #pregnancy in unprecedented ways,” #PregnancyJustice says, “throwing suspicion on pregnancy loss, particularly outside #medical settings.” In just the first year after Dobbs, ≥22 women around the US faced #criminal prosecution after suffering #miscarriages, #stillbirths, or the #death of #premature babies, the org reports.
#law #ReproductiveRights #VoteBlue
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/criminalizing-pregnancy-a-record-number-of-pregnant-women-were-prosecuted-the-year-after-dobbs/
#women undergoing #asthma treatment are more likely to experience #miscarriages and require #fertility treatments to #conceive.
https://indianf.com/asthma-women-miscarriage-fertility-study/#:~:text=women%20undergoing%20asthma%20treatment%20are%20more%20likely%20to%20experience%20miscarriages%20and%20require%20fertility%20treatments%20to%20conceive.
#Outbreak of #Oropouche virus in #Brazil should be a ‘wake-up call’, say experts https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/02/outbreak-of-oropouche-virus-in-brazil-should-be-a-wake-up-call-say-experts
The deaths of two young women, #miscarriages and #birth defects in Brazil have been linked to Oropouche virus, a little-known disease spread by #midges and #mosquitoes.
The absence of consensus created a political vacuum that allowed some of the most #extreme activists to push draconian measures in state legislatures.
#Republicans were faced w/a host of questions…. Should #AbortionPills be banned? #IVF? How should states handle #miscarriages? (this month, #SCOTUS unanimously rejected a challenge to…the #abortion & #miscarriage-management drug #mifepristone. But efforts cont to restrict its use, incl a prop from #Project2025, organized by #HeritageFoundation…)
An #AntiVaccine, #COVID #conspiracy believer has gained high public office in #Kansas and is suing #Pfizer because the thinks their #vaccine causes #miscarriages (also pericarditis and mycarditis so people won't realize this is just another way of removing drugs from the market that might, potentially, allow someone to #abort a pregnancy).
The role of #selenium #infertility is one of the subjects the scientists are investigating. Their studies indicate that this #mineral #improvesbloodflow & #sperm distribution. Research also suggests that it can have a role in lowering the risks of #miscarriages. #angstromminerals
Is it still a human? Homo sapiens?
They seem to be doing this to study the early phases of #pregnancy and prevent #miscarriages, but this is really a small step away from really serious and morally questionable actions.
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#Scientists grow whole model of #human #embryo, without sperm or egg - #BBC News #TDBNews
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66715669
#Russia health #minister #Murashko says #women should give #birth as early as possible rather than pursuing careers
'He said that postponing #childbirth is a “depraved practice” that causes #infertility and #miscarriages .'
He called for 'over-the-counter sales of emergency #contraceptives to be restricted in Russia by the end of this year.'
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