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If you have a uterus and you live in the UK, it's time to update your threat model to include police testing you for the presence of abortion meds and requesting data from period-tracking apps: tortoisemedia.com/2023/10/30/b…

British police testing women for abortion drugs - Tortoise

Forensic reports seen by Tortoise show police requesting tests for mifepristone and misoprostol
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Rob
Rob
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I mean no disrespect when I say that I clicked through doubting that your summary could be fully accurate. This is appalling.
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Mint Spies has gone Beige
Mint Spies has gone Beige
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What the - and I ask this MOST strongly - Actual. Fuck? I now have The Rage.
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Sobex
Sobex
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Wait, what the fuck, why would they do that in the UK. Abortion after the legal limit there ?
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Paul
Paul
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Someone really needs to make the UK government understand that 1984 was a cautionary tale, not aspirational.
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Steve Bellovin
Steve Bellovin
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I'd have bet that Texas and Florida would be the first to do that. This is beyond appalling.
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Erica
Erica
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I guess I wasn't aware of this it was happening in the United Kingdom as well as America. The entire world has gone authoritarian
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Mike Knell
Mike Knell
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Weird how the police keep saying they’re so busy and understaffed that they’re not going to attend mental health crisis calls any more, yet they have time for stuff like this.
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Simon :verified:
Simon :verified:
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all suspected male rapists should have their internet history searched and their bed sheets swabbed for signs of masturbation - it’s only fair…
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Canadian Crone
Canadian Crone
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it’s time for patriarchal intrusion and control over women’s lives to get booted to the curb. #EnoughIsEnough Matriarchal power must be restored. We are not the property of anyone.
#enoughisenough
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evacide
evacide
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@CStamp @Sim0n I suspect that Simon has never had to keep track of his period.
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Carolyn
Carolyn
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@Sim0n The moon? Can't think when that ever would've been helpful.
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Simon :verified:
Simon :verified:
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@CStamp or use the moon like your ancestors
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Simon :verified:
Simon :verified:
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@CStamp that’s a fair assumption but it does segue nicely into a little story about the oldest calendar found by archaeologists which is basically 28 notches in a bit of wood. Historians (mostly men) assumed it was associated with some sort of moon worship however there is another reason why some primitive humans may have wanted to track a 28 day cycle
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David Penfold :verified:
David Penfold :verified:
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"Last month, the fifth woman this year appeared in an English court charged under Section 58, compared with only three previous prosecutions in the past 160 years."

What?! The world is getting more sinister by the day.

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Nazani
Nazani
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That's a search. In the US there is supposed to be evidence of a crime presented to a judge in order to request a search. Let's hope we can hold on to that.
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Acetopheles
Acetopheles
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can see why other more important crimes are running rampant when police are investigating women who miscarriage...

What a fucking waste of police resources.
We have burglaries, theft, assault and hate crimes at a high but police claiming their hands are tied with a lack of funding yet here we are.

Disgusting.

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sour
sour
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am wait until actually get period
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TheBuell
TheBuell
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they're fascists. Imported from the shitty US Repugnants. Vote the Tories out.
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Linda
Linda
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what a load of crap. For starters there isn’t such thing a British Police Force. There isn’t a single legal jurisdiction either. Who writes this crap?
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Avitus
Avitus
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The Handmaid's Tale was apparently an instruction manual.
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ChristineSaysHi
ChristineSaysHi
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Well this is shocking. When will the law start protecting pregnant people? Also, period tracking apps - get in the bin.
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Sophia found some sleep ✔
Sophia found some sleep ✔
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Oh helpless me! I don't know, how to be a woman. If only I would have a man to tell me to just "use the moon" there would be no patriarchy, no sexism anymore.
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random thoughts
random thoughts
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Ruled by the fringe part of the Tory Party for 13 years which is more and more a full-blown fascist state.
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Coho
Coho
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This is so creepy, the war on women ramps up a notch
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seibelsays
seibelsays
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What in the rotting dystopian hellscape is this. 🤬
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felface
felface
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seeing what has happened with this in the US I would much rather leave that in the US
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Snowshadow
Snowshadow
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The Prime Minister of Canada recently stated that no American women seeking an abortion would be turned away.
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Lilly Hunter
Lilly Hunter
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This is rather sloppy reporting, as this article is only about England and Wales, (not Scotland, ergo, not the "UK"). Additionally, there is no "British police" - policing is devolved. I have not heard anything about Police Scotland doing this.
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Delphi
Delphi
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This intrusive test has been done since about 2018 when an illegal abortion is suspected.
That is after 24 weeks (with some limited exceptions). See NHS site if you need more information.nhs.uk/conditions/abortion/
Fortunately, we don't have the same situation as in some USA states.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home…

‘Deeply sinister’: Police testing women who have miscarriages for abortion drugs

Medical professionals warn it is ‘deeply sinister’ to test women for abortion drugs
Maya Oppenheim (The Independent)
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Get_Away_Car
Get_Away_Car
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that’s the thing about pernicious laws, they’re used when someone feels like using it. 5 now, but could be a rotating 20% testing across the population and that would be scary.
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