This is exactly as cruel and pointless as it sounds.
  • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    583·
    2 years ago

    It’s dystopian shit like this that is beginning to make me despair of what my country will be in 10 years time.

    The passing of the online safety bill, this sort of shit, the recent legislation making it more and more difficult to protest anything, the massive expansion of facial recognition cameras everywhere. We’re on the edge of a bad period I think.

    • Baggins@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Possibly could have reworded that last sentence. Unless it was a deliberate pun?

      Can’t think what they’d want from this though. And why the police? They’ve got better things to do, this is a health matter.

    • cuchilloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Nah bro if shit hits the fan, we can use the tech against politicians & super-rich . They can’t hide, look at both sides of the coin. Just keep doing good, don’t fret on the darkest possible outcome.

  • Willard Herman@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 years ago

    “Given that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, and the vast majority of them are unexplained, this rise in investigations of and the treatment of unexplained miscarriage as suspicious is deeply concerning…”

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      13·
      2 years ago

      A lot of the time miscarriages also aren’t even known about, it just looks like an irregular cycle. So there’s a fairly good chance the pregnancy would be news to the person accused of getting an illegal abortion.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      2 years ago

      Three in four, according to Guttmacher. Half are due to failure to implant, and go by undetected.

      But part of the problem is women who miscarry often suffer from mental illness, including an unreasonable belief that somehow they are at fault. (Selection is part of the gestation process. Many, many conceptions are incompatible with life even in perfect conditions.) So law enforcement may be capitalizing on a demographic that already feels guilty.

    • Conradfart@lemmy.ca
      13·
      2 years ago

      Up to 24 weeks. Someone was recently jailed for self inducing an abortion near term. If we want to get technical, abortion is decriminalised in that it’s an offence to do it unless it’s done medically and two doctors need to sign off that it’s necessary for the physical or mental health of the patient.