Activity

Fetal Heart Beat Law are only part of GOP hateful atrocities against women.

BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR EDITORIAL BOARD  – OCTOBER 31, 2019

Missouri’s spreadsheet on women’s menstrual cycles is totally normal.

In (a) dystopia

https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article236834368.html

Hey Missouri, Margaret Atwood can’t keep up with you.

In the totalitarian Gilead of her novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the Commanders would appreciate the ingenuity of creating a whole spreadsheet of women’s menstrual cycles. So as to better protect them, of course.

As you’ve probably heard, the Missouri state health director, Dr. Randall Williams, testified this week at a hearing on revoking the license of the state’s last Planned Parenthood clinic that his department kept a spreadsheet on the menstrual periods of women who were patients there. This was to help the health department identify those who’d had complicated abortions. Put another way, it was to help them find something, anything, to justify closing the St. Louis facility.

. . .   And in a state where the idea of a gun database is such a threat to the privacy of gun owners that it’s on a Hyperloop to nowhere, bureaucrats are rifling through medical records — and really, is there anything more private? — looking for ammunition against Planned Parenthood. Who says government bureaucracy is impersonal?

Williams, the same official who ordered Planned Parenthood to perform unnecessary pelvic exams, testified that the spreadsheet was used to suss out the fact that four patients who had come in for abortions had left still pregnant and had to come in for a second procedure.

Missouri didn’t track Planned Parenthood patients’ periods to protect women. It was to control them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/31/missouri-didnt-track-planned-parenthood-patients-periods-protect-women-it-was-control-them/

 

————-

Read more:

Helaine Olen: Elizabeth Warren takes on Wall Street’s role in our surging medical bills
The Post’s View: The fact that Missouri only had one abortion clinic left was already a scandal
The Post’s View: Trump just won a battle with Planned Parenthood. Thousands of women will pay.
Paul Waldman: Supreme Court may gut abortion rights in the middle of the campaign
Leana Wen: My miscarriage has made my commitment to women’s health even stronger