Donald Trump's senior adviser Jason Miller says that under a second Trump presidency, "it's 'going to be up to the states' whether or not they set up regimes to monitor women’s pregnancies so they can prosecute them for getting out of state abortions."During a Wednesday Newsmax interview, the conser...
  • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
    121·
    2 months ago

    menstrual surveillance departments

    But why? This is information that can most certainly be gleaned from just about any data broker. Phone users cannot imagine just how much about their life is being meticulously catalogued and aggregated for ad tech networks.

    The Trump team literally just needs to purchase the relevant aggregate data.

    If you think I’m just being hyperbolic, btw there is software that can read your heart rate by the changes in red tonalities of your skin on camera, for example.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      17·
      2 months ago

      But why? This is information that can most certainly be gleaned from just about any data broker.

      Obtaining the actual information is only part of the goal. The main reason is to create a perception in society that “you’ll be found out” which goes toward the goal of removing autonomy of women and turn them back into only ‘baby making machines’.

      If you want to see how this plays out, we have an example from history, specifically what Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu did in 1967 making abortion and contraception outlawed:

      From Wikipedia:

      To counter this sharp decline in the birth rate, the Communist Party decided that the country’s population should be increased from 20 million to 30 million inhabitants. In October 1966,[1][2] Decree 770 was personally sanctioned by Ceaușescu. Abortion and contraception[citation needed] were declared illegal, except for:

      • women over 45 (later lowered to 40, then raised again to 45).
      • women who had already borne four children (later raised to five).
      • women whose life would be threatened by carrying to term, due to medical complications.
      • women who were pregnant through rape and/or incest.

      Enforcement:

      To enforce the decree, society was strictly controlled. Contraceptives were removed from sale and all women were required to be monitored monthly by a gynecologist.[3]: 6  Any detected pregnancies were followed until birth. The secret police kept a close eye on hospital procedures.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        16·
        2 months ago

        women whose life would be threatened by carrying to term, due to medical complications.

        • women who were pregnant through rape and/or incest.

        Holy fuck a Romanian dictatorship had it better than some states in the US

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        all women were required to be monitored monthly by a gynecologist.

        At least we can rest assured on this point. As if a red state would ever make health care that accessible.

        • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          At least we can rest assured on this point. As if a red state would ever make health care that accessible.

          I dunno about that. This aspect could be the only salient concept to Trumps “concepts of a healthcare plan”. Secret police monitoring women’s reproductive organs to force births sounds right on brand for conservatives that prattle on about “their white race not going to be replaced”.