British Police are Using Period Tracker Data and Blood Tests To Investigate Patients Who Miscarry - eviltoast

Police in the United Kingdom are using data from period tracking apps and mass spectrometry tests conducted on blood, placenta, and urine to investigate patients who have had “unexplained” miscarriages.

Though abortion is legal in the UK, there are TRAP laws in place requiring certain conditions to be met first, paramount of which is that two separate doctors need to agree that the patient meets the criteria of the 1967 Abortion Act before any treatment can go ahead. Self-managed abortion is a criminal offense with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in the UK, as is any abortion performed after the pregnancy has progressed passed 23 weeks and six days, unless the patient is at risk of serious physical harm or death, or the fetus has severe developmental anomalies.

  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Use a paper journal and do the math yourself. There is no safe way to do it electronically anymore.

    Either tolerate the inconvenience or suffer the consequences. The choice is yours. 🤷

    • Arrakis@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Haha, sure thing kiddo.

      If periods get you this worked up, I think you may have bigger fish to fry. As for me, I finished high school decades ago which means I don’t have to deal with people like you. Toodles!