Spaniel MomJul 26, 2023
LindaCollins11
19 states are requesting women's medical records to see if they have traveled to get an abortion or for any contraception or gender surgical procedure. WTF? What happened to medical privacy? When it was for covid info, records were blocked, giving the unvaccinated permission to spread disease. But your most personal info is okay because you are a woman, so therefore, property of the state you live in?
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Show threadDanaBlankenhornJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 Don't just get mad. Get even. Get active. Get those f'ers out of office.
Show threadLindaCollins11Jul 25, 2023
@DanaBlankenhorn I'm very old, and I have been fighting for women's rights all my frigging life & getting really tired of waiting for women to have equality. No longer physically capable of hitting the streets. So tired of watching Christo-Fascists take us backwards
Show threadPolly WaughJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 @DanaBlankenhorn
Same…
‘Sigh’
Show threadCatherine is not complacentJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 @DanaBlankenhorn my 89 year old mother broke down sobbing on the phone with me when Roe V Wade was overturned.
We marched, we voted, we made calls, wrote letters and knocked on doors. Shit, some of us got arrested.
What REALLY pisses me off is the purity politics voters who didn’t “like” Hillary. Hope they’re all enjoying the SCOTUS they got us.
Show threadDanaBlankenhornJul 25, 2023

@CatDragon @LindaCollins11 I keep thinking of my first neighbor here on Winter Avenue.

John O. Flint was born in 1883, and lived through nearly tne entire Jim Crow era, and beyond.

The thought that we're going back there fills me with fury.

We have to fight with the tools we have, which are adequate to the task.

Show threadLindaCollins11Jul 26, 2023
@CatDragon @DanaBlankenhorn i agree. When the tangerine Musolini was put in over Hillary, I cried for days that after all the horrible shit he did, they found away to put him in office & not prison. Then he corrupted the SCOTUS with his incompetent picks.
Show threadspeedbird9Jul 27, 2023
@DanaBlankenhorn @LindaCollins11 Hear! Hear!
Show threadPamelaJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 Republicans are going full autocratic; hope they remember what happened to the last batch? Saddeim Hussein and Khadaffi might have wanted a second chance?
Show threadmarkenerJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 terrible
Show threadCynBlogger ❌👑Jul 25, 2023

@LindaCollins11

It was explained to me last week that provisions in HIPAA allow sharing of records in the circumstances of violations of law.

BUT…the women who travel outside their state for termination have committed no crime while WITHIN their state, therefore how could their home state AG have any jurisdiction whatever? Do we have “thought police” now?

It’s no different than a person traveling to one of the 10 counties in Nevada wherein prostitution is legal. Should they be charged by their home state for an act which is illegal there?

These 19 state AGs need to get their heads out of their butts and recognize a woman is not property of the state - any state - and that the US is a constitutional Republic, not a theocracy.

#WomensRights
#BidenHarris2024
#GOTV

Show threadRhyothemisJul 25, 2023

@cynblogger @LindaCollins11

Here's the letter, listing the names & states of the AG signatories:
https://www.ag.ky.gov/Press%20Release%20Attachments/2023.06.16%20Comment%20Letter%20of%20the%20Mississippi%20Attorney%20General%20et%20al.%20(as%20filed).pdf

Interesting that Montana's AG is among them, even though "Pre-viability abortion in Montana has been protected since 1999 under the state constitution’s privacy provision.":
https://montanafreepress.org/2023/07/19/knudsen-other-republican-ags-push-for-broader-access-to-abortion-records/

Show threadNoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️‍🌈Jul 25, 2023

@LindaCollins11

‘The Handmaids Tale’ now your Reality in 19 of the Untied Stasi Staats of Amerikkka!

USSA! USSA! USSA!

Show threadKenneth John BardsleyJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11
Doctors should tell them to f off.
Show threadThreadbaneJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11
So much for HIPAA, eh? In 1860, the South decided not to follow the laws passed by Congress or be governed by the Constitution. They've done it again. Instead of going to war this time, we need to simply end all federal assistance from states that have chosen to ignore the laws of the United States. The Red states have essentially declared war. We should make it an economic war and see how well things go for all those Red states that rely on New York and California for funding.
Show threadPhil LandmeierJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 What about HIPAA and all the costly and time-consuming measures taken to protect your medical privacy? How is this even possible?
Show threadLindaCollins11Jul 26, 2023
@shuttersparks I agree, but with the Christian-Fascists, women are property & they will try everything to prevent their property from freedom
Show threadPhil LandmeierJul 26, 2023

@LindaCollins11 Yes, but if I play fast and loose with your medical records, throw them in the trash without shredding, or otherwise reveal the information, it's a federal crime and I can be prosecuted.

So where's all the high-minded intention of HIPAA? We can just ignore it?

Show threadMattJul 25, 2023

@LindaCollins11 Land Of The Free? Nope.

The US is quickly becoming a worldwide laughing stock, and this shit is no laughing matter!

Show threadAlakestJul 25, 2023

@LindaCollins11 Maybe just a little sci-fi, but try this one on:

Imagine, with all this ChatGPT/AI buzz, that a reliable source of labor emerges. One where few managers are required either. It's a source that can be flat-out purchased and installed. And, once it's going not even humans required to do the installations.

How long does the anti-choice effort persist?

Who funds that effort?

What's their motive?

Now write it that way for all the issues mentioned in that graphic.

Show threadMartin RundkvistJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 The idea of United States is looking worse and worse. This is like if Sweden were joined to Hungary.
Show threadVoronJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 privacy? But #ruleoflaw remember that damn thing? We really need to focus on #justice because the rule of law is going to bite a bunch of people in the
a$$
Screw the law if there isn’t justice, and right now there is a a lot of #law and little justice
Show threadJoy CohenJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 That has always been the plan. They don’t give a damn about the fetuses- it’s always been about white male supremacy. #patriarchy
Show threadBsCaBl Jul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 Roe wasn't about "Abortion" - it was about the right to make your own private healthcare decisions. This is only the begining.
Show threadScott KnowlesJul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 States are passing laws banning sharing medical records on reproductive healthcare across state lines and protecting both providers and women threatened by state AG's. Pro-choice states are standing with women to tell anti-abortion states, "Go fuck yourself." The fight continues. Elect democrats.
Show threadMark G.Jul 25, 2023
@LindaCollins11 That’s not freedom and it’s horrific
Show threadSaftyKumaJul 26, 2023

@LindaCollins11

Incredibly scary shit.

Unlike Covid, none of this is to prevent a highly communicable disease. This is just to terrorize and prosecute women. I can imagine in the near future, red states try to make it illegal for a woman to travel to a blue state (or travel at all) without being accompanied by a male relative.

And they will not stop at women, for cis-men who choose to ignore this. They will eventually go for you're not white or Christian, or sufficiently "conservative."

Show threadFlorida WomanJul 26, 2023
@LindaCollins11 I don't understand how it could possibly be constitutional for a state to prevent you from going to another state to do any medical procedure. We're not citizens of the state we live in.
Show threadLindaCollins11Jul 26, 2023
@Fldemocrat as a woman, our rights have never been established, so what was given may be taken away
Show threadProfoundly NerdyJul 26, 2023

@LindaCollins11 This is a consequence of "feeding the Leviathan." Left to its own, the state will assert that it has the right / need / vested interest in basically everything.

The silver lining here is that it's forcing *everyone* to think about what limits should be put in place against the government's ability to take records and attempt to make a criminal case *ex nihilo* against virtually anyone. Today it's abortion, tomorrow — unchecked — it WILL be something else.

Show threadMilky_WayJul 26, 2023
@LindaCollins11 that is just bullshit. I hope things go well for those ladies.
Show threadThe DoctorJul 26, 2023
@LindaCollins11 Which states?
Show threadLindaCollins11Jul 26, 2023
@drwho right off the top of my head Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, & I believe Iowa fo get them all you can Google
Show threadSimon ZerafaJul 26, 2023

@LindaCollins11

Surely that has to be unconditional? 🫤

Show threadKarl AuerbachJul 26, 2023

@LindaCollins11 Well there is the old trick (often practiced by government bodies that don't like to hand over FOIA records and law firms that don't like discovery requests):

The trick is to make an analog copy of the documents - in other words a bit-mapped image. That requires the recipient to do an OCR scan before they can do a search.