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" #Russia has effectively outlawed the public expression of #childfree views. #Women now face heavy fines for discussing a wish not to have #children, or even for candid #socialMedia accounts of difficult #birth s or #postpartum #depression...

The Health Ministry, it added, has introduced mandatory questionnaires for #teenagers; a #girl who indicates she does not currently want children is referred to a psychologist for 'corrective' #counseling"

united24media.com/world/russia…

#womensRights


Russia Revives Soviet-Era Controls to Police Women’s Bodies and Futures

Russia revives Stalin-era controls, policing women's reproductive choices to offset war losses and create a new workforce.
Roman Kohanets (UNITED24 Media)
#Russia #depression #socialmedia #children #girl #Women #birth #womensrights #postpartum #teenagers #childfree #counseling

A good piece on bodily autonomy in the Guardian. Excerpt below.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

archive.ph/yCk7B

#BodilyAutonomy #Women #Ireland #IE

The reality is that abortion has almost unprecedentedly low regret rates. Peer-reviewed studies following women in the US for between three and five years after an abortion show that the rates of women experiencing any feeling of regret remain between 1% and 5% and dissipate over time. Any distress is often linked not to the abortion itself, but to experiences of social stigma, judgment and lower social support. There's another type of care that has even lower regret rates yet is comparably politicised and legislated against: gender affirmation surgery. Politicians, legislators and anti-trans campaigners frequently use regret narratives to argue against trans rights and healthcare, even though research shows that, globally, regret after gender affirmation surgery is extremely rare - ranging between 0.03% and 1%. Repeated studies suggest that regret among trans people is often caused by social stigma. In comparison, knee replacement surgery has a dissatisfaction rate of up to 30%. Elective rhinoplasty has a general regret rate of 5%-15%, but studies from Iran show regret rates can reach 40%. Yet nobody proposes mandatory reflection periods before nose

Abortion trauma is a myth. Irish women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices

More people regret knee surgery than abortion. So why is the patriarchy still scaring us with lifelong torment, asks Irish writer Roe McDermott
Roe McDermott (The Guardian)
#Women #ireland #bodilyautonomy #ie

“As if there aren’t enough barriers to entry for #running, especially for #women”
“I had 2 options: to sit on my sofa letting the internet tell me not to bother because I’d get #runner’s face or waist or any other litany of fake terms made up for an algorithmically captive audience, or get up and #run.
I chose to #run”

#SocialMedia Told Me #Running ‘Ruins’ #Women’s Looks. It Happened to Me
The algorithmic #running content for #women is not training advice—it’s shame runnersworld.com/runners-stori…


Social Media Told Me Running ‘Ruins’ Women’s Looks. It Happened to Me—and It Wasn’t What I Expected.

A first marathon becomes a lesson in strength, fuel and self-trust as one runner pushes back against toxic beauty standards.
Sophie Clark (Runner's World)
#socialmedia #Women #running #run #runner

Emily Waldorf faced a life-threatening miscarriage.

Even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor and hired a lawyer, she couldn’t get care in the country’s “most pro-life state.”
propublica.org/article/arkansa…

#News #Arkansas #Women #Health #Law #Abortion #Medicine #USPolitics


She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
#News #health #medicine #law #abortion #Women #uspolitics #arkansas

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