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Micro Managing Our Menstrual Data [1]

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Date: 2023-02-21  

Youngkin is Useless

Imagine the simple act of tracking your monthly menstrual cycle, being used as evidence in a crime. Well if Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, and his Republican cohorts, have their way, that’s exactly what they intend to do. The day before Valentine’s Day, Virginia AG, Jason Miyares (a father to 3 daughters, I might add), made his intentions known to the House legislators, that SB 852, needed to be dead on arrival. In response, the Republican-led House subcommittee did just that.

The bill was intended to keep menstrual data out of the hands of law enforcement, protecting privacy rights of the app users, and ensuring that data could not be subpoenaed for criminal reasons, So let’s ask ourselves, WHY, why would they want access to this data for criminal prosecution? The clear answer is they believe they will win the Republican majority, in the General Assembly, this November’s elections, and they will waste NO time enacting abortion bans on the uteruses of Virginia.

Now, Governor Youngkin will have you believe you have no reason to worry, saying how he would never criminally charge the pregnant individual, but he doesn’t need too. See, he knows if he can use your data to go after your healthcare provider instead, the healthcare provider will STOP providing for YOU, the patient. This is a systematic attack and they’re playing the long game, to not only remove our privacy rights, but inevitable our bodily autonomy. We can’t let them regain a majority this November, or come 2024, we will no longer be a sanctuary state of the south for reproductive rights!

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