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.

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    8 months ago

    So if I have ADHD and I can use a calendar just fine, my way is irrelevant because other people with ADHD can’t?

    ETA: if your ADHD is so bad that you can’t make a dot on a calendar then enlist your caretaker to do it for you.

    Final edit: JFC. The point of the edit was this: back in the day.people still had ADHD. Somehow, perhaps by some miracle, those women/menstruating persons WERE able to record their periods successfully. Smart phones and App (this will be shocking to a lot of you smooth brains in the comments) didn’t always exist. Holy shit

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      8 months ago

      Most adults with ADHD don’t have ‘caretakers’ and have to find their own strategies that meet their own needs. Yours works for you, great, other people have different needs though.

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      Someone says they can’t handle a paper calendar because of their ADHD.

      You said although you have ADHD you can use a paper calendar.

      I said most people with ADHD can’t use one.

      Your conclusion is I said your way of using a paper calendar is irrelevant?!