A Nebraska teenager and her mother are being criminally charged over the teen’s abortion, after Facebook provided law enforcement with her private messages. The fall of Roe not only brings back repressive laws around abortion, it takes on a whole new dimension when there’s surveillance technology far beyond what was available. pre-Roe. This petition to Mark Zuckerberg states:
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, you stated that the company’s encryption would protect people from “bad behavior or over-broad requests for information.” But by continuing to collect and store this data — and by neglecting to have encryption turned on by default — you are putting users at risk.
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Protect your users. Private messages should be private.
Some are pushing to #DeleteFacebook.
As always, this diary is a group effort. Thanks to mettle fatigue, elenacarlena, Angmar, SandraLLAP, and the WOW crew for links and discussion.
Violence:
Women’s Prisons Are Filled With Domestic Violence Survivors. A New Type of Law Could Help Them Get Out.
For the past two and a half decades, Wilkens has been in prison for killing her ex-fiance, the wealthy son of a car dealership owner in Tulsa. But in her view, the crime was not so simple. Terry Carlton had repeatedly abused her during their relationship, according to court records. In 1998, when she was 28, she shot him eight times one night after he allegedly held a gun to her head, raped her, and then handcuffed her in his house. She says she pulled the trigger in self-defense.
Despite extensive evidence of her injuries—including a medical exam that documented vaginal abrasions and tears—the prosecutor claimed she was “cry[ing] rape,” and the jury convicted her of first-degree murder. A judge sentenced her to life in prison at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, separating her from her son, then just 8 years old.
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In June, two attorneys in the state, Colleen McCarty and Leslie Briggs, launched the podcast Panic Button to spread the word about Wilkens’ case. Now they’re lobbying Oklahoma lawmakers to draft and pass a bill that would let courts resentence certain survivors of abuse—specifically, ones whose crimes were related to the domestic violence they experienced.
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Oklahoma incarcerates more women than almost any other state—and many of them were previously abused. As Wilkens tells me, “I am just one of many.”
SacramentoBee Placer and Amador County District Attorneys question the early prison release of a violent multi-felon recidivist now accused of murder and burglary in the death of a low-income elderly woman found dismembered “beyond recognition” last month in her North Highlands home.
Assoc'dPress [via ReligionNews email] Seven years of child sexual abuse: how the LDS Church let it happen.
ABC: 'I wanted to take off my skin': Ukrainian women recount rape by Russian soldiers.
Bystander reports New Orleans cops ignored a passed-out woman being raped.
National Institute of Justice: There’s now a new way of seeing bruises on darker skinned people, an important piece of evidence in DV and other assault cases.
The Taliban violently disperses a women’s protest in Kabul.
New documents from the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard trial have been unsealed — ironically, crowdfunded by Depp fans who thought they would be getting dirt on Heard. Instead:
It has been reported that in the unsealed documents were: text messages from Depp’s then assistant about the time the actor allegedly “kicked” Heard on a flight; Depp’s legal team’s cynical attempt to implicate Heard in the death of a friend who died in a car accident; the fact that Heard willingly walked away from “tens of millions of dollars” she was entitled to in her divorce proceedings with Depp; a statement from Depp saying Heard had never caused him physical or mental injury; disturbing text messages between Depp and the musician Marilyn Manson, who has been accused of abuse by more than a dozen women, all of which he denies; claims that photos and audio tapes submitted by Depp had been digitally manipulated and edited.
Reproductive Rights and Health Care:
A record number of abortion measures are on the ballot in 2022: Ballot measures could shore up — or obliterate — abortion rights.
Sen. Warren launches probe into abortion bans' impact on women's healthcare.
Guttmacher Institute scholarly article on the impacts of COVID-19 on contraceptive and abortion services in low- and middle-income countries: :
- Short-term impacts on contraceptive care in the early days of the pandemic were fairly common … severe disruptions in access were rare and usually of short duration.
- [There were some] declines in the use of abortion services during the pandemic...
- ...We need [more and better data in order for capable entities] to assess and address gaps in service provision as they develop.
Infectious disease outbreaks can affect the demand for, provision of and access to sexual and reproductive health services. As [pandemics evolve], we must continue to build on existing research and support longer-term collection of empirical data to monitor [lost ground] and to ensure that underserved and vulnerable populations are not left behind...
Medscape A study by Spanish researchers in Argentina found female patents more often than males are subjected to unnecessary, futile, and potentially more harmful treatments and diagnostic procedures.
Medscape: Anti-choice Ob/Gyns Say Dobbs Not End of Abortion Struggle.
KHN To Retain Nurses and Other Staffers, Hospitals Are Opening Child Care Centers. Finally!
Pregnancy is particularly dangerous for diabetics, and abortion bans put them in danger.
Jezebel: a non-exhaustive list of the weirdest things politicians have said about women’s bodies.
Uncategorizable:
Former NY governor Andrew Cuomo is trying to sue AG Tish James for not paying his legal bills with taxpayers’ money. Uh, sexually harassing people does not fall under the scope of your duties as Governor, Andrew.
Notable Women:
Medscape interview For the first time in its 175-year history, a nurse will lead the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). Ann Kurth, PhD, MSN, CNM, dean of the Yale School of Nursing, will be the first nonphysician president of NYAM, which promotes innovation in public health and health inequity.
UN News: Indigenous women’s work to preserve traditional knowledge celebrated on International Day.
NPR Goats & Soda Secret schools enable Afghanistan's teen girls to skirt Taliban's education ban.
When Lady K’awiil Ajaw, warrior queen of the Maya city of Cobá, needed to show her strength against the growing power of Chichen Itza, she took decisive action, building the then-longest road in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and pav her army to counter the enemy’s influence by seizing the distant city of Yaxuná—or so a new analysis published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports suggests.