Note, I am finding these threads on the twitter feeds of ICU nurses who are now dreading the horrors that Roe falling will bring to their hospitals. This, on top of the horrors that they’ve seen and continue to see because of the pandemic. They were already exhausted and hanging by a thread.
I’m not going to be reblogging a lot of content about the leaked court opinion brief, for multiple reasons: this is not a very good news platform, you have almost certainly heard about it from sources other than me, and I don’t see the value to contributing to an atmosphere of doom.
But one angle that I do think worth signal boosting is to point out that the specter of a post-Roe world is going to pose different dangers and challenges from a pre-Roe one. The increased availability of information and easily portable medicine, combined with the state of Web 2.0 as it is, means that the issue facing a lot of people will be less a lack of access as a lack of privacy.
That is to say: not necessarily that you can’t get a certain medical procedure, but that the instant you look at the page that information is going to be available for sale to anyone from your family, your employers, to law enforcement agencies.
For these reasons, I urge people to make note of resources now, and to save them somewhere offline so that if you or someone close to you needs them in the future, they can be passed around without alerting the panopticon. Do not leave a paper trail. A paper trail could bring trouble not only to the door of the person needing help, but to anyone else who helps them along the way.
Also, STOP USING CHROME. Chrome is specifically designed to send everything you do online back to Google, who does the aforementioned selling to everyone willing to pay for it (or who gets a court order). Do not trust any Google products with your health information especially.
