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Anthropologist: AI, Disability, Care access

Joined May 2022
Silently removing a “like” now is worse than having “liked” it in the first place bc the “unlike” signifies that these celebrities/their publicists have done the work to understand WHY this was messed up—and yet they *still* choose silence over showing support for DV survivors.
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Hey @AmerMedicalAssn, how about officially renaming “ectopic pregnancy”— a misleading and inaccurate term. It’s not a pregnancy. Abortion laws should have ZERO baring over this. No one should suffer or die because politicians don’t understand what a fallopian tube is #abortionban
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Patients are already being denied care for this: apnews.com/article/abortion-…
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Meanwhile, the myth that this placement and configuration of cell growth is a “pregnancy” continues unchecked: blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/12/17… #ectopic #EctopicPregnancyIsNotPregnancy
I’m eagerly awaiting a moment in which I can say to someone, knowingly, “The sewage never lies.” sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/…
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(1/4) For too many US leaders, the abortion ban is simply turf for the short-term struggle for political party dominance. Again: Women AND girls (and anyone w/capacity to become pregnant) become the collateral damage along the way.
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(3/4) Harris: “I mean, it’s not right now what we are discussing. But I will say that when I think about what is happening in terms of the states, we have to also recognize, Dana, that we are 130-odd days away from an election, which is going to include Senate races, right?” :(
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(4/4) Instead of galvanizing ppl to get out and vote, this risks making many feel like there’s nothing to vote for anymore.
Overturning RvW is like putting up an electric fence around red and purple states. Conservative leaders are desperate to prevent remote working + housing crisis from rebalancing the voter population. Controlling women is a fun, devastating side effect. Zap!
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You’d have to be a real asshole to threaten to sue the Special Olympics for trying to ensure protection for immunocompromised and other elevated risk folks… Who on earth would do tha— ohhhh… got it. #ableism #floridaman nytimes.com/2022/06/03/sport…
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Vaccines are amazing. But please don’t stop doing the other common sense stuff that helps limit the spread of illness. And start focusing on making the world survivable + inclusive for people with long covid + other long-term viral health complications. washingtonpost.com/health/20…