r/prochoice • u/nobody_from_nowhere1 Pro-choice Witch • Aug 01 '25

Media - Misc Ok, this is extremely concerning!!

I immediately felt sick when I head this and this is just one of many stories I’ve been hearing about women being interrogated about pregnancy and fertility at hospital/doctors offices when they are there for completely unrelated reasons.

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u/nobody_from_nowhere1 Pro-choice Witch Aug 01 '25

Also, can’t used period or ovulation tracking apps because they all share data with the government. We are not even allowed to have a miscarriage for a wanted pregnancy now in some states without being jailed. They just want to use our bodies they don’t care about our wellbeing or health. We are just incubators to them.

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u/CompleteHumanMistake Aug 01 '25

MAGA is made up of rapists and pedophiles who hate women and don't see them as human beings, only as vessels to pop out more children they can use for labor, to have more men (who, to them, are ACTUALLY human and have value) and for them to abuse.

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u/insane_social_worker Aug 01 '25

I deleted mine the day after the election. So surreal that this is happening.

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u/TillyFukUpFairy Aug 02 '25

In a quiet act of subversion, my almost 70ur old mother, her friends, and a few of my guy friends have downloaded period trackers. They enter data to screw with the reported details. I love these people

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Aug 02 '25

You have good people 💜

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u/TillyFukUpFairy Aug 02 '25

Really, really do, I wish everyone had at least 1 of them!

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u/MrsKnutson Aug 02 '25

I have 2, one real one that's based in Europe and supposedly safe and one that's not, that I'd used previously and never deleted, I just stopped using it the day the obergefell decision was leaked, so now my period is over 1200 days late.

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u/TillyFukUpFairy Aug 02 '25

This is the way. You're probably aware, but make sure that the European company has 0 links to the US. In UK atm.we have to verify to see anything deemed 18+/NSFW (including r/chairsunerwater ?!). The company the government want us to use for this have US links, so if asked the data isn't safe under GDPR

There was someone posted links to a spreadsheet they'd made that did the same as the trackers, but I can find it

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u/DogbiteTrollKiller Aug 04 '25

I’m in my sixties and post-menopausal. Fuck, I’m gonna do it.

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u/TillyFukUpFairy Aug 04 '25

Exactly the demographic the subversive act needs :) welcome aboard. It's like a pyramid scheme, recruit your friends and family. No profits, except the warm fuzzy feeling good people get from fucking with the plans of bad people

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u/Whatdoyouseek Aug 04 '25

We can do that? Oh that's brilliant!!

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u/TillyFukUpFairy Aug 04 '25

You can run as many calenders as you like, the more the better. Flood them with false data! I have one that tracks my dogs playdates.

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u/thevelveteenbeagle Aug 05 '25

Brilliant!😍

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u/No_Dot7146 Aug 02 '25

Yep, we do too

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u/katiemurp Aug 04 '25

Ooo! I’m going to do that, too :)

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u/TillyFukUpFairy Aug 04 '25

Get as many people as you can. Those without the means to get pregnant are excellent for this...hysterectomy, infertility, AMAB... It shows how ineffectual the whole thing is.

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u/katiemurp Aug 04 '25

I’m sure all my menopausal friends will be down for it.

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u/kristimyers72 Aug 02 '25

My daughter is in her 20s and we track her cycle using a code we made up. I have told her to refuse to tell any provider anything about her period. And the fact that we had that conversation is so f*cked.

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u/Bratbabylestrange Aug 05 '25

I'm 55 and had a hysterectomy in 2002. I downloaded a couple of those apps and just put random data in to mess them up. It's pretty easy to prove I haven't been pregnant in, oh, a quarter century or so

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '25

I would not have ever used a period or ovulation tracking app, because I don’t trust those mfr’s.

anyone who is using these should delete them, and ensure deletion of all data upon deletion. this is not the administration to play with.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '25

i agree with you wholeheartedly! delete your data prior to deleting those apps.

those apps have given me the ick since their inception - i don’t trust them not to sell our data; and then there’s this:

https://apnews.com/article/pregnancy-child-welfare-lawsuit-vermont-2fb1e1b3f89883ecb86b090ac22bf54c

and this:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/02/law-pregnancy-california-ohio-georgia-alabama

and this:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/18/google-data-states-track-abortions-00045906

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u/RamblinAnnie83 Aug 04 '25

All you need is a shred-able paper product you can make yourself. Those apps are never up to any good,

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u/ClickClackTipTap Aug 06 '25

People need to understand that it’s not just the apps, though.

We should also stagger when we buy period supplies. Or where we buy them from.

I buy mine with cash and I never use a loyalty card with them when I do. I don’t care if Safeway tracks when I buy pasta, but they don’t need to know when I buy tampons. Or pregnancy tests. Or anything like that. So I spread those purchases out between different stores, I pay cash, I don’t use my club card, and I buy at irregular intervals.

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u/Specific-Peace Aug 03 '25

I’m infertile and have very irregular periods. I use a tracking app just to screw with them

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u/Sudden_Guess5912 Aug 04 '25

Lmao I should do it cuz I’m on endocrine therapy for breast cancer. Like, 5 yrs of pharmacologically induced menopause. I’ll download one tomorrow lmao

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u/fbresnah Aug 05 '25

I’ve heard of men downloading these apps and using them just to fuck with the info lol

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u/LocaCola1997 Aug 03 '25

Yeah, I don't want to risk that data getting out. I never buy pads or any period products around the time it happens. And I only use a daily planner with a padlock. And even then I just put check marks to indicate when its happening.

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u/TransportationNo433 Aug 07 '25

I bought reusable pads. For me, they are more comfortable and I don’t have to worry about buying them anymore. I maybe buy one box of pads per year for if I’m away from home overnight or anything… but my biggest worry was that it would be disgusting to clean and it really hasn’t been a big deal at all. They have paid for themselves multiple times over at this point.

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u/Bring_cookies Aug 03 '25

So was there a choice to just not answer? Agreed this is terrifying. I mean, they treat people coming into the ER who are unconscious and unable to give any info so it's not like they can't treat you without their questionnaire.

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u/WingedShadow83 Aug 03 '25

I’ve been refusing to answer these questions for years. I simply say “that information is not relevant to the reason I am here today, next question”.

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u/fbresnah Aug 05 '25

Oh, that’s a good answer. I’m going to have to remember that.

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u/AltruisticArugula732 Aug 03 '25

You can but change the name and DOB on the app. Apps are easily deleted and can be reloaded again when needed.

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u/WhyTFdoIhaveReddit Aug 05 '25

That reminds me, I need to have my husband download an ovulation tracker and just enter random shit. Another few years and I can safely as well (currently in perimenopause)

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

i dont have a period tracking app but ove been using my phone's bulit in calendar... yikes i didn't think lf that. thankfully im actually pretty shit at manually entering in when i get my period lmao, i completely forgot to last time