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Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. , the #BaffledImmigrant
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1 / I'd like to address you, Americans, about something I've experienced more than any of you: the consequences of unsafe abortions. The reason for this thread is the controversy over the #HydeAmendment

#SafeAbortions
#SafeAbortionsAreFreeAbortions

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Amen…
2 / My country, Brazil, is one of the leaders in unsafe abortions.
who.int/news-room/deta…
3 / WHO on unsafe abortions:

apps.who.int/iris/bitstream…
4 / I have previously described my experience with unsafe abortions. I knew the victims. They died like flies. Those of us who had money survived. This thread is the story of one of these girls, Adelina, who died after a backyard abortion.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1113938…
5 / The consequences of unwanted pregnancies, whether an increase in abortion rates (the more illegal the laws of the country, the more abortions it has) or severe physical and mental health damage to the child, are huge:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1128765…
6 / Again, about the consequences of unwanted pregnancies. Here, in the USA, backyard abortions are less common than in my country so women end up having these children.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1129019…
7 / With all the date curated in those threads, one conclusion is obvious: it is not enough to make abortions legal. They must be FREE. Why? Because if they are not, poor women will still be faced with the option of an unwanted pregnancy or backyard abortions.
#FreeAbortion
8 / It is hypocritical to be "okay" with women's reproductive rights, a half-assed defense of Roe V Wade and defend (or fail to fight against) the #HydeAmendment . It is *the same* as being an authoritarian #ProCumpulsoryPregnacy defender.
9 / Americans: *LEGAL* doesn't make abortion *ACCESSIBLE*. It must be *FREE*. Otherwise, don't even bother: you are sentencing poor women to the same horrible fate as the girls I saw dying in Brazil. Let his sink in.
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Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. , the #BaffledImmigrant
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1 / Although my stand is a bit more radical (in the sense that I try to “go to the roots”) and I defend the legalization of all drugs and the end of drug control, the criminalization of psychedelics is the one “control” that has *zero* scientific support.
legalizepsychedelics.com
2 / Denver and Oakland seem to be leading the trend and decriminalized psychedelics. Denver decriminalized psilocybin mushrooms. Oakland’s bill is broader, including psychedelic plants.
forbes.com/sites/lisettev…
3 / The media has been highlighting the therapeutic benefits of controlled use of psychedelics.
vice.com/en_us/article/…
esquire.com/lifestyle/heal…
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Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. , the #BaffledImmigrant
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1 / #LGBTPrideMonth
On this day, June, the 7th, in 1954, Alan Turing a gay man, committed suicide after being convicted of "gross indecency" according to the anti-gay laws then prevalent in England. If you are reading this, you owe it to Turing.
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2 / Alan Turing was an English mathematician who, together with a few other brilliant minds, fathered the field of research that gave humanity the computer, software design and artificial intelligence. Are his biographies exaggerated?
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3 / Maybe, but maybe it also misses some of Turing's great contributions (article above). The movie based on the book "Alan Turing: the Enigma" inserted fictional elements.
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Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. , the #BaffledImmigrant
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@ForeverLogical Good question, logical person. I'm away but will RT it to remind myself to ponder on this.
@ForeverLogical 1/ Ok, I tweeted that on my phone. Probably the 2nd time I did it in my life (I hate phones and never thumb type but I was looking for tornado information away from home). I think we are all realizing now that what we thought was obvious was only logical.
@ForeverLogical 2/ Let me explain what I mean:
A - an unqualified psychopath was elected POTUS by a combination of unlikely factors
B - that is an aberration and spoils the world order
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D => there will be a strong reaction contrary to that
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