🤫 Shhhh! This hearing on Veterans Access to Reproductive Healthcare is getting ready to start with Women's Health Services at @DeptVetAffairs@VeteransHealth, @PVA1946 & @CNASdc. You can also watch live on @cspan.
"The first women arrived at the first Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center at Fort Des Moines on July 20, 1942. Among them were 125 enlisted women and 440 officer candidates (40 of whom were black) ..." army.mil/women/history/
What services are considered "reproductive" healthcare?
In Vitro Fertilization / IVF
OB/GYN Visits
Comprehensive #SexEd
Emergency Contraception
Maternal & Newborn Healthcare
Domestic Violence Counseling
Gender Confirmation Surgery
STI/STD testing & treatment #BirthControl
& more
"Reproductive health is a core component of overall health." — Kayla Williams, Senior Fellow & Director, Military Veterans and Society Programs, @CNASdc
#DidYouKnow: When/if a healthcare provider doesn't cover IVF, they're inherently discriminating against individuals who can't get pregnant due to infertility and/or being LGBTQ+, single, etc. We have to reconsider narratives about "family" & what it takes to "start a family."
Reminder: When we talk about #ReproductiveHealth, that includes men. Men have reproductive health systems, too. (It basically looks like women's systems turned inside out.)
Thrilled this woman just followed up about the abortion question. FYI: With an outright ban, any veteran carrying a pregnancy that could cause death, is sexually assaulted, and/or is experiencing other issues cannot receive an abortion from VA healthcare services.
This dude just said he'd be "happy to debate" anyone regarding his views about abortion & mortality. Well, that's convenient considering the folks he'd be debating are dead. The US has horrible #MaternalMortality rates.
"[T]he U.S. maternal death rate ... is substantially higher than: Canada 🇨🇦 , United Kingdom 🇬🇧 , Japan 🇯🇵, Spain 🇪🇸 & Italy 🇮🇹 ... Moreover, the U.S. is the only high-income country with a rising level of #MaternalMortality." philanthropywomen.org/feminist-phila…
☝️ You read that right. Not only is the US #MaternalMortality rate unusually high, among our GDP peers, we're also the only country where the rate is actually RISING.
☎️ If you're a #Veteran in need of reproductive healthcare, here's your resource line: 855-VA-WOMEN.
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Good morning, loves! ❤️ Here are a few wisdom droplets for you: To state the obvious, every member of congress who aided & abetted last Wednesday's attack is a traitor to this country. #NatSec
If you've seen photos & listened to reports from congresspeople who were inside the Capitol during the attack, you know certain Republicans gave rioters pre-attack recognizance tours.
They also first-pumped to cheer attackers on as they trashed the Capitol, tweeted out the location of the fellow congress members' hiding spaces & one literally said (about the mob) "those are my people." Watch this entire video. #NatSec instagram.com/tv/CJ-OkgNAO1N…
By definition, they require imagination and expanding one's mind. For example, when you see an actor, you're picturing them as the person they're depicting — not solely thinking: "Hey, that's ____!" #StarringRole
Usually, "unwanted" is a dated term to describe an untimed, or unexpected, pregnancy. #SRHR#SexualHealth
Usually, it covers a lot of agency on the part of the person who became pregnant. In other words, someone who is able to become pregnant had a consensual sexual encounter, and that encounter resulted in an unexpected — or "unwanted" — pregnancy.
Not all photos are uploaded to Twitter using the correct specs to optimize display on Twitter. For example ...
Twitter apparently taught its algorithm to find the most interesting / relevant parts of of photos, then display a cropped version of those pics such that the most relevant part shows up as a thumbnail.
We have to stay up. Stay focused. Stay happy. Stay optimistic.
Thank you, @silverbranchus for hosting an outdoor, physically distanced #Oktoberfest event. Spirits need lifting right now, and you're providing that service. #RIPRBG ❤
Tonight I restore my soul. 🍻 Tomorrow, I get back to work.
The New York Times did this, back in 2016. Though, with Trump supporters and Duck Dynasty (vis-a-vis shows like Modern Family & Empire). nytimes.com/interactive/20…
It's the premise of #BigData. To riff off Aristotle's "give me a child until he is 7, and I will show you the man", in modern times, it's: "Give me your data, and I will show you who I believe you are, and push you in the direction of who I want you to be."
As an example, if you're getting election-related calls, texts, Facebook ads, etc., you're getting them because you're on a list. Data decided which list(s) you should be on.