This is exactly as cruel and pointless as it sounds.

Police in the United Kingdom are using data from period tracking apps and mass spectrometry tests conducted on blood, placenta, and urine to investigate patients who have had “unexplained” miscarriages.

Though abortion is legal in the UK, there are TRAP laws in place requiring certain conditions to be met first, paramount of which is that two separate doctors need to agree that the patient meets the criteria of the 1967 Abortion Act before any treatment can go ahead. Self-managed abortion is a criminal offense with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in the UK, as is any abortion performed after the pregnancy has progressed passed 23 weeks and six days, unless the patient is at risk of serious physical harm or death, or the fetus has severe developmental anomalies.

    • Arrakis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      64·
      1 year ago

      Still doesn’t help much if you lose it, I’m guessing you don’t menstruate? Plus, apps do the prediction for you so you don’t need to count days to figure out whether your symptoms are hormonal or physical or whether you’re late or not, etc.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        39·
        1 year ago

        So in other words you’re trying to make excuses for doing something you know you’re not supposed to be doing because you refuse to let yourself be inconvenienced in the name of doing what’s right or even basic self-interest.

        Entirely unsurprising.

        • Arrakis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          82·
          1 year ago

          Uh, why exactly am I not supposed to be tracking my period? Are you really trying to mansplain how to deal with menstruation?

          There are ways of safely recording data that don’t involve pens and paper, believe it or not.

          -Maybe if you take a second away from furiously mashing that downvote button and have a think about things, you’ll realise you’re being a little bit silly.

          • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            39·
            1 year ago

            Use a paper journal and do the math yourself. There is no safe way to do it electronically anymore.

            Either tolerate the inconvenience or suffer the consequences. The choice is yours. 🤷

            • Arrakis@lemmy.worldEnglish
              62·
              1 year ago

              Haha, sure thing kiddo.

              If periods get you this worked up, I think you may have bigger fish to fry. As for me, I finished high school decades ago which means I don’t have to deal with people like you. Toodles!