Surprise, surprise, surprise:
The only “pro-life” position that is actually morally justifiable is one that recognizes the rights of people to have protected pregnancies up to and including termination of said pregnancy… at any point.
Terminating a pregnancy against the will of the pregnant person should be a crime. As should forcing a person to carry a pregnancy.
This only fails to make absolute logical sense if you simply fundamentally do not believe that pregnant people have rights or are fully human. Unfortunately, I think a lot more people really don’t believe that than realize it though. If you see the pregnant person as a container or a tool and believe that pregnant people on some fundamental level are disposable, then the current system makes sense. I think a lot of people who think they are progressive still stumble on this.
If only the industry had listened…
I saw in my AP newsletter that the Swedes have come up with this:
I’m hoping they use good guidelines in programming. Medical device manufacturers don’t have a great track record when it comes to diversity in design or testing, and I’d hate to see doctors rely on this without a human looking at every scan, too. The problem in too many for-profit healthcare models is they want to reduce the number of humans involved. If a program makes a mistake, and no human is there to catch it, then the patient has to deal with consequences. Who will be liable for that?
It’s always something isn’t it?
Tennessee?!
When I got my annual mammogram a few weeks ago here in New Jersey, there was an option for AI analysis, so it’s available in the US already. I declined. I don’t trust AI. And the humans saw something so now I have to have a biopsy. Yay.
The doctor is 99% sure it’s nothing. Probably a fat nodule or something. It’s not showing up on an ultrasound, just the mammogram. She said I could wait 6 months and then do another mammogram, but I didn’t feel like spending the next 6 months having this conversation with myself every day:
Me: It’s probably nothing
Also me: Yeah, it’s fine. Probably fat.
Me. Yep. We’re good. It’s probably nothing.
Also me: Yeah, it’s nothing.
Because I’ve had this conversation with myself every day for the past 3 weeks, and I’m getting pretty tired of it.
DM me if you want to talk. It’s the club you don’t want to join, but there are so many of us.
A bit of an aside:
I will always be grateful to the courageous breast cancer survivors for pushing and pushing until lymphedema was properly identified and then pushing more until it entered everyday medical professionals consciousness. Mine is congenital. But I hardly ever have to explain it to a nurse, doctor, or tech anymore.