What’s amazing is that is somehow not obvious to everyone.
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Wasn’t sure quite which thread to post this on. But choosing to put this here to celebrate what i can only describe as a god damn superhuman in resilience. Her story is both harrowing and amazing, and i want to focus less on the shitty hand the current administration has handed her and more on what she’s accomplished.
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“I can’t think of any other procedures where there’s a significant chance of severe pain where we don’t recommend at least local anesthetic when we know that it can help,” Meckstroth said.
Hmmm, let me, I wonder why that might be? Seriously, my daughter wound up in the ED after getting an IUD because she was told that the pain of insertion was al there was to worry about. That is just not so, but she was not told about that and did not expect it. Essentially, she went into “labor” as her uterus tried to expel this foreign object from inside it. The fact that in fucking 2025 we are still having discussions about whether women deserve pain control for medical procedures is infuriating. I have to suspect that the fact this is about contraception plays a role in that.
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A cell block of deplorables.
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Ugh, and it stinks too. With overbearing notes of putrified testosterone and opportunistic mendacity.
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Even more so, that it’s about women in general, and specifically about making their own medical decisions.
Of course part of the process is to tell women to ignore the pain and other warning signs that something is wrong. Don’t want to have kids now? Your punishment is that you might end up with so much damage that selfish you never gets to have children when you do want them.
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She said she immediately knew what was happening when she walked into her weekly one-on-one with her supervisor; the meeting had an unexpected attendee. An HR representative rose from a seat in the corner as Ferreira entered the office. She was told she was being let go because she wasn’t fulfilling her position’s responsibilities, “effective immediately.”
“When I was about to open my mouth, she waved her hand at me, and was like, ‘No, we’re not doing that,’”
My response to that would be, “Yes, we are, or we can do it inside a courtroom. Your choice.” Because frankly, it sounds like they fired her for missing work when she had pneumonia (and because she’s a brown immigrant, but that’s a lot harder to prove), and that’s a violation of FMLA.
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I don’t know how i would react in the moment, i likely would’ve tried to fight it outside of the HR meeting and not during it. But i think ideally standing your ground in that moment is ideal because it shows you know your rights.
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Yeah, I’m a generally non-confrontational person, but . . . knowing your rights as an employee goes a long way towards discouraging this kind of bullshit. I’ve never worked for the US government, and of course the Trump government is a completely different animal, but employers often count on people not pushing back and not fighting. Now, wrongful termination suits are tough to pull off. It’s not generally difficult for an employer to, over the course of a few months, collect a bunch of data and incidents to justify termination for cause. But this one happened so soon after she returned to work from medical leave that I can’t imagine they had that data built up. And I would think telling her she was being fired because she wasn’t fulfilling her responsibilities would be a huge mistake because they’re admitting they’re firing her for cause and not just because her position was being eliminated. Of course, suing the government is always harder than suing a private employer, but still . . . I hope she at least got some kind of unemployment or other compensation, and wasn’t just left with no income at all.
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Yet another reason the right wants to disenfranchise women.
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Not that bad??
He’s a total monster. Fuck that rotten bastard.
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" Bodily autonomy has been taken away from women in various states," says Dr. Sharma, who practices in Tennessee — a state with strict abortion laws. “We’ve slashed people’s rights to make decisions,” she says. “Now we’re taking away evidence-based recommendations.”
Yup, as intended. Women have no right to make their own choices anyway, they are the property of their menfolk, right? 
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And she should know! I was wondering why no buzz was going around about how clean and fresh Tim is compared to the young Dylan. side note: Never got into the music of either one. Maybe because I’d been raised with non-electric folk, lol. But I knew who they were.
Dunno if this is relevant or not: Are she and he Boomers? Because I think the hold Greatest Gen, Boomers and GenX need their boundaries redrawn. I mean, I was born at the tail end of 1964 - I cannot imagine any “baby boom” lasting 18 years. That’s an awful lotta fucking goin’ on! (this is presuming BB starts in 1945 and ends in 1964.)
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They are both pre-Boomer; born in 1941, and the Boom didn’t begin until after WWII ended.
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