Virginia governor clears path for ‘extreme’ bill allowing po

[Tennesseer]

Virginia governor clears path for ‘extreme’ bill allowing police to seek menstrual histories

The Republican governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, appears to have thwarted an attempt to stop law enforcement obtaining menstrual histories of women in the state.

A bill passed in the Democratic-led state senate, and supported by half the chamber’s Republicans, would have banned search warrants for menstrual data stored in tracking apps on mobile phones or other electronic devices.

Advocates feared private health information could be used in prosecutions for abortion law violations, after a US supreme court ruling last summer overturned federal protections for the procedure.

But Youngkin, who has pushed for a 15-week abortion ban to mirror similar measures in several Republican-controlled states, essentially killed the bill through a procedural move in a subcommittee of the Republican-controlled House.

Citing unspecified future threats to the ability of law enforcement to investigate crime, Maggie Cleary, Youngkin’s deputy secretary of public safety, told the courts of justice subcommittee it was not the legislature’s responsibility to restrict the scope of search warrants.

“While the administration understands the importance of individuals’ privacy … this bill would be the very first of its kind that I’m aware of, in Virginia or anywhere, that would set a limit on what search warrants can do,” she said, according to the Washington Post.

“Currently any health information or any app information is available via search warrant. And we believe that should continue to be the case.”

The panel voted on party line to table the bill, meaning it is unlikely to resurface during the current legislative session.

Abortion rights advocates contend that with Youngkin’s efforts to push a 15-week abortion ban, with limited exceptions, failing to advance in either legislative chamber, the governor is looking for other avenues.

“The Youngkin administration’s opposition to this commonsense privacy protection measure shows his real intentions, to ban abortion and criminalise patients and medical providers,” said Tarina Keene, executive director of Repro Rising Virginia, in a statement provided to the Guardian.

Youngkin has insisted that any abortion restrictions would target doctors, not women who have the procedure.

The administration has also attempted to portray a united front among Republicans for abortion restrictions, arguing it is a consensus issue. But the defection of the nine senate Republicans over the menstrual data bill follows one of their number, Siobhan Dunnavant, speaking out last month against Youngkin’s 15-week proposal.

Dunnavant, an ob-gyn doctor, condemned the bill as “extreme”, according to the Virginia Mercury, and said she could not support it unless it contained an exception for severe fetal abnormalities to 24 weeks. Under current Virginia law, the procedure is legal for all women until the 27th week of pregnancy.

The wrangle over menstrual data tracking has parallels with a controversy in Florida, in which high school athletics officials last week backed away from a “humiliating” proposal requiring girls who wanted to play sports to answer questions about menstruation on medical forms.

Critics said the requirement aligned with a push by the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, to curtail transgender rights, an allegation denied by high school officials.

Virginia governor clears path for ‘extreme’ bill allowing police to seek menstrual histories

[dondub]

F U Glenn.

[thyme4change]

Dystopian nightmare

[happyhoix]

ok so they will go into your electronic devices to look at your apps to see if you have one that tracks your period?

I’m guessing every menstruating woman in Virginia will be deleting those promptly.

What next? Tampon detectors in the garbage trucks? Menstrual blood sniffing dogs?

Would women approaching menopause, when periods become wonky and unpredictable, be arrested if they show they didn’t have a period for three months and then suddenly had one? Would they have to somehow prove they weren’t pregnant and didn’t get an abortion or risk prison?

Ludicrous.

[NastyWoman]

Time for ALL menstruating women in Virginia to bag up their proof of menstruation and mail it - monthly- to the home and/or office of this creep. 

If he has more than one place he visits regularly spread the "proof" around. Many women, maybe all, have enough "material" every month that they can satisfy his curiosity wherever he goes THE CREEP!!!

[thyme4change]

Didn’t they use to be the party of small government?? Small governments do not track women’s periods.

[Tennesseer]

Feb 16, 2023 19:47:14 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Didn’t they use to be the party of small government?? Small governments do not track women’s periods.

Get ready.

[happyhoix]

Feb 16, 2023 19:47:14 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Didn’t they use to be the party of small government?? Small governments do not track women’s periods.

They wrap a lot of stuff up in ‘defending the children.’

Force every woman to carry to term. Don’t allow schools to talk about being gay, or talk about anything mean whites might have done to blacks, natives, browns, Asians (don’t want the little white kids to feel bad about themselves.)

Don’t care enough about the kids to try to reduce their chances of being shot at school, but hey - at least they’ll die never knowing about gays or black history, so they’ll go to heaven.

🙄

[Tennesseer]

Feb 16, 2023 20:54:02 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Feb 16, 2023 19:47:14 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Didn’t they use to be the party of small government?? Small governments do not track women’s periods.

They wrap a lot of stuff up in ‘defending the children.’

Force every woman to carry to term. Don’t allow schools to talk about being gay, or talk about anything mean whites might have done to blacks, natives, browns, Asians (don’t want the little white kids to feel bad about themselves.)

Don’t care enough about the kids to try to reduce their chances of being shot at school, but hey - at least they’ll die never knowing about gays or black history, so they’ll go to heaven.

🙄

[dondub]

Feb 16, 2023 18:15:12 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Time for ALL menstruating women in Virginia to bag up their proof of menstruation and maul it - monthly- to the home and/or office of this creep. 

If he has more than one place he visits regularly spread the "proof" around. Many women, maybe all, have enough "material" every month that they can satisfy his curiosity wherever he goes THE CREEP!!!

Dubette #1 is ready to do a mailing from Portland.😎 Why limit it to Virginians. I believe millions of women should start a nationwide mailing campaign starting tomorrow.🥳

[NastyWoman]

I would join in but I am quite a few years past my "menses due" dates

[busymom]

How about pig blood?  Just a suggestion...  

[NastyWoman]

He can provide his own pig blood. Saying it runs through his veins feels like an insult to all the pigs in this world but still a swine is a swine...

[NoNamePerson]

Feb 16, 2023 22:25:03 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

I would join in but I am quite a few years past my "menses due" dates

Me too but a raw chicken can produce a small amount of blood if left in pan long enough.  I don’t even eat chicken but would opt for one a month just to dip tampon in and ship off. Other meats would work but thinking would cost more.  Oh crap, I could just send in tampon soaked in beet juice since I have fresh pickled beets on hand pretty much year round.  I could confuse them and use yellow beet juice.  

I wonder how I ever kept up with my periods without an app?? I need an app to tell me what apps I need. 

[djAdvocate]

Feb 17, 2023 9:05:18 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

Feb 16, 2023 22:25:03 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

I would join in but I am quite a few years past my "menses due" dates

Me too but a raw chicken can produce a small amount of blood if left in pan long enough.  I don’t even eat chicken but would opt for one a month just to dip tampon in and ship off. Other meats would work but thinking would cost more.  Oh crap, I could just send in tampon soaked in beet juice since I have fresh pickled beets on hand pretty much year round.  I could confuse them and use yellow beet juice.  

I wonder how I ever kept up with my periods without an app?? I need an app to tell me what apps I need. 

the blue states should start a mail in campaign, and inundate that fucker with menstrual blood, and other bodily fluids.

edit: don beat me to it.  don't forget to use a Virginia return address.

[thyme4change]

Feb 16, 2023 20:54:02 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Feb 16, 2023 19:47:14 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

They wrap a lot of stuff up in ‘defending the children.’

🙄

Everything except food, shelter, healthcare, safety and education.