Everything about this case seems wrong. Nothing is going to change the outcome. Posting her picture is unkind to any relatives or friends or partner she may or may not have. It strikes me there is an increase in the arrest and court appearances of people who have either taken medication to have a termination, or had a miscarriage, or even left a newborn for someone else to care for.
The questions that really need to be adressed are
Why was the medication taken?
Why did she go to hospital with a foetus?
Why was she charged and further distressed in such circumstances?
Why do some women hide a pregancy and abandon a newborn?
Coercive control? Cultural shame? Ignorance?
#Autonomy #ProChoice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy639j97j2o

#ICYMI: Last month, I chatted to Benjamin Mottis from ANYbotics about #robots for inspection and maintenance.

Catch up here - https://www.robottalk.org/2025/03/28/episode-115-benjamin-mottis/ or wherever you get your podcasts!

Those who claim to be protecting are so often the perpetrators…..
Those who lay down with dogs get up with fleas….
These are the groups and people that Starmer, Supreme Court justices and some media are aligning with.
These are the people Galbraith-Rowling is sponsoring.
#TransRights #ProChoice #Autonomy #TerfIsland #TERF https://mastodon.scot/@andrewducker/114391884420716738

All of this -
Transphobes and Starmer and the Supreme Court Judges really should read it and understand it.
#Transrights #Science #Autonomy
Beyond XX & XY—Human Sex And Gender Were Never A Simple Binary https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/human-sex-gender-nonbinary

Ah, the groundbreaking revelation that #LLMs could *gasp* use tools on their own. Imagine a world where a single entity does all the work, just like every other #autonomy pitch since... forever. But hey, it's topped with a fancy new name and some spiffy diagrams to make it seem revolutionary.
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/04/19/inner-loops #innovation #technews #AItools #HackerNews #ngated

Quitting On Principle

There's only one have-to.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/04/quitting-on-principle.html

#autonomy, #choice, #hermitpractice

@HampshireKarin @nini Karin - The Transport Police and the ‘Equalities’ Comissioner were out of the traps within hours [or less] talking about how they would use men to stripsearch women they assumed were trans women, and how they would demand the NHS [which has no money thanks to Streeting] implement this ruling.
I have never seen a surge in trans women stalking, harassing or doing anyone damage in a toilet or restroom; in fact the only people causing distress, trouble and alarm are those who hate the private lives of complete strangers.
Look at the statistics and look around every day on media - men, men, men assaulting, murdering, raping, upskirting, demeaning all women every day.
All this stupid ruling has done is distress and exclude trans people, enable more assaults by men, and demonstrate the gloating hate of the likes of Linehan [death threat] and Rowling/Galbraith [with bling and a cigar, like Saville], while Laurence Fox continues to call all ‘pedos’ or ‘perverts’, or ‘genital mutilators’. If you think these people have made the world safer by that ruling in the Supreme Court, you have a problem with reality.
There are many babies born every year with extra or less chromosomes - not XX or XY. Some have female genitalia but male chromosomes, others have male genitalia but female ones. The ruling is dangerous, scientifically ignorant, and will cost lives; it also makes some newborns non-persons, as their physical appearance does not match a designated simplistic male/female idea. Under this ruling they will be unable to correct this.
And don’t come at me with ‘it’s only about trans people’. It’s absolutely not. It is about everyone’s autonomy and personal choice.
#TERF #SistersNotCisters #Autonomy #TransRights #ProChoice

Quitting On Principle

There's only one have-to.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/04/quitting-on-principle.html

#autonomy, #choice, #hermitpractice

Allie ( @Tatlyn ) and I were invited to speak at the press conference announcing the Hadachek v. Oregon lawsuit seeking equal protections for children regardless of sex assigned at birth.

Here are our remarks, archived on the GALDEF YouTube page.

Intact Global News Conference: Arshad & Perry Speech (03-31-25)

https://youtu.be/Uv-Z_BEt59o

RESISTANCE IS FERTILE
grow food

They also have an online shop
https://vaginamuseumshop.co.uk
#ProChoice #TransRights #Autonomy
https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/114364188264464481

I want to just point out that if you think it is a ‘win’ or somewhat important to strip 0,2% of population of their #human #rights , #dignity and bodily #autonomy you are a #fascist - sorry, but not sorry. Human rights are not up for negotiation in my world- and that’s just common sense. #humanrights #TransRights #transgender #UK #USA

Quitting On Principle

There's only one "have-to".

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/04/quitting-on-principle.html

#autonomy, #choice, #hermitpractice, #Zen

Quitting On Principle

There's only one "have-to".

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/04/quitting-on-principle.html

#autonomy, #choice, #hermitpractice, #Zen

If you can afford it, visit their online shop and buy something to keep @vagina_museum available, alive, afloat, supportive. #ProChoice #Autonomy #TransRights https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/114352614664070991

#Maryland is the brother of #autonomy.

Yesterday, the P’urhépecha municipality of Cherán, Michoacán, celebrated 14 years of autonomy. It began on April 15, 2011, when a group of women blocked cartel-linked illegal loggers from removing trees from the community. This act sparked a mass uprising that saw the community reclaim its territory, establishing barricades, 179 permanent bonfires, a form of autonomous government rooted in P’urhépecha forms of communal organization, and expelling the cartels, police, and political parties.

If you want to know more about Cherán, might I suggest "The Bonfires of Autonomy," a piece I wrote for the anthology edited by @cbmilstein, "Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy:" https://www.akpress.org/deciding-for-ourselves.html

https://desinformemonos.org/celebra-cheran-14-anos-de-lucha-por-la-defensa-de-sus-bosques/

A call to #universities:
"Apart from #security & #privacy concerns, our alternative-less reliance on #BigTech is fundamentally at odds with public values like #freedom, #independence, #autonomy and #equality. The #digitalservices we use for research and teaching are profoundly shaping our professional practices; the incorporation of #AItools (coPilot) in basic software (MSOffice365), substantially shape our teaching & research and hence impact our professional #autonomy."
https://algosoc.org/results/calling-for-a-transformation-to-digital-autonomy