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There is an executive order establishing a commission related to this btw
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/

@cykonot
From the letter of the words that order seems to be okay. As I read that (IANAL) the lobotimising of the CDC and purge of research data is/was against this order?

The order stresses transparency and open source, objective data.

...but of course I can see the "unhampered by influences" poison pill hidden in plain sight.

@vampirdaddy they purged the CDC? And the people protecting our nukes!?
Wenn das der Führer wüsste!

The appropriate context when reading that order is the worldview these people support & their behavior. No need to debase yourself by pretending they mean anything but what we know they do.

Edit: honest reading requires that you understand the definition the writer is using

@cykonot @vampirdaddy my state has a “momnibus” Senate bill being heard in Committee on the 19th (SB246)
and it’s creepy AF.

I mean on one hand it’s great because it’s going to require depression screenings periodically in new parents or people who have had a pregnancy loss, but “medical terminations” is also on the list where people would get regular mental health screenings for a year or two after, and since it has been introduced by Republicans I find it to be a little terrifying.

First of all how are they going to know who had medical terminations to know who is entitled to have their insurance company cover these screenings? I understand that if it’s done in a hospital that bills the insurance company the code that says medical termination, sure. But if I go to Planned Parenthood and pay cash I don’t want them sending my name to the state of New Hampshire so they can send the psychiatrists to my house.

Also we don’t know that they won’t change the definition of depression, they can. They’ve been changing the definition of vaccine and disease and excessive deaths for years.

Who’s to say you won’t get diagnosed with depression because you don’t want to have sex with your husband the moment the clock strikes six weeks after birth or whenever the doctor says it’s safe to have sex again? Will new Moms be diagnosed with mental illness if they aren’t keeping up with the housework and making dinner every night for their husband?

I’m Childfree by choice and I support women’s right to choose the life they want to live and this bill sounds OK but it’s kind of terrifying to me because I know the Republicans aren’t trying to do something nice for women. It’s a trap.