10 years ago, this would be an Onion headline.

This is seriously fucking weird. "how often have you had blood exit your genitals this month, you filthy female" is not a question that anyone should be asking, especially the government. These freaks couldn't even point out anatomical features on a picture of a reproductive system (male or female, but especially female). Like bitch, of you can correctly label and describe the function of all the parts of a woman's sexual anatomy, them maybe you could have some input on the conversation, but even then you still shouldn't be making other people's decisions. Go fund some bridge repairs you vile little troglodites. JFC.

Two things:

1. That guy looks like he's intimately familiar with video cameras and 1-way mirrors
2. I wonder if that one southern Senator fond of underage girls has already volunteered to lead the program?

Miller replied, "Well, he's made it very clear that he's not gonna go and weigh in and try to push various states in how they want to go and set up their particular rules and restrictions. That's gonna be up to the states."

Just in case it wasn't clear, they belive that any level of tyranny is fine as long as it's state government doing it, not the federal government.

This article is clickbait garbage. What they said is SO MUCH WORSE, but calling it "Menstrual Surveillance" is fucking stupid. While menstruation and pregnancy are obviously related, they're not the same thing.

What they actually said is that they want to have states he able to monitor pregnancies so they can know if a woman becomes pregnant, but then suddenly isn't anymore, so they can question them for an abortion, either illegally in state or out-of-state. Given they're also pushing to monitor menstrual cycles alongside pregnancies, it's full on police state shit that goes even further than what is described.

Clear. Concise. Factual. That's all you need. The right already gives you what you need to show how fucked up they are. You don't have to clickbait. It's dystopian enough on its own.

To think they found a position that is morally reprehensible from every possible angle, under all interpretations, and also involves bodily fluids, that's somehow amazing.

Jesus Christ USA, are you alright?

Seems Taliban-ish to me, which is sadly ironic.

So long as they can also set up a semen surveillance department to prosecute men for leaving their jizz between couch cushions and fleshlights.

What a fucking psycho. Dude looks like he has a freezer full of chopped-up body parts at his house.

This needs to be a political ad in every swing state

Next they will be tracking every time a girl takes a shit or walks outside. These people are sickening.

Republicans are all about the nanny state. Tracking periods, banning books, deciding who gets to have what medications/medical treatments (instead of doctors), trying to control what websites publish, etc.

Handmaid’s Tale is a great show

I wonder how they would go about all this. Medical records will have to be divulged to the State so it can track who is pregnant. They'll have to outlaw home pregnancy tests, including buying them through the mail. Otherwise women could privately find out they're pregnant and go out of state for an abortion without the State knowing. They'll also have to monitor phone and email communications for everyone, not just the pregnant person, to make sure any attempt to contact out of state health providers is intercepted. Or maybe they'll just slap an ankle bracelet on pregnant women.

They'll probably also enact laws like the abortion travel ban that Amarillo, TX has on the ballot this November:

The ordinance, first proposed by anti-abortion activists, aims to forbid the use of the city’s roads and highways to seek an abortion out of the state. It would punish anyone aiding a woman seeking the procedure, including by providing funds or transportation, and be enforced through private lawsuits, similar to a 2021 state law that prohibited abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.

I haven't opened alternet.org since probably 1999. Nice to see they're still banging around.

Good lord, and I thought they went parodic with Homelander

Aren't these weirdos just ASKING to be sent tons of used hygiene products for their perusal? I'm sure if enough ladies volunteered, that would soon quench their thirst for knowledge about your bodily functions.

Or...they would totally get off on this. Yeah, it's probably a fetish.

Giant cunts and enemies of mankind.

I cannot wait for Walz vs. Vance. Vance seems like what these people are, distilled. It'll be poetic to watch him get torn apart by a teacher

the old "states' rights to impose their own laws in other states." because that worked out so well for them in the 1800s

This chinless taint stain looks like a canned ham got dropped on the floor of a merkin factory.

menstrual surveillance departments

But why? This is information that can most certainly be gleaned from just about any data broker. Phone users cannot imagine just how much about their life is being meticulously catalogued and aggregated for ad tech networks.

The Trump team literally just needs to purchase the relevant aggregate data.

If you think I'm just being hyperbolic, btw there is software that can read your heart rate by the changes in red tonalities of your skin on camera, for example.

Women must send their used tampons to the state so we can confirm you are not pregnant. Totally not weird.