The smartest people in the world have put together their list of the 10 most important “breakthrough technologies” of 2023. This appears in the Jan/Feb 2023 issue of Technology Review, published by MIT:
There’s been no change to how life-saving abortion care is delivered into a pregnant person’s body, but being able to get abortion care pills after a text message conversation is a “breakthrough technology.”
Yay! Collect more medical data and sensitive information, presumably stored in Mongo DB (or what is the latest fad? NoSQL?) in The Cloud.
Some GitHub CI will leak the master passwords.
Articles like this are why I stopped reading Tech Review. Glad to hear I can still stay away without missing anything but aggravation.
Tech Review followed the familiar path after Scientific American – from actual science to dumbed down “popular” science to left-wing propaganda to deranged wokeness to oblivion.
Dumbing down is actually the necessary step – since leftists are incapable of maintainining the rational thought long enough for any non-trivial argument to convince them – the only way to keep them reading was to oversimplify, then replace reason with emotions, and finally go full unthinking cultish. Just business – matching the content to the declining intellectual level of their readership (aka academic “intellectuals” and their assorted sycophants and wannabes).
“being able to get abortion care pills after a text message conversation is a “breakthrough technology.””
Screw that! I get my Viagra and unlimited refills after one email exchange with some doc I never meet! Now that’s “breakthrough technology”!
If it’s a “breakthrough” it’s certainly not the excusive province of the MIT Technology Review. A simple DuckDuckGo search yields lots of internet abortion pill merchants. I browsed some of them with Tor:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Purchase+Abortion+Pills&ia=web
So MIT may be assisting and providing technical support but the groundwork was already in place.
Simply amazing, so much innovation in one sentence!
Why didn’t Amazon think of that??
I believe emergency contraception is available over the counter. The chemical abortifacient Misoprostol is not for the weak of heart. From our helpful friends at Newsweek:
“Emergency contraceptives are sometimes confused with abortion pills, but the two medications are used for different purposes and work in different ways.”
https://www.newsweek.com/how-morning-after-pill-works-how-abortion-pill-works-emergency-contraceptive-1711470