“Many felt dizzy, tired or ill, and women stopped getting their periods,” the AP reported.
Take my opinion on this with a massive grain of salt because I don't have periods, but aren't they just describing side effects from depo provera? Which are more or less the same as just having your period to begin with?
Yup, depo provera is a possibility, it's at least plausible as opposed to a drug that doesn't exist.
It is weird though that none of these women got any blood tests from their doctors, which would've immediately confirmed high levels of MPA in their blood. Of course this would've immediately killed the story because depo provera is a well known contraceptive that wears off after a few months and cannot be used to permanently sterilize someone
Like it's one thing if you want to work through the ethical problem of forcing women with multiple kids to be medicated for the sake of the greater social good (given that it's highly gendered and disproportionately punitive to the poor), but you tip your hand when you equate birth control to sterilization and genocide the way these fundamentalists do.
Plus the ominous tone is honestly almost comical. Why not just go the whole way and say, after being drugged, several of the women were even purported to crave unhealthy foods and be excessively irritatable, as if the unknown serum had certain mind-altering properties.
If you scroll down in the article I think you can even find an artist rendering of one of the victims: Victim of Communism
Take my opinion on this with a massive grain of salt because I don't have periods, but aren't they just describing side effects from depo provera? Which are more or less the same as just having your period to begin with?
Yup, depo provera is a possibility, it's at least plausible as opposed to a drug that doesn't exist.
It is weird though that none of these women got any blood tests from their doctors, which would've immediately confirmed high levels of MPA in their blood. Of course this would've immediately killed the story because depo provera is a well known contraceptive that wears off after a few months and cannot be used to permanently sterilize someone
Like it's one thing if you want to work through the ethical problem of forcing women with multiple kids to be medicated for the sake of the greater social good (given that it's highly gendered and disproportionately punitive to the poor), but you tip your hand when you equate birth control to sterilization and genocide the way these fundamentalists do.
Plus the ominous tone is honestly almost comical. Why not just go the whole way and say, after being drugged, several of the women were even purported to crave unhealthy foods and be excessively irritatable, as if the unknown serum had certain mind-altering properties.
If you scroll down in the article I think you can even find an artist rendering of one of the victims: Victim of Communism