Emergency Contraception Rushed to Ukraine

[Demovictory9]

Last edited Sun May 1, 2022, 08:12 PM - Edit history (1)

Aid groups are rushing thousands of doses of emergency contraception to Ukraine amid reports that large numbers of Ukrainian woman are being raped by Russian troops. The International Planned Parenthood Federation says it has sent nearly 3,000 doses of the "morning-after pill" to Ukraine and other groups are doing what they can to boost supplies, the Guardian reports. Julie Taft of IPPF says the group is also collecting supplies of medical abortion pills, which can be used during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. "The timeframe for treating victims of sexual violence is really essential," Taft says.

Joel Mitchell from aid organization Paracrew says most of the demand for emergency contraception is coming from hospitals in regions where large areas are occupied by Russian troops, the Telegraph reports. "There is a demand for emergency contraception, but very rarely from hospitals in the west. It is mostly hospitals to the east, in Kharkiv, Mariupol, those regions," Mitchell says. "As soon as we made contact with hospitals in those regions, we had standing orders for that medication." Refugees fleeing Ukraine have had trouble accessing emergency contraception in Poland and other countries with strict laws, reports the Guardian.

Earlier this month, Ukraine's ombudswoman for human rights said girls and women kept captive in a house in Bucha when Russian troops occupied the Kyiv-area town had been "systematically" raped and nine of them were pregnant. Doctors examining bodies found in mass graves in the region say they have found evidence some women were raped before they were killed, the Guardian reported earlier this week. Liz Truss, Britain's foreign minister, said Friday that the country will send a team to Ukraine to gather evidence of war crimes including rape, reports Reuters. "It’s done to subjugate women and destroy communities and we want to see it stopped," Truss said.
https://www.newser.com/story/319957/emergency-contraception-rushed-to-ukraine.html

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/28/russia-ukraine-emergency-contraception-amid-rape-reports

[Irish_Dem]

1. "Large numbers of Ukrainian women are being raped by Russian troops."

"To subjugate women and destroy communities."

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...for a very worthy cause...nt

[BigmanPigman]

3. It's a good thing this doesn't have to be approved

by a group like the GQP, who would ban the pill and joyfully arrest anyone aborting an unborn child from a rape.

The GQP and Russia have a lot more in common than they'd like to admit, 100% evil bastards.

[NullTuples]

14. If Trump had a 2nd term, they'd find a way to stop International Planned Parenthood

Likely using some underhanded pressure that's essentially blackmail. Like threatening to outlaw American Planned Parenthood altogether. And then a year later doing it anyway.

[brooklynite]

19. No, they wouldn't.

They could and probably would eliminate funding for PPUSA. They'd have no ability to influence international decisions.

[NullTuples]

27. You assume they play fair. I don't.

[brooklynite]

34. I don't assume entities outside of the US would care what Trump does.

[Bayard]

4. Horrible!

I feel so bad for these women. How will they ever get over this trauma?



WWRD: What Would Rethuglicans Do?

[secondwind]

6. They are a horror... one poor woman died from 8 straight days of being raped..

This was last month... It haunts me still...

[wnylib]

29. Maybe it's time for some Ukrainian women

to capture Russian rapists and castrate them.

[Bayard]

35. I can't get this out of my mind

The report of a 3 year old toddler raped in front of her family, and then killed.

Its like they're not even human men anymore--just penises with machine guns.

[Hekate]

18. We already know what the GOP would do, because they've been at it for decades. It's called the...

…Global Gag Order and forbids any overseas agency that accepts any US money from not only performing abortions, but from even referring a raped woman to another agency.

It’s a rancid political football that exists as a series of Executive Orders: Clinton overturned it, Dubya reinstated it his first day in office, Obama overturned it, Trump — well, you see the pattern.

It was a real problem in the last Balkan wars, because Christian and Muslim women were both raped wholesale as a tactic of war, and in both cases bearing the enemy’s child would wreck not just the woman’s life but the ethnic community’s cohesion. But could US-funded agencies help them? Noooo.

[calimary]

26. Good to remember. Republicans DON'T want to help you.

They never have wanted to help you.

They want power, domination, and superiority - and YOU forcibly "helping" THEM.

[uponit7771]

23. +1,

[North Shore Chicago]

5. Keeping an eye on this thread.

More typical than not, threads about rape, women, subjugation end up below the fold rather quickly.

Prove me wrong DUers.

[lpbk2713]

7. To hell with anyone who doesn't approve.

No matter what their reason.

[Duppers]

37. Absolutely. 👍

[littlemissmartypants]

8. Kick. ❤

[COL Mustard]

9. Russian soldiers aren't adhering to the laws of war.

They are exposing themselves and their country as barbaric. They don't deserve protection under the Geneva Conventions.

[Mr. Evil]

10. It seems that Ukraine just wanted a decent society.

Unfortunately, there are large groups besides the Russians everywhere that don't want decent societies. And now it's the Ukrainians that are bearing the brunt of this maliciousness in the extreme.

The Russian armies and all the way to the top as far as possible must be defeated. They are beyond redemption. Their soldiers and mercenaries are committing untold and uncountable atrocities and must be dealt with once and for all. There has to be a line where the rest of the world finally decides, enough!

[niyad]

11. and the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace. Would you consider cross-posting this in

Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

[dixiechiken1]

12. ...

[Hekate]

13. Thank the Goddess this horror is being addressed

[LuckyCharms]

15. I can't think of anything worse than what the Russian soldiers are doing.

But I'm sure those fuckers will come up with something.

Non-human acts performed by non-humans.

I didn't read the article, but I'm assuming these orders to rape women have to be coming down from the top. I would like to believe that mass rapes don't just spontaneously occur. Russian soldiers are probably shot on the spot by their own commanders if they don't comply with orders to inflict as much physical and emotional pain as possible.

Even if that is the case, that fact might even make the soldiers bigger pieces of shit than if they were doing this on their own accord. Because they are cowards and have no dignity. So what do you have left when your dignity is gone? I'd take a fucking bullet before I'd do something like that, and probably most men would as well.

[trof]

16. Newser...wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newser

I dunno?

[Demovictory9]

17. Original source is the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/28/russia-ukraine-emergency-contraception-amid-rape-reports

[MerryBlooms]

20. I don't think my mind is processing all

I'm seeing and hearing from Ukraine. As an American, I live in such privilege. I try. I do know the news is impacting me some nights, because I am dreaming of mixed images. Images from Ukraine, and then mixed with my usual nightmares. I am on seizure medication and ptsd med, so okay there, but soaking wet all night long and horrible leg cramps.

[mainer]

21. Republicans would call this an "opportunity" for women

To bear a rapist’s baby.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/29/ohio-rape-bill-opportunity/

[StarryNite]

28. Yes, I guess they must think God wanted them to be raped.

[wnylib]

31. Time for a Ukrainian women's brigade

to capture and castrate Russian soldiers and their mercenaries.

A bargaining tool to say they will stop the castrations when Russians stop the rapes.

[dflprincess]

22. This is the same way Russian troops behaved in occupied Germany after WWII

In Berlin it was said no female between 8 and 80 had not been raped at least once in the Russian Zone. (I'm sure there were American & British troops who also committed these crimes but it was not systematic nor done with the approval of Eisenhower and Montgomery whose policies were more to win the German civilians over by treating them civiliy.)

A unknown number of girls and women were permanently damaged or died as a result of illegal abortions. Al least this time there are ways to help the victims so it doesn't come to that.

These rapists must be hunted down and tried for the war crimes they are committing.

[keithbvadu2]

24. Putin's genius strategy acc to Trump.

Putin's genius strategy acc to Trump.

[stage left]

25. K&R

These are not men, they are animals. Ditto the old crone in the Ohio legislature, Jean Schmidt.

[bronxiteforever]

30. Kick & recommend for visibility.

I feel so sick after reading this. Good people trying to treat and heal these terrified, traumatized women.


“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

36. + 1.

Thank you. I couldn't find words.

[Scrivener7]

32. Oh, God. I can't even process this. Those monsters. They're animals.

[Lancero]

33. Yet another war crime that Germany proudly bankrolls.

Follow the money, you'll see what side some nations really support.