Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has a plan to undermine the autism registry RFK Jr. keeps talking about.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has a plan to protect autism-related data from RFK Jr.’s absurd plans to create a disease registry tracking autistic people.

Pritzker plans to sign an executive order Wednesday that will prevent state agencies from obtaining or disclosing data that personally identifies people with autism, unless it’s required for medical care or legal matters, according to a copy of the order obtained by the Chicago-Sun Times.

  • Cris
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    93 days ago

    Wait, why the fuck does RFK even want one…? I guess I’m totally out of the loop on this…

    • @Kookie215@lemmy.world
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      283 days ago

      Its a fear tactic to make the number of people diagnosed with autism go down significantly in the coming years. We all know what the Nazis did with the disabled people on their list and so people are going to stop getting officially diagnosed to avoid going on that list, and then RFK can say that he reduced the autism rate.

      So in otherwaords, for genuinely evil shit.

    • I’m guessing he’s trying to link autism to vaccines to prove himself right. The man has no education in health or medicine. Idiocracy.

    • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      Same reason they are building lists of immigrants, trans people, and people on food stamps; same reason any fascist government makes lists. Not for anything good.

    • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      53 days ago

      Ostensibly, some bullshit reason I don’t care enough about to look up. In reality, because he’s a republican and wants to murder them in camps.

    • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      Another aspect is that trans people are known to be more likely to be autistic. The UK is now forcing children at gender clinics to be screened for it.

      The idea is going to be that being autistic makes you too disabled to transition.