Don't Write That Down: Reflections on Temperature and Ovulation Surveillance, with Birdsong!

Birdsong and the sounds of my backyard, plus:

In researching for this essay, I searched the Internet for “apple watch temperature sensor murder.” It appears that the pregnancy-forcers have yet to tag anyone with murder charges using the Apple Watch 8’s body temperature sensors as evidence of pregnancy. Yes, planning around one’s menstrual cycle with an accurate prediction from body temperature of when one will be bleeding is progress, but how desirable is this sort of progress? Does it create more freedom than it crushes? Note: it claims to have the option to turn off temperature sampling. In this situation, I am a friend of Ludd.