A period tracking app with a deceptive agenda
The Femm App claims to be a “comprehensive women's health program” that will help users “achieve [their] health and reproductive goals” Sounds Legit, right? Not even a little. This app is a project of the Femm Foundation, and a report in The Guardian revealed that over the last three years, the Chiaroscuro Foundation, a Catholic charity with a history of donating to anti-choice campaigns, has given the developers of this app nearly $1.8 million dollars.
On its face, the Femm App seems like your standard ovulation/period tracker that will give you medically accurate information. It even claims right on their website that “FEMM Family Planning provides instruction for achieving and avoiding pregnancy.” Huh. In the “avoiding pregnancy” department, that’s solid nope. If you poke around the app’s “Get Help” section, there is very little information about “avoiding pregnancy.” In fact, the only pregnancy prevention method even mentioned is to “avoid genital contact during your fertile window.” That’s. It. Nothing about hormonal birth control or even condoms.
Any ovulation/period tracker app that WILLFULLY OMITS accurate medical info about the full range of pregnancy and STI prevention options is dangerous! And it gets worse. If you click on the “Our Blog” button in the app, it takes you to the Femm website. There you will find lists of their educators and researchers, some who have publicly expressed anti-abortion or anti hormonal birth control views. And a lead researcher for Femm isn’t even licensced to practice medicine in the United States!
AND WANNA GET REALLY MAD? Fake Clinics ARE RECEIVING YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO USE THIS APP TO “EDUCATE PEOPLE” Yep. Femm app has also been a prominent part of a fake clinic chain called, the Obria Group’s proposal for Title X funds. Obria plans to use the Femm app for its “birth control education sessions.” at 21 clinic locations in California, where they have begun receiving Title X Funds this year.
JOIN US IN EXPOSING FEMM BY GIVING THEM A BAD REVIEW!
Let’s make sure people looking for a comprehensive period tracking app know EXACTLY what the Femm app is all about:
On the App Store on your phone, search for “Femm” and up will pop “FEMM Period Ovulation Tracker” in white font with a purple logo
Download the app (don’t worry, you won’t have to make an account!)
Stay on the App store’s Femm page, scroll down to “Ratings & Reviews” and click on “Write a Review”
Give 1 star and write an accurate, straightforward review. For example:
If you want comprehensive, truthful reproductive health information, go elsewhere.
The Femm Foundation, funders of this app, was started by an anti-choice, anti-birth control dude! Find a different one!
Then delete the app from your phone! Done.
Extra credit! Scroll through all the reviews and upvote (give a “thumbs up”) to all the other accurate reviews that have been posted so far!