History of Feminism

Perhaps we need more public information about pregnancy and its many potential complications. Estimates are that about 20% of confirmed pregnancies end in miscarriages. Since miscarriages also occur before women know they’re pregnant, up to 40% of pregnancies may end with miscarriage.

In addition to the miscarriages are the life-threatening complications pregnant women may suffer. Here’s an excerpt from a ProPublica article.

“Leah Bahrencu’s kidneys and liver shut down.

Samantha Blackwell spent a month in a coma.

Cindel Pena suffered heart failure.

Heather Lavender lost her uterus.

Rebecca Derohanian bled into her brain.

Every year in the U.S., nearly 4 million women give birth, the vast majority without anything going amiss for themselves or their babies. But more than 135 expectant and new mothers a day — or more than 50,000 a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — endure dangerous and even life-threatening complications that often leave them wounded, weakened, traumatized, financially devastated, unable to bear more children or searching in vain for answers about what went wrong.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/severe-complications-for-women-during-childbirth-are-skyrocketing-and-could-often-be-prevented

There’s a reason the US has the highest maternal death rate among developed nations, and that reason is mostly Republican politics. Republicans pretend that every pregnancy is perfectly normal and that women just want to use abortion for birth control. Their willful ignorance is costing lives, not protecting them.