Just visited my first encampment, at Penn since I happen to be in town. Gonna do a little thread of my impressions. First, as you can see, ordinary campus life carries on around it undisturbed.
This is such a terrible tragedy and it unfortunately supports some very damning data. Black women are 3x more likely to die in childbirth than their white peers, and while economic disparities are an issue, it is public health crisis largely created by the fact Black women are often mistreated in the health care industry.
New data from California shows how bad the infant mortality rate is in the US, and the role that race and income play in the crisis.
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How close to death do patients experiencing pregnancy complications have to come before doctors in forced pregnancy states can treat them without risking criminal prosecution? What kind of barbaric question is that?
In the US, “child protection” means taking children away from struggling families, not ensuring housing, food & health care or safety from violence. It is state violence against children. We need to radically reimagine a society safe for children & how to collectively create it.
The severity of the legal, political, and personal repercussions that we will have to reckon with cannot be overstated. I am scared for my patients, my friends/family, and all of the women who will be left behind across the country.
On overturning Roe v. Wade:
Women will die. They will die of botched back alley abortions and preeclamptic complications and infections. They will leave their birthed children behind without a mother (59% of people seeking abortions have children at home)
Those who choose to keep their babies will continue to be socially and politically ridiculed for having children that they cannot afford and seeking government assistance to raise the babies that they were forced to have.