We have to stop saying we hate women.
Votes from 70% of white women won that man the presidency.
This country hates Black Women.
Be explicit. We hate them as leaders, as thoughtful experts on humanity, as PEOPLE.
As white women, we have to own that, we have to do better.
I’m alive to watch her grow up so I’m voting for every mother and father and child who wants a chance.
For abortion rights & sexual assault prevention & access to care and public benefits & education & therapy
Voting for #Harris & you.
#prematurity#medfrag#GOTV#Abortion
@sarah_mel52 I have had STM since season 1 as well, and I’m a member of the Sirens— many Sirens also have season tickets as well!
We’d love to have you join us— membership is free! ($30 if you want the scarf, which is totally worth it!).
So I had a baby @ 23 wks. I had to sign out AMA from a hospital who would not prioritize my life over my pregnancy. Pro-choice laws meant I was able to go to a place where I could choose to deliver my child, pre-viability. Anti-abortion stances would have killed both her and me.
This was not an abortion, but an early delivery to save a mother’s life - which the pro life movement acknowledges as necessary in rare cases. This child was born whole and held and loved as she passed away. She was not murdered and dismembered in the womb. That’s the difference.
@swoonganz As the mother of a 23 wker, all of this. She’s the best — I am amazed by her every single day.
AND what she went through, continues to go through, just to live, was torture. She’s shines so bright it’s easy to just see her smile.
But she works so hard just to be. Just to be.
Can confirm. It took 2.5 wks for Char’s eyes.
Also took her several weeks for her esophagus to grow together— it was 2 blunt ends growing together slowly.
I’d say that’s what birth at 24 wks is, but it’s so much more.
But no one wants that conversation. It’s too nuanced.
Lord give me the strength to handle the incredibly confident strangers on the Internet who continue to scream at me terrible parenting advice I never asked for, which advice directly contradicts everything our pediatrician has told us.