In the 20th century, women in the US were having multiple children past the age of 30. Now in the 21st century, it's called geriatric pregnancy? What's up with that? #Geriatricpregnancy
'the field of medicine has acknowledged that language has the power to perpetuate bias…and worked to scrub its vocabulary of…"schizophrenic" (which reduces a person to a stigmatized disease), "drug abuser" (which reduces a person to their addiction), and "sickler" (a derogatory term for someone with sickle-cell disease)… yet, doctors continue to describe women’s bodies…[with] "hostile uterus", "incompetent cervix", and "habitual aborter"' #GeriatricPregnancy#MedicalBiashttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/01/geriatric-pregnancy-old-outdated-medical-terms/672834/
Please Don’t Call My Cervix Incompetent
There’s no end to the weird ways medicine describes women’s bodies.