This is what white supremacy AND anti-Blackness looks like…so I’ll say this AGAIN…don’t tell me shit about the how “progressive” Medicare 4 All is WITHOUT sharing an accompanying strategy that addresses MEDICAL RACISM
Also further proof that the conversation around, and the overturning of, Roe v Wade has ALWAYS been about preserving white birth rates
"How Serena Williams Saved Her Own Life"
https://www.elle.com/life-love/a39586444/how-serena-williams-saved-her-own-life/
Great Post, thanks.
Knowing what some of the assumptions are, the wrong opinions, what the frequent dismissal of concerns will sound like, can save your life.
A LOT of work needs doing to overcome ignorance, willful or not.
But Serena had to save her life from medical misinformation - as she was dying of the conditions medical staff was ignorant, and arrogant, about.
Prepare protect loved ones, fight for change.
Serena moments post birth.
"In the other room, I spoke to the nurse. I told her: “I need to have a CAT scan of my lungs bilaterally, and then I need to be on my heparin drip.” She said, “I think all this medicine is making you talk crazy.” I said, “No, I’m telling you what I need: I need the scan immediately. And I need it to be done with dye.”
. . . . I persisted: “I’m telling you, this is what I need.” Finally, the nurse called my doctor...
@kevinrns @KimCrayton1 serena is a stone cold badass and 1. she shouldn’t have had to do that, 2. it is absolutely unreasonable to expect anyone to do that
you can’t foist the job of medical expertise onto the patients.
additionally, i am an expert in my own disorders & i have to assert myself as a patient… and it is usually NOT EFFECTIVE. they can choose to ignore anything and everything.
You could not be more correct, its bad medicine, unreasonable, racist.
Allies, friends and communities that care must do the work to repair bad information, bad medical instruction, repair racist sexist research
Serena saved her life.
"Being heard and appropriately treated was the difference between life or death for me;" Serena writes,
"I know those statistics would be different if the medical establishment listened to every Black woman’s experience."
@KimCrayton1 America can & must do better than that to become a civilized country any time.
"Even after controlling for age and women’s reproductive rights support, Patterson and her co-authors found that Black women’s maternal mortality rates were typically nearly double that of white women."
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2022/04/18/new-study-black-women-face-higher-maternal-mortality-rates-than-previously-determined/
#SaveLives #HumanRights #WomensRights #Racism #Sexism #Healthcare #POC #MaternalDeathRates #DrainRacism #BlackLivesMatter #HumanityMatters
By: Celeste Malone The effects of racism and sexism lead to higher maternal mortality rates among Black women in the U.S. than previously realized, according to new research from Associate Professor of Sociology and Law Evelyn J. Patterson at Vanderbilt University. Even after controlling for age and women’s reproductive rights support, Patterson and her co-authors […]
@not2b if M4A doesn’t address this out the gate then it will NOT fix any of the issues that are important to you…we have NO data to back up what you’re suggesting…once policies, procedures, processes, and norms are set, going back to “insert” them or “fix” them later is just not a thing we’ve ever successfully done
So you can have your M4A but don’t expect it to do ANYTHING but replicate existing harm if these issues aren’t apart of that legislation
All too true. Even G.O.A.T. Serena Williams almost died after childbirth & if she hadn’t been aware of her condition, she might have.
Ending discrimination in medicine and providing life-saving care to all is a priority or should be. No more deaths!
"Also further proof that the conversation around, and the overturning of, Roe v Wade has ALWAYS been about preserving white birth rates"
Yup. Good ole' white supremacists and the replacement theory.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akqdy/nebraska-steve-erdman-abortion-great-replacement-theory
They're open about it now because they feel that there won't be consequences.
Objective Previous studies have suggested that female athletes might be at higher risk of experiencing complications such as caesarean sections and perineal tears during labour than non-athletes. Our aim was to study delivery outcomes, including emergency caesarean section rates, length of the first and second stages of labour and severe perineal tears, in first-time pregnant elite athletes compared with non-athletes. Methods This is a retrospective case–control study comparing birth outcomes of primiparous female elite athletes engaging in high-impact and low-impact sports compared with non-athletic controls. The athletes had prior to birth competed at a national team level or equivalent. Participant characteristics and frequency of training for at least 3 years before a first pregnancy were collected via a self-administered questionnaire. Information on delivery outcome was retrieved from the Icelandic Medical Birth Registry. Results In total, 248 participated, 118 controls, 41 low-impact and 89 high-impact elite athletes. No significant differences were found between the groups with regard to incidence of emergency caesarean section or length of the first and second stages of labour. The incidence of third-degree to fourth-degree perineal tears was significantly higher (23.7%) among low-impact athletes than in the high-impact group (5.1%, p=0.01), but no significant differences were seen when the athletes were compared with the controls (12%; p=0.09 for low-impact and p=0.12 for high-impact athletes). Conclusion Participation in competitive sports at the elite level was not related to adverse delivery outcome, including length of labour, the need for caesarean section during delivery and severe perineal tears.
@KimCrayton1 Sorry. This was meant to support your point.
I wondered whether the often narrow hips of track-and-field athletes might explain the observed pattern, but it does not, at least not in Icelanders, the only population studied ...
@KimCrayton1 considering and rejecting alternative explanations is not a distraction, it strengthens your case
please reserve your wrath for people who disagree with you
@medecau Differences in childbirth (and much else) between lighter- and darker-skinned ordinary women is well-established.
However, these are not ordinary women; and 3/4 is not an ordinary result. (Black maternal mortality is 13/100,000 in the USA.)
So, I checked: There is no difference between extraordinarily athletic and ordinary white* women in childbirth.
*translucent, almost
Don't be this dude Too much time & resources r spent engaging w this kind of nonsense...for future reference...ur academic papers DO NOT trump the LIVED EXPERIENCES of those IMPACTED by systems, institutions & policies DESIGNED to privilege the few at the expense of the many “please reserve your wrath for people who disagree with you” Also, this is my favorite part & y I do NOT have “allies” because this === “angry Black woman”…how original 🤦🏾♀️ https://youtube.com/shorts/rEyuAYz_DH4?feature=share
@KimCrayton1 I'm not going to fight you over this, Kim, as you are right.
I'm sorry that my first remark did not make that clear.
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