How’s your dystopia going? In Florida they’re making women attend court, by video from their hospital beds, without legal representation, whilst going through labour, because they don’t have rights when there’s a foetus present. Can you fucking imagine.
https://people.com/woman-in-labor-brought-into-zoom-court-refused-c-section-11941448
Just popping in to say that hospitals absolutely are more likely to intervene like this with Black and brown mothers more than anyone else.
In this case, the mother (who was a doula, so she was not uninformed) had legitimate reasons for refusing a c-section: she'd had them before, the recoveries did not go well, she was afraid of complications and not being there for her other children if anything went wrong, and literally no one was listening to her.
For no advocate to be there before and during that sham of a hearing was negligent.
Also, the hospital itself says her labor was taking a long time. I'm guessing those nurses were tired and frustrated; they started that process to get that Black woman (a doula who knew what kind of birth she wanted) to knuckle under and wrap it up.
It's another form of medical racism.
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