Reproductive Gore , images of post birth issues, failed abortions & women suffering

[irisblue]

source-https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/06/29/abortion-childbirth-birth-maternal-gore/

more at source


snip-"...Childbirth is the bloody, violent, life-threatening procedure. It is 14 times more likely to cause death than abortion, according to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists. And seeing as millions more women have just been sentenced to go through it, we should all see what it looks like in graphic, gory detail."


snip-"...complications are considered par-for-the-course in matters of childbirth, and that women who want children (of which she was one, of which I was one) assume these risks because they know some of them are necessary to birth a baby. She also went on to say that for those who do not want children, childbirth constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment.”


snip-"The dangers of illegal abortions have been sanitized, too. Fifty years have passed since we last trod this ground. The women who died of illegal abortions (and numbers are impossible to ascertain, because these deaths often went unreported or mischaracterized) have been confined to historical statistics rather than into stark, unflinching photographs that protesters might wave on the steps of the Supreme Court."

{the photo of Gerri Santoro dead body after her self induced abortion is in this article, it is not easy to look at. https://msmagazine.com/2018/07/02/daring-remember-tell-us-story-life-roe/}


snip-"It would require insisting that women’s suffering matters and that fairly legislating against abortion necessitates everyone knowing exactly what kind of suffering mandatory childbirth will inflict. Maybe describing that suffering with images is necessary because words can’t capture it and many people simply can’t imagine it."

[irisblue]

1. 2019 story on maternal death

source-https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/05/07/women-die-each-year-pregnancy-issues-cdc-says-most-deaths-could-be-prevented/

snip-"Hundreds of women die preventable deaths of complications from pregnancy each year in the United States, even weeks or months after childbirth, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health experts say recognizing contributing factors such as racial disparities and working toward solutions are key in saving lives.

The CDC confirmed in a report released Tuesday that about 700 women die each year in the United States from cardiovascular conditions, infections, hemorrhages and other complications related to their pregnancies — up to a year after delivering their babies. In about 60 percent of the cases, the deaths could have been prevented, in part, with proper medical intervention, as well as better access to it, the researchers noted."

snip-"But the researchers not only looked at why the women died, but also who the women were — confirming racial disparities in maternal mortality across the United States. According to the report, black and American Indian/Alaska Native women were about three times as likely as white women to die of pregnancy-related issues."

snip-"Emily Petersen, co-author of the report and medical officer in the CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health, said researchers have known about the racial disparities between black and white women concerning maternal mortality. But she noted that although some disparities have been attributed to challenges with access to care, “we don’t think this explains everything.”


much more at source

[JudyM]

2. I'm assuming this was argued before the court issued its decision...

It’s vile to impose pregnancy and childbirth on women who don’t want to assume those risks, even beyond the rest of the major life issues entailed.

And they call themselves religious. Just truly despicable.

[MLAA]

3. I have no words

[Bayard]

4. Young women today

Have no clue what life was like before abortion became legal--before they were even born.

From the article:

"The current de facto image of a wire coat hanger with a line through it — referencing illicit abortions performed with household objects — is not going to be enough in this new world. It’s an aging code, and a euphemism, meaningless to those who don’t already get it. I remember spotting a decal with such a symbol stickered subversively on a dormitory wall and asking a younger relative if she knew what it meant. “It means,” she guessed, “that you’re not allowed to hang clothes there?”

[kimbutgar]

5. My aunt had an abortion in the 50's and it made her sterile

She was never able to have children and because of that lost two husbands who wanted children. I remember telling me after Roe that she was glad we didn’t have to go though what she went though when she got pregnant because of a rape and was too embarrassed to tell her family so she had a back alley abortion.