#maternal healthcare

[gwydionmisha]

Rep. Lauren Underwood - Working with Kamala Harris & Improving Maternal Healthcare | The Daily Show

[townpostin]

Triplets Born at Sadar Hospital Chaibasa

Mother and newborns in good health after successful delivery A 29-year-old woman gives birth to two girls and a boy at local hospital. JAMSHEDPUR – Sadar Hospital Chaibasa celebrated the successful delivery of triplets, with both the mother and newborns reported to be in good health. Sarita Birua, aged 29, gave birth to two girls and a boy in the hospital’s maternity operation theatre. "The…

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[workersolidarity]

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MATERNITY CARE GIVEN IN TENTS OUT OF NECESSITY IN THE GAZA STRIP AS MORE THAN A MILLION PACK INTO CITY OF RAFAH

📹 With over one million displaced Palestinians now stuffed into the Rafah area, the vast majority of civilians in Gaza now live in temporary housing: in tents, schools, hospitals, and refugee camps, all of which remain under regular air, missile, drone, and sniper-fire by the Israeli occupation ground, naval and air forces.

As result, public services and healthcare, such as the maternity clinic above, have been set up in a makeshift, jury-rigged way, inside a tent in the above case.

The doctor, interviewed in the video above, discusses why he's erected this maternity clinic tent, and responds by telling the story of his wife, who had problems during her pregnancy due to being unable to receive healthcare during a previous Israeli war on Gaza. He tells how his daughter developed a respiratory illness soon after birth as a result.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[snitling]

Dropped into the United Healthcare trending tag to have a look at the memes, but actually I just got really horrified and frightened by the stories of people living in America and not having universal healthcare. God knows the NHS is not perfect but at least if I need an ambulance, I can call an ambulance

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the Daemonculaba is bog-standard pregnancy horror. All y'all flipping the fuck out over it clearly never grew up getting warned repeatedly about rapists, getting stabbed in the gut monthly post-puberty, reading stories about shitting and tearing and husband stitches and refusal to give epidurals and PPD and PPP, and it shows *flips hair, it is of course SJW blue*

No but seriously if the Daemonculaba freaks you out, start advocating for maternal health care, including abortion rights. You too can be Uriel Ventris, and you don't even need to unleash a daemon in an Iron Warriors fortress to do it.

(also if McNeill was gonna make a pregnancy horror story he should've made it about uterus-having protagonists, just saying)

Most warhammer fans are deranged

But the tumblr ones are deranged in the funniest way

Exactly this

[whenweallvote]

Make sure your voter registration is updated now at https://weall.vote/feminist — because this November, reproductive healthcare is on the ballot in as many as 11 states. From the local level all the way up to the Supreme Court, elections have consequences. Your VOTE is your VOICE.

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[odinsblog]

[thashining]

Proud of her.

[mediumgayitalian]

one thing about me imma have things to say abt wills powers

[killed-by-choice]

FACT: Banning abortion dramatically reduces the rate of abortion— and the number of women dying from abortion

Restrictive state-level abortion policies are associated with not having an abortion at all. Calculated to account for the rate of criminal/illegal abortions.

“Women who lived in a state where abortion access was low were more likely than women living in a state with greater access to use highly effective contraceptives rather than no method” Not only are abortion rates lower where abortions are illegal, but unwanted pregnancy rates too. People are more careful. (From the Guttmacher Institute, former statistics arm of Planned Parenthood.) https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2015/05/state-abortion-context-and-us-womens-contraceptive-choices-1995-2010

29% of Medicaid eligible pregnant women who would have an abortion with Medicaid coverage, instead give birth. Calculated to account for the rate of criminal/illegal abortions. https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-019-0775-5

Analysis of statewide data from the three States indicated that following restrictions on State funding of abortions, the proportion of reported pregnancies resulting in births, rather than in abortions, increased in all three States. Calculated to account for the rate of criminal/illegal abortions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1580169/pdf/pubhealthrep00193-0013.pdf

Approximately one-fourth of women who would have Medicaid-funded abortions instead give birth when this funding is unavailable … Studies have found little evidence that lack of Medicaid funding has resulted in illegal abortions. Calculated to account for the rate of criminal/illegal abortions.

We find that a 100-mile increase in distance to the nearest clinic is associated with 30.7 percent fewer abortions and 3.2 percent more births. Calculated to account for the rate of criminal/illegal abortions.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pam.22263

rate of abortion is found to be lower in states where access to providers is reduced and state policies are restrictive. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9099567/

A wait time as short as 72 hours is enough to start decreasing abortion rates. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1049386716300603

Abortion decreased after being restricted: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050978/

Michigan banned Medicaid from paying for abortion. Abortion rates dropped. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8135922/

The farther away a woman is from an abortion facility, the less likely she is to get one: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2134397?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Some restrictions were enacted in Eastern Europe in the 80s and 90s. The rates of abortion AND pregnancy rates both decreased.

Fetal development information and required waiting periods lead to less abortion:

A study in Louisiana and Maryland found that laws against abortion were effective at stopping abortions

Countries with abortion bans also have dramatically lower maternal mortality compared to other countries in the region with dangerously permissive abortion laws.

“Contrary to the notion proposing a negative impact of restrictive abortion laws on maternal health, the abortion mortality ratio did not increase after the abortion ban in Chile. Rather, it decreased over 96 percent.”

Mexican states that ban and restrict abortion have better MMR than permissive states: “Over the 10-year period, states with less permissive abortion legislation exhibited lower Maternal Mortality Rates than more permissive states.”

Poland bans all abortion except LotM and has the world’s lowest MMR (2/100000). Malta bans almost all abortions and has MMR of 6/100000

It also works in reverse. Multiple countries have seen an increase in MMR after legalizing abortion.

Guyana legalized abortion and achieved the worst MMR on the continent. (Compare that to Chile, which has constitutional protections for the unborn and an MMR that dropped by over 96% AFTER abortion was banned.)

Ethiopia legalized abortion and it made MMR worse: “Although abortion was not legalised on demand, it was legalised on broad socio-economic grounds: the Center for Reproductive Rights place it in the same category as the UK and Finland which, while not strictly allowing abortion on demand, do allow something close to that in practice.” … “Over the period of legalisation, the proportion of women with septic shock more than doubled, with the same result for organ failure. The proportion admitted to intensive care nearly tripled. Between 2008 and 2014, the percentage of women receiving post-abortion care who have severe complications increased by over 50%, from 7% to 11%. During this time, the proportion of women presenting with organ failure quadrupled, the proportion with peritonitis quintupled, and the proportion with shock nearly doubled.”

Ireland’s once-stellar MMR also increased after legalizing abortion. (Compare to Poland and Malta with almost total bans and to the UK where abortion is essentially legal in demand up to the second trimester.)

The pattern repeats in Asia. Nepal, where there is no restriction on abortion, has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates. (The lowest in the region is Sri Lanka, with a rate fourteen times lower than Nepal and very good restrictions on abortion.)

In addition, less people are being lured into abortion under the false impression that it’s “safe and legal”. If any of them die of illegal abortion, it’s because they knowingly committed a crime. There will no longer be cases like 17-year-old Roselle Owens, Sarah Dunn, Tonya Reaves and Cree Erwin-Sheppard (to name a few) who were killed by abortion because they were lied to about the risks.

[alyfoxxxen]

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. — ProPublica

[coochiequeens]

Even when American women good news there's a catch. Abortion is no longer illegal but North Dakota woman have to travel to Minnesota for abortion care and uf the chose to keep the pregnancy they have to keep in mind that 71.7% of counties in ND are maternal care deserts

Judge overturns North Dakota's abortion ban, citing 'a woman's fundamental right'

Burleigh County District Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that the state's abortion law violates North Dakota Constitution's due process protections. But the nearest abortion provider is in Minnesota.

Fernando Cervantes Jr. USA TODAY

A state judge overturned the North Dakota's near-total abortion ban on Thursday, making the procedure legal in the Republican-led state.

Burleigh County District Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that the abortion ban, which went into effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned, violates due process protections under North Dakota's state Constitution.

“The North Dakota Constitution guarantees each individual, including women, the fundamental right to make medical judgments affecting his or her bodily integrity, health and autonomy, in consultation with a chosen health care provider free from government interference," Romanick wrote in the ruling.

“Unborn human life, pre-viability, is not a sufficient justification to interfere with a woman’s fundamental right,” Romanick continued. “Criminalizing pre-viability abortions is not necessary to promote the State’s interests in women’s health and protecting unborn human life.”

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71.7% of counties in North Dakota are considered maternity deserts, where drive times to a birthing hospital are over 30 minutes or more, the highest percentage in the continental United States

By Michael Standaert / North Dakota News Coop

September 03, 2024 at 8:00 AM

Dr. Ana Tobiasz, a maternal-fetal specialist at Sanford Health in Bismarck, said she has contemplated leaving North Dakota because of the state’s abortion ban.

The near-total ban on abortions in the state went into effect in late April 2023. It prohibits all abortions except for when the health of the mother is at risk or in cases of rape or incest, but only within the first six weeks of pregnancy.

The initial language of the law was amended to allow terminations of ectopic pregnancies, where a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus and would never lead to a birth.

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[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom When you fall down, I wish I was close enough to pick you up and wave my favorite dermal regenerator over your scratched knee. There's no age limit on care. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, lollipop 4:00 PM · Feb 5, 2024

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