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Irin Carmon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
162 total appearances

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Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

But how do they go in and get that doctor's appointment if they don't have insurance?

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

So there are enormous barriers to even receiving the kind of care that might prevent the maternal mortality and morbidity rates from being so high.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

He was drummed out of his hometown because he was a very bad doctor, who stumbled upon the cases of some young women.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

They were enslaved women with obstetric fistula, meaning that they had damage from giving birth.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

And the plantation owners who enslaved them were very interested in them being able to give birth again to provide more forced labor.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

And J. Marion Sims was given the opportunity to experiment upon them with no anesthesia, with great pain for years.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

And this was the birth of modern gynecology, was the suffering of countless women, three of whose names we know, Anarka, Betsy, and Lucy.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

And they were the mothers of gynecology.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

He was part of a process of forcing out the traditional midwives who had been attending birth and also helping women end their pregnancies through what means they had at the time.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

When white male American doctors took over reproductive health care and promised that it would be cleaner, more respectable, more painless, for their own profit and control, we enshrined that hierarchy into the practice of medicine.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

Maggie's from Canada.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

And at first, she did not understand the American health care system.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

And the more she learned about it, the more horrified she was.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

She wanted to have a health care practitioner who treated her like a human being.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

And it was not happening at the hospitals that she went to.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

So they drove pretty far from their house to Brooklyn Birth Center, which has midwifery care.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

But when Maggie went into labor after about two or three days of stalled labor, it became clear that this baby was not coming out.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

And they transferred her to Woodhull Hospital.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

It was determined that Maggie needed a C-section.

Apple News Today
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America

And after the birth, her husband noticed her looking faint, not being herself.