#tw mention of death
I have worked in women’s health for the past 6 months as a nursing student in the labor and delivery and postpartum unit of my hospital. Any overturn or change to RvsW is a devastation to women’s health.
- Abortion will continue but will be more dangerous
- This affects women of lower socioeconomic status far more as women of privilege will receive special private care or travel for abortions
- This will increase the maternal mother mortality rate AND the gap between woc, especially black women, and white women maternal mortality rates.
- This gives r@pists increased rights and power over victims because many states allow paternal rights to them and they can threaten to report her if she gets an abortion.
- Pregnancy is a risk and having cared for 2 women who lost their uteruses and one almost losing their life and went to the ICU for weeks, adoption is not a valid alternative. Every pregnancy increases risks for multiple conditions and complication so her subsequent pregnancies are more dangerous.
- Many laws in red states ALSO attack and strip protection and welfare for pregnant women and children. Food stamps haven’t increased since 2009 meaning people are getting even less money due to inflation. The income level requires to receive healthcare for children has remained the same as well meaning less children qualify for it. Many times they’ve tried to disband free school lunch, public education programs, and public libraries. Children literally aren’t being cared for in these states. They also limit insurance coverage and affordability of birth control and plan B. They ban comprehensive sexual education.
- The foster care system is full and adoption of a child placed there is unlikely. Abuse and trauma is common in the system unfortunately. They are regularly treated as subhuman and thrown out when they turn 18 with no support.
- Late term abortion is and has always been a medical indication only. These are tragedies where wanted infants are very unlikely to survive or the mother’s life is at risk. Many anti abortion laws tried to ban the safer practices for late term abortion and they depend on people to be horrified by the idea of healthy late term abortion. That’s also why they attack and limit chemical abortion. They want death as a punishment.
- Also the propaganda they put out about how abortions are done and abortion clinics selling parts or targeting certain ethnicities are lies. There are even states who require ‘abortion education’ for people getting abortions and they are often full of exaggerations and falsehoods.
@ski-jumping-is-my-aesthetics thanks for tagging me
Last song: sign of the times - harry styles (they played it at the shop lol)
Last movie: i honestly can’t remember, i don’t watch a lot of movies, it’s mostly youtube lol, but the last series i watched was heartstopper (it was so cute )
Currently reading: on the shortness of life - seneca (this is one of the penguin great ideas and it’s a short philosophy book/essay, so if you need something to remind you that life is very short and you can’t put things off and waste your time, because …. and i quote: “meanwhile death will arive and you have no choice in making yourself available for that” …i mean take this as you want it, it’s your life ♀️)
and i’m tagging @fl0werrss@blanket-cas@shiroolynn @ski-jumper-stan if you want to do it and others are also welcome to do this tag!!!
