Obstetrics harms: Around the world – from Ukraine to Sudan to Gaza – violence experienced by pregnant civilians, women giving birth, nursing women, and women struggling to survive in the period after childbirth remains entirely at the sidelines of global political conversations.
#StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation:
“Corporations and states typically concentrate power among men during project negotiations, limiting women’s autonomy and normalizing their oppression.” When women then speak out against environmentally destructive projects or attempt to defend their communities from them, such action “defies gender expectations of docility (lack of retaliation) and sacrifice (absorption of extractive consequences).”
2/5ths of the country wants to act like #GenocideJoe in #Gaza: providers say performing life-saving abortions in cases like these will now mean risking arrest.
It’s not just Idaho arguing that state lawmakers, rather than doctors, should be allowed to decide what kind of emergency medical care women should be allowed to receive. Attorneys general from 20 additional states — including Texas, which is leading a separate crusade against EMTALA #StopKillingAndDisapearingDoctors#HowTheLawFailsWomen
#ReformTheMedia: Homicide is the leading cause of death of people who are pregnant or have given birth within a year in the US, surpassing dangerous complications such as eclampsia and hemorrhage 55 percent of victims were Black