Online pregnancy literature is part of medicine. Including marginalized groups is absolutely crucial and is done or should be done in virtually all aspects of m

Online pregnancy literature is part of medicine. Including marginalized groups is absolutely crucial and is done or should be done in virtually all aspects of medicine. Your intake forms for a child shouldn't have spaces labelled "mother" and "father" because same sex couples exist. You don't ask a woman "what does your husband do" or a man "what does your wife do" because you never know if they're in a same sex relationship, and there is a significant history of medicine treating queer people poorly and you're at risk of ruining rapport with your patient before you even get a chance to develop it. We don't call people struggling with addiction "addicts" or "junkies" because they still deserve help, and we don't want them walking out the door because they're already suspicious that you're going to abuse them. Even outside of social denigrated groups, medicine is all about accommodating that 10% or 1% or 0.01%. I spent quite a bit of time on lectures about cystic fibrosis patients considering there are only about 40,000 people living with CF in all of the US, about 1/3200 live births. It costs real money to keep these people alive, and nobody seems to have a problem with that. Somehow "pregnant people" is an absolute deal breaker though, where we start talking about "is it worth to accommodate them?" All of this boils down to people saying "you can't say woman anymore." Except you absolutely can, if you're talking about a pregnant woman, just like you can say "husband and wife" if that applies to a married couple, because those are specific situations. But when medicine speaks, it has to speak to everyone, especially those most at risk.