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There’s also the ongoing closure of labor and delivery wards across the country, especially in rural America. There’s been an increase in retirements and burnou
by kingkawn 2y ago
There’s also the ongoing closure of labor and delivery wards across the country, especially in rural America. There’s been an increase in retirements and burnout among experienced obgyn’s too.
But I guess none of the complicating factors make for as good of a straw man for the inane point you’d like to use these women’s suffering to prove.
- ecjhdnc2025 2y agoObesity, like Brexit, is a multiplier for the negative outcomes of complicating factors.
- kingkawn 2y agosaying that we should only think of it when someone’s trying to talk about women’s health is misogyny
- ecjhdnc2025 2y agoI do not remotely disagree, though I don't think people are saying we should "only think" of it then. But a proper healthcare system should absolutely be discussing obesity with women who intend to get pregnant at least, just as it should be discussing it with people who want to have surgery requiring general anaesthesia, with people who have mobility issues or knee/hip problems, etc.; if not more generally even outside of the context of immediate interventions. Because it makes difficult, traumatic and bad health situations worse. Giving birth is routinely the first two of those things. There is a positive-discrimination aspect here, though: yes, obesity complicates the health of older people, is raising mortality rates across the board. But society doesn't want women to die in childbirth anymore, and that makes this targeted intervention re: obesity a proper thing to do.