Yes, and coerced or forced pregnancy is obstetric violence and obstetric racism .
Yes, and coerced or forced birth is obstetric violence and obstetric racism .
Yes, and coerced or forced childbirth in hospital settings is obstetric violence and obstetric racism .
Yes, and coerced or forced induction is obstetric violence and obstetric racism .
Yes, and coerced or forced operative vaginal birth or cesarean birth is obstetric violence and obstetric racism .
Yes, and coerced or forced pregnancy and childbirth without access to obstetric - perinatal physicians, midwives, nurses, doulas, lactation consultants, mental health professionals or entire birthing - maternity hospitals and birthing centers reproduced and exacerbates obstetric violence and obstetric racism .
Obstetric violence is a form of gender based violence, which is a manifestation of sex-based discrimination.
Obstetric racism, which sits at the intersection of obstetric violence AND medical racism, refers to the subordination of Black women and gender expansive individuals by hospital and health systems, health teams, and individual health professionals, that tracks along histories of anti-Black racism and eugenics.
Obstetric racism is a form of sex AND race based discrimination that unique impacts Black women and gender expansive individuals (as defined by Davis).
What is the role of discrimination in the manufactured maternal health crisis in the United States?
Well, check out what the CDC reported in their latest analysis.
😳😳😳😳😳Discrimination 😳😳😳😳😳
MMRCs (which stands for Maternal Mortality Review Committee) determine whether discrimination contributed to the death, and not just whether the individual was exposed to discrimination. Discrimination is defined as treating someone less or more favorably based on the group, class, or category they belong to resulting from biases, prejudices, and stereotyping. Discrimination can manifest as differences in care, clinical communication, and shared decision-making. For example, dismissing symptoms of abdominal pain described by a person with a history of substance use disorder, which led to a delay in diagnosis and care for ruptured ectopic pregnancy. This determination was added as an option for MMRCs in MMRIA in May 2020. [My two cents: the person does not need to have a history of substance use disorder]
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Committees determined that discrimination is a circumstance that contributed (Yes or Probably) to 30% of pregnancy-related deaths in 2020.
https://lnkd.in/eai9xCAr.
Discrimination leads to death!
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