May 11, 2022
Excellent piece, as usual. But doctors don’t always agree, unbelievably. The US has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world—700-900 a year—in part due to doctors favoring the baby over the mother. The CDC estimates that 60% of these deaths are preventable. The disdain for women represented in the draft opinion is pervasive and deadly. Here’s my much angrier take, in which I cite you citing Jessica Valenti. https://medium.com/fourth-wave/pregnancy-is-dangerous-debilitating-and-costly-unpaid-work-7b4c82db11fd