This weeks reading were very heartbreaking and something i have read about and spoke about with family and friends.
I will start off with the article a birth story, which starts off by telling us the story of Leconte’s birth story, like her and many Black women she shares her experiences in the hospital. Leconte is 35 weeks (about 8 months) pregnant with serious health concerns and so the doctors want to induce her labor, which is understandable, she like many other mothers had created a birth plan, in her birth plan she expresses how she did Not want a c-section. She experienced something that no other woman on this planet should go through and is also known as Obstetric racism; doctors and nurses were annoyed with her. The nurses would prick and probe her like she was not a human with feelings. The doctor that gave her too much of an epidural was annoyed and commented she should just get a c-section with her being in the room. The part that really broke my heart was when she finally gave vaginal birth, after just a few hours they switched her to another room, and she had to walk and push her own baby! This shows us how little doctors and nurses neglect the Black women in this country in the most vulnerable time of their lives. Doctors are to Black women what police officers are to Black men neglectful and careless.
Now with the 12 reasons it should be illegal for doctors not to treat trans people, this article explains how the department of health and human services want to create a new rule that consist of whether to effectively allow federally funded health providers and insurers to legally deny health care services to transgender people. Then we got to read some of the comments that trans women and American people do not want this to happen. This new rule is discriminatory and will cause major harm to the trans community. Even worse death!
Now to end my discussion with the documentary Period. End of Sentence, I was shocked to see all the women, girls, boys, and men did not know what a period was. Also, that these women and girls did not have any access to a pad. They did not even know what a pad was. What I did enjoy was to see the women having support from a man making pads for them and the women of India having access to their own pad making machine. These women were truly inspiring working with what they have so that the young girls will not quit school because of their periods, have a better future and an education.
Women are the true heroes of this world,we must protect and respect them all.
Hello Natasha, I agree with you about women being the true heroes and should be respected. This is kind of silly, but I was thinking that if all women collectively decided to not give birth anymore, humanity literally would end, so yes, women deserve plenty of respect. Women should be respected no matter their race or ethnicity
Hi Natasha, I agree that doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. I’ve heard several horror stories like that about black women being ignored and mistreated in the healthcare industry. It’s frightening that we have to put our lives in their hands. Everyone should be able to receive care. No one should be deemed less important or unworthy of care because of their identity or race. I hope the next generation of doctors and nurses do a lot better than the ones we have now.
Hi Natasha,
Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed reading your response. I 100% agree with you that the world needs to protect women more, we are heroes who deserve more recognition and praise then we rarely get. I think your statement that, “Doctors are to Black women what police officers are to Black men neglectful and careless.” is such a powerful and true statement. I didn’t think of it like that until you pointed that out. I’ve read and studied before on the fact that black woman are more then likely out of any other race to get C-sections. I always wondered why, and didn’t realize they face even medical oppression. It saddens me so much.