Posted on 05/21/2019 10:31:16 AM PDT by Morgana
Pregnancy is a life-threatening condition. Women die from being pregnant. We have known that for thousands of years.
They die from hemorrhage, infection, pre-eclampsia (which can lead to fatal seizures), obstructed labor, amniotic fluid embolism, thromboembolism, a ruptured uterus, retained placenta, hydatidiform mole, choriocarcinoma and many other causes that fill the obstetrics textbooks. Modern medicine can prevent and treat many, but not all, of these conditions. Some potentially fatal problems cannot be foreseen or prevented. Pregnancy always comes with some irreducible risk of death.
There are factors that put some women at higher-than-average risk of death from pregnancy: age (to be an early adolescent is more dangerous), high blood pressure, many previous pregnancies, diabetes, obesity, a history of cesarean delivery, uterine abnormalities, a scarred cervix, a placenta previa (in which the placenta covers the cervix). A placenta previa can result in sudden, catastrophic hemorrhage that is fatal, and it can require a cesarean delivery — which carries its own risks — since a normal vaginal delivery is impossible.
The measure of risk to a woman’s life from pregnancy itself is called the “maternal mortality ratio.” That is the number of women who die of causes related to or aggravated by pregnancy per 100,000 live births.
In Alabama, the overall maternal mortality ratio in 2018 was 11.9 per 100,000. Among white women, the 2018 maternal mortality ratio was 5.6; among black women, it was 27.6, making black women in Alabama almost five times more likely to die as a result of pregnancy than white women. For the United States overall, the maternal mortality ratio was 20.7.
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He must be on crappy doctor to claims all pregnancies present such dangers.
A person is several times more likely to die from choking on food, or drowning, or in an auto accident as a passenger, driver, or even pedestrian:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/06/deaths-mortality-rates-cause-death-2011
Pregnancy is ordinarily and on average less life-threatening eating. (By “on average” I mean over the same time period rather than drawing a comparison between one pregnancy and one meal.)
Further abortion is generally MORE life-threatening for women than giving birth:
https://nifla.org/abortion-not-safer-women-childbirth/
https://aaplog.org/induced-abortion-and-maternal-mortality/
Apparently, it isn’t exactly safe for the mother, too. Contrary to what we are told.
But overlooked, and just soul killing, are men who emotionally abandon their pregnant wives and those who commit adultery while she is pregnant.
Those men need to grow a pxxx. They are as impotent as the Viagra takers.
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