Misogyny In Women’s Health Care Is Rampant — And We’ve Had Enough
” during childbirth for a second? It’s something that I heard about as a teen and it seriously haunts me to this day. It was a practice common from the early 1900’s until the 50s and 60s. Basically, most obstetricians were men at that time, and because they had no idea how to deal with a woman giving birth, they completely knocked the woman out with a cocktail of morphine and scopolamine so that they could take over the delivery of the baby for her.
If this doesn’t sound like a horror movie, I don’t know what does. And while the practice was abandoned by the 1970s, that really wasn’t that long ago, when you think about it. You have to wonder how that kind of violent misogyny still informs childbirth in America today. Spoiler alert: it does.Yup, there is nothing that makes my blood boil more than when unnecessary procedures are performed on women’s bodies, especially at their most vulnerable times like during and after childbirth.
Dr. Emiliano Chavira, a maternal and fetal medicine specialist at Dignity Health’s California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles tellsthat he sees this practice often. He explained that the doctors who do this are usually doing so for their own benefits. They are just more comfortable doing them—plus, they want to speed up the delivery process. Sorry, but I think my experience of childbirth is more important than what time you get home for dinner.
Nope, it’s worse than disappointing. It’s misogyny, plain and simple. Routine violence and violation of women’s bodies.
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