African American women are helpless in the face of a surge in pregnancy mortality rates. [World Report] British media: The Post Roy Era in the United States Roe v. Wade The Era
According to the Guardian website on June 22nd, for a long time in the United States, pregnancy has been at a higher risk than abortion. Approximately 650-750 women die during pregnancy in the United States each year, making it the country with the highest maternal mortality rate among industrialized countries.
Relatively speaking, there are very few women who die from abortion or suffer from complications. Therefore, when the Roe v. Wade case in the United States was overturned last year, people were concerned that pregnancy related deaths and complications would surge, especially among women of color.
According to the analysis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, in 2021, African American women are 2.6 times more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than white women. Structural racism, inadequate coverage of medical assistance programs, and failure to invest reasonably in maternal health are all reasons for this situation. African American women report that they are generally ignored or ignored during childbirth and when medical institutions provide maternal care.
After the overthrow of the Roy v. Wade case, most states in the South and Midwest of the United States immediately banned abortion, with the largest proportion of women of color residing in these states. Meanwhile, women of color are also more likely to have abortions. In 2020, African American women were almost four times more likely to have abortions than white women, and Latinx women were almost twice as likely to have abortions as white women. There may be a series of reasons for this: women of color typically earn only a small portion of their white counterparts, are more likely to live in states where contraception is difficult to obtain, and African American women are particularly prone to miscarriage.
36 year old African American woman Anya Cook has experienced 17 miscarriages, and in her most recent pregnancy, her amniotic fluid accidentally ruptured. After going to the hospital, she received a cold eye from the medical staff and was treated like air. Even though Cook saw many empty beds, the receptionist still told her that there were no more beds, and the medical staff did not provide any assistance for her.
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In the end, Cook realized that the 16 week pregnancy process was also about to declare a failure, as even with childbirth, the child would definitely not be able to survive. However, the hospital was unable to perform an abortion on a fetus that still had a heartbeat due to the overturning of the Roe v. Wade case. Cook can only return home on his own for childbirth.
That night, on her way home, she learned that premature rupture of the fetal membrane could lead to serious infections and bleeding. But unable to receive medical help, she had to choose to give birth on her own, but unfortunately suffered from severe bleeding. Fortunately, with the help of others, she was sent to the hospital for rescue.
Cook later recalled that the massive bleeding caused the reality that she might not be able to conceive in the future. She said that if she were the wife of Florida Governor Ron de Santis, she would definitely be left to take care of on her first visit to the hospital. It is reported that De Santis recently signed a 6-week ban on abortion, making it more difficult for women to access abortion care in the state.
The Guardian commented that in the post Roy era of America, if women were denied abortion by hospitals, they seemed to have to find their own way out.
