I consider myself a feminist for the simple reason that I see the signature of the opposite almost every day, and every time it breaks my heart.

In no industry is female oppression more apparent than the medical. When I witness the absence of consideration taken on behalf of female specific disease, I cringe and shutter and shatter just a bit more.

Medicine for profit is the single most common and most deadly disease in this country. Our Maternal mortality rate is triple that of the U.K. and EIGHT TIMES that of Norway, The Netherlands, and Sweden, while the CDC estimates that 60% of these deaths are preventable.

Then we are faced with facts like this: “About half of US states still don’t formally review the causes of maternal death on a regular basis to find out which deaths are preventable” contrasted with quotes like “Lagrew started wondering about the suffering and death he had seen in the OR that day, and how much of it was preventable, given that so many C-sections aren’t medically necessary. (Doctors sometimes perform them to wrap up cases faster — and get reimbursed — before the end of their shift.”

C-sections are known to have raised the rate of one type of birth complication from 1 in 30,000 births in the 1950’s to a current rate of 1 in 500. This complication kills 1 in 14 mothers.

We know these things and still we act as though our sisters, wives, mothers, and daughters’ lives just don’t matter. This one issue has become 60 times more deadly than it was IN THE 1950’s!!!! Because doctors care more about a timely shift exit than the lives of their patients.

Meanwhile there is one guy, in California that gives the shits necessary to wage this war on his own, and he’s winning. As a direct result of his efforts, California’s Maternal mortality rate is 1/3 that of the rest of the U.S. proving definitively that these deaths are preventable.

We have to start caring. We have to kill medicine for profit. The new healthcare bill makes this situation WORSE, so it has to be stopped. Unless of course you actually feel that women are simply expendable reproduction machines….