I really believe that men hate women most when we are pregnant. On a micro-level pregnancy is a key time for the beginning and escalation of domestic violence. On a larger level, obstetrics is the least evidence based area of medicine, women are economically penalised for pregnancy and birth and women are blamed if we can't struggle through all this to achieve some narrow definition of what's deemed to be best for the baby in their particular time and culture. People would rather criminalise addicts who become and stay pregnant than provide treatment programs suitable for pregnant women.
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Date: 2009-06-04 10:05 am (UTC)I really believe that men hate women most when we are pregnant. On a micro-level pregnancy is a key time for the beginning and escalation of domestic violence. On a larger level, obstetrics is the least evidence based area of medicine, women are economically penalised for pregnancy and birth and women are blamed if we can't struggle through all this to achieve some narrow definition of what's deemed to be best for the baby in their particular time and culture. People would rather criminalise addicts who become and stay pregnant than provide treatment programs suitable for pregnant women.