According to a government report, COVID was a contributing factor in 25 percent of maternal deaths in the United States in 2020 and 2021. The spike in pregnancy-related deaths was particularly seen in Black and Hispanic women.
movement was the stupidest movement that ever lived and we should go away. but that is not the reality. the reality is, every single time a woman is pregnant or in most rooms, people say, congratulations, or, what can i do to help? or have a baby shower. in this instance, they re not treated as equal human beings with equal moral status, as you and i have. therefore, we re talking about the care of two human beings every single time. that s where the mercy and the compassion and justice of this movement comes from. you keep talking about care. i guess the people, the professionals most on the front line of care for pregnant women, they re medical professionals, they re doctors. doctors say that they fear that mortality rates amongst pregnant women, maternal death rates, will rise as a result of what is happening
pregnant women, maternal death rates, will rise as a result of what is happening in the us today. let me quote you one from texas, 0b gyn professor drjesse munoz in san antonio. doctors whose patients develop pregnancy complications now are struggling to determine whether a woman is, quote, sick enough to justify an abortion. the art of medicine is lost and has actually been replaced by fear. the art of medicine is enshrined in the hippocratic 0ath, which was changed just because pro abortion activists in the late 60s decided it should. the hippocratic 0ath is do no harm, provide no potion that would kill another human being. that is the origin, and that morality, that fundamental pillar of medicine is the same and hasn t changed, even if people s minds have changed about what is actually happening. when they see pregnant
childbirth. it s more dangerous for a black woman to have a baby in the united states than it is to have it in a third world country. and banning access to abortions is only going to make those maternal death rates even higher, women who will be forced to carry pregnancies even though those pregnancies cause grave injury and danger to their lives, women who won t have access to well qualified providers in their states, women who won t have the ability to travel outside of their states because they won t have the financial resources. so this ban, this devastating decision by the supreme court, of course, is devastating for all women, but it will have and is having a disproportionate impact on women of color, particularly black women. harry, much is being made about justice thomas concurring opinion, basically saying the court should reconsider cases regarding contraception and
in tokyo, traveling with the president. coming, up racism on display, maternal death rates in louisiana states are that bad if you do not count black women. but as i see something a sitting gop senator said in comments that are honestly quite hard to believe. we will expose and unpack bill cassidy s racist remarks, and when it says about his party. a little later in the hour, ted cruz says he does not understand how arsenal star p davis and get so many, quote and quote, hot woman. he blames toxic femininity. i have some thoughts on this. my message for ted cruz coming up. up flying] [tom cruise] tower this is ghost rider, requesting flyby. [control tower] negative ghost rider, the pattern is full. [sfx: fighter jet flying] ah, thunder, ah, thunder thunderstruck thunderstruck yeah yeah yeah thunderstruck [waitress] maverick. [tom cruise] having any fun yet? thunderstruck yeah yeah yeah