somebody can understand that i m not crazy after all. i actually in my mind thought i ve paid my dues. the i ve dealt with the pain. i ve missed classes. i rescheduled my wedding. so when it s time to have a family, you have a family. i never put two and two together. i didn t realize the spectrum of infertility versus fertility. i remember at that time also going to a learning about ivf session. i didn t expect to hear the stories that i heard. i was hearing ivf number eight because we get pregnant but i had five stillbirths. then i heard a lady say i m in my 17th year of ivf. i packed up my keys and i ran
access abortion? are they literally testing out something that they might use after roe falls, to try to track people who end their pregnancies or who have miscarriages and stillbirths? is this about ensuring the existence of an impoverished underclass? is it driven by racist views of, like, white extinction, which drove the criminalization of abortion last time our country did this, you know, over 100 years ago. it is fascinating to think of the reasoning. all the things you listed are bad. so any of those reasons would be bad. exactly. explain why you new book is called the pregnancy police. it makes me think of the texas law where vigilantes can sue anyone who helped someone get an abortion from literally any part of the country. they don t even have to live in texas. from maine, they can sue you because you drove your friend to seek out an abortion. sure. so i call it the pregnancy
looking into 23 cases, by the time they stopped looking over 1500 cases had come before the review. it is the largest maternity inquiry in the history of the nhs. ahead of publication we have heard the review have concluded that 131 stillbirths and 70 neonatal deaths might not have happened had they received better maternity care. some of those cases were never even investigated opportunities to learn lessons are simply not taken. the vast majority of cases from the year 2000 2019. we have also learned that poor care seems to have contributed to the deaths of a number of women in childbirth and two children suffering preventable harm such as cerebral palsy and brain injuries. the trust here will respond fully tomorrow. they have previously said they take full responsibility for they take full responsibility for the failings and they offer sincere apologies to all the families that they have harmed. apologies to all the families that they have harmed. apologies to all the families th
life changing injuries as a result of the failure to provide adequate treatment by shrewsbury and telford nhs trust. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan helped uncover the story and joins us now. 200 avoidable deaths and many injuries this is a very serious finding. it is indeed, and tomorrow is the culmination of a five year investigation into maternity care in shropshire, shared by the senior midwife which started out as an investigation into 23 cases but it has mushroomed and the review team looked into 1862 cases and it is the largest inquiry into maternity care in the history of the nhs. ahead of the publication, what we have learned is that the review team have concluded that 131 stillbirths and 70 neonatal deaths might not have happened had better maternity been
correspondent mike buchanan. it is staggering to hear that figure of 200 babies. explain more about this and what is going to happen, what is going to change? it is this and what is going to happen, what is going to change?- what is going to change? it is a staggering what is going to change? it is a staggering figure. what is going to change? it is a staggering figure. and - what is going to change? it is a staggering figure. and in - what is going to change? it is a staggering figure. and in many| what is going to change? it 3 . staggering figure. and in many ways an unfortunate vindication for a number of families who campaigned for years for an independent review into maternity kia here in shropshire believing that that care was simply not good enough and to many families were being fails. the official publication of this independent review will happen tomorrow here in shrewsbury. what we ve learnt out of the publication is around 201 babies may well have survived had they rec