Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children.
Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈
One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
Exactly right.
Thousands of different cultures are mingling happily in lower Manhattan right now, and anyone who can't get on board with that is the social misfit.
America always has been and always will be diverse.
Love it or leave it, assholes.
Catherine Frieman
"I am deeply concerned about why such a large team is now necessary. The White House has so far refused to say who all those doctors were"
Top Democrat on House Judiciary Cmte is probing Trump health. New inquiry to White House doctor about reports Trump saw 22 specialists
Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
Scott MacFarlane
Kevin M. Kruse
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally
“…what happened here is Trump said, We’re opening up $300 billion in reconstruction aid to Iran—provided you meet a bunch of conditions later—in order to undo the mistake I made in launching this war in the first place and [closing] the Strait of Hormuz and bringing the global economy to its knees.”
It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago.
Edward Perez
Garrett M. Graff
I don’t know which is worse, the slavish obsequiousness of these tech billionaires; or the familiar spectacle of our deeply damaged president reveling in his power over others.
Assholes all around.
At some point this claim from white rurals and their advocates that "You can't get along with different people" means that they are the different people with whom we cannot get along.
