Mr Geezer and his sister were both at home births, since his parents had no $ and his mother was lucky enough to have a cousin who knew about "birthin' babies". My MIL told me that my hubby had had his umbilical cord wrapped around his throat. (back in the barely post war 1940s) You need someone who knows stuff.
When my grandmother gave birth to my mother and her twin brother, people thought that Ma wouldn't make it. (1915) They kept her warm just after birth in the coal stoves oven (luckily in April, so not hot enough to cook her).
Stories like that are only cool on TV or in the movies, not in real life, unless you are Seth Meyers. In fact though I bet thy are only cool in retrospect.
Idaho used to be this half-civilized backwater of a state with gorgeous scenery. Now it’s a completely uncivilized hellhole with gorgeous scenery. I have to wonder about the two new OBGYNs, did they have any other job offers or did they merely think, “I’m gonna do Pap smears all day and bag the rest of my training?”
The new OB/GYN's are probably working off education debt. incurred by the hospitals that sent them to med school, with a contract to give back 4-5 years service....kinda 'Northern Exposure' ish....
Another example of the law: a lawyer in Seattle had to go elsewhere to have her baby because her practice focused on neonatal/ObGyn lawsuits and this worried local Ob/Gyns. Since I clueless as to the nature of the suits, I don't point fingers just saying there are landmines out there
If I were an OB I certainly would not want to serve as a test case, but I can just imagine the courtroom scene where someone who has performed an abortion that was absolutely necessary to save the life of the mother is brought up on charges.
Would even an Idaho jury convict after a bunch of experts testified that the woman would have undoubtedly died had I not gone ahead?
I have one man-splanation to offer, and that's to point out that maternal mortality is, thankfully, pretty rare these days, and that Idaho's population is fairly small, so a 121% increase in maternal mortality may be a statistical fluke.
But of course, if you're going to criminalize treatment of ectopic pregnancies, quite a few women will die for no reason at all. Sickening and, infuriating.
A 121% increase means that the larger number is 2.21 times the smaller number. The numbers are integers. I wrote a quick code to check the integers for a likely match so that 2.21 * n = another integer, or closej, and the best seemed to be 19 maternal deaths one year and 42 the next year; 2.21 times 19 is about 41.99. That is WAY more than one would expect from statistical fluctuations.
If "The Great Replacement" were a real thing, you'd have to think legislators in places like Idaho were in on it - according to Wikipedia, 91% of the population is white.
Sadly, that would also imply a level of cunning and foresight they just don't possess.
IFF: "Gummint ain't supposed to scoop up infermation 'bout birthin' no babbies! It's only suppose to tell people who you can marry an' to stop them hoors from sinnin'!"
Yet somehow the increase in faces eaten doesn't seem to have resulted in nearly enough of a decrease in the number of people voting for the "Leopards Eating Faces" party.
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Mr Geezer and his sister were both at home births, since his parents had no $ and his mother was lucky enough to have a cousin who knew about "birthin' babies". My MIL told me that my hubby had had his umbilical cord wrapped around his throat. (back in the barely post war 1940s) You need someone who knows stuff.
When my grandmother gave birth to my mother and her twin brother, people thought that Ma wouldn't make it. (1915) They kept her warm just after birth in the coal stoves oven (luckily in April, so not hot enough to cook her).
Stories like that are only cool on TV or in the movies, not in real life, unless you are Seth Meyers. In fact though I bet thy are only cool in retrospect.
American sociologist Robert K. Merton was the guy who did all of the time and motion studies to make work places more efficient.
Ta, Robyn. Idaho has some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet. That said, it's a total shithole if one is a woman of reproductive age.
Idaho used to be this half-civilized backwater of a state with gorgeous scenery. Now it’s a completely uncivilized hellhole with gorgeous scenery. I have to wonder about the two new OBGYNs, did they have any other job offers or did they merely think, “I’m gonna do Pap smears all day and bag the rest of my training?”
The new OB/GYN's are probably working off education debt. incurred by the hospitals that sent them to med school, with a contract to give back 4-5 years service....kinda 'Northern Exposure' ish....
If so, sadly Faustian. “You must return, even if you can’t practice what you were taught.”
Enjoy your OB/GYN shortage, red states. I feel bad for those citizens who didn’t vote for this disaster. But the rest of you can reap the whirlwind.
Obligatory:
Bob serves as interpreter during delivery of triplets on Night Court.
https://youtu.be/OuzXm2_fYFI
Another example of the law: a lawyer in Seattle had to go elsewhere to have her baby because her practice focused on neonatal/ObGyn lawsuits and this worried local Ob/Gyns. Since I clueless as to the nature of the suits, I don't point fingers just saying there are landmines out there
If I were an OB I certainly would not want to serve as a test case, but I can just imagine the courtroom scene where someone who has performed an abortion that was absolutely necessary to save the life of the mother is brought up on charges.
Would even an Idaho jury convict after a bunch of experts testified that the woman would have undoubtedly died had I not gone ahead?
This is infuriating.
I have one man-splanation to offer, and that's to point out that maternal mortality is, thankfully, pretty rare these days, and that Idaho's population is fairly small, so a 121% increase in maternal mortality may be a statistical fluke.
But of course, if you're going to criminalize treatment of ectopic pregnancies, quite a few women will die for no reason at all. Sickening and, infuriating.
That’s one helluva fluke there, 121%. Don’t go to a casino.
You're likely right (and I never gamble anyway).
A 121% increase means that the larger number is 2.21 times the smaller number. The numbers are integers. I wrote a quick code to check the integers for a likely match so that 2.21 * n = another integer, or closej, and the best seemed to be 19 maternal deaths one year and 42 the next year; 2.21 times 19 is about 41.99. That is WAY more than one would expect from statistical fluctuations.
𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒂 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝑰𝒅𝒂𝒉𝒐, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏.
Seems like a short sentence for what they claim to consider murder.
If "The Great Replacement" were a real thing, you'd have to think legislators in places like Idaho were in on it - according to Wikipedia, 91% of the population is white.
Sadly, that would also imply a level of cunning and foresight they just don't possess.
When do we cue the incel outrage about wimmins refusing sex? Oh, they already are? I hadn't noticed. Insert shrug emoji here.
From the linkee about Idaho dissolving the state's maternal mortality review committee:
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐𝘥𝘢𝘩𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦-𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘳-𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘣𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘐𝘥𝘢𝘩𝘰 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.
IFF: "Gummint ain't supposed to scoop up infermation 'bout birthin' no babbies! It's only suppose to tell people who you can marry an' to stop them hoors from sinnin'!"
Leopards seem to be eating a LOT of faces these days.
Yet somehow the increase in faces eaten doesn't seem to have resulted in nearly enough of a decrease in the number of people voting for the "Leopards Eating Faces" party.
Why do you need obstetricians when large animal veterinarians will make house calls?
Shove those hands up there, grab the baby, and pull it onto the straw! The mom will eat the placenta and umbilical cord and lick the baby clean.
If the baby cannot get up to walk in the first couple of minutes or so then ... oh, shoot, wait ... that part might not quite work.