Eleanor J. Bader
“Misogyny, racism, and the drug war were intersecting to deny pregnant women, especially Black pregnant women, their personhood. “
“Misogyny, racism, and the drug war were intersecting to deny pregnant women, especially Black pregnant women, their personhood. “
Fretting about whether or not the doubtless unpleasant experience of being publicly shamed will send Chelsea Clinton into labor has no more basis in scientific reality than past beliefs in a “maternal imagination” so powerful that looking at a distressing animal or disabled person could directly cause birth defects. What it does do is let us off the hook of meaningful advocacy for women’s health.