And this gaslighting does more than poison our dialogues it often places women in life-or-death danger.
The nurse thought her pain medicine might be making her confused.
But Serena insisted, and soon enough a doctor was performing an ultrasound of her legs.
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I was like, a Doppler?
I told you, I need a CT scan and a heparin drip, she remembers telling the team.
Minutes later she was on the drip.
I was like, listen to Dr. Williams!
In other words, anti-abortion restrictions constitute a massive public health issue.
And the economic implications of this issue are far from race-neutral.
These atrocities were notably committed at the behest of a pro-life administration.
Incarcerated pregnant women are vulnerable to face the same radically inhumane conditions of detained pregnant migrant women and girls.
In 2013, researchers found black women were substantially more likely than white women to be uninsured.
And thats because the underlying racial biases in health care arent always contingent on ones economic situation.
One stark example of this is the disproportionate prevalence of migraines among women.
This is, in part, biological.
Its emblematic of who in society is allowed to ask for moreand who isnt.
Theres a different burden of proof for men and womens pain.
And the consequences of this double standard, throughout history and today, have been devastating.
FOR WOMEN OF COLOR, there are a couple of crucial caveats to all of this.
Theres a message here beyond surface-level, run-of-the-mill racism and nativism.
A jury managed to find her guilty of both.
The results of the lung float test suggested the baby had been alive, and killed by Patels neglect.
But thats neither here nor there.
She survived, but her 33-week-old fetus did not, and required a Caesarian section to be removed.
But watered down anti-women biases also exist even within those liberal and progressive spaces.
Its always, Well, lets worry about health care and well include reproductive rights after …
But this wasnt just one isolated episode or an anomaly of some sort.
And the punishment of rape survivors in politics and medicine is as egregious as it is pervasive.
Luckily, of course, VAWA lived.
This last item is known as the rape exception.
Of course, due to their extreme nature, many of these bills fail to be enacted.
Views like his and the other 16 percent of Americans who unilaterally believe abortion should be illegal are appalling.
The rape exception is not a good thing.
Reproductive rights and violence against women are interconnected, inseparable issues.
The Gaslit Diariesfurther explores the dangerous politics and gaslighting that underlie womens everyday experiences in the patriarchy.
The book isavailable now.
