Here is the link:

‘I delivered my baby scared and alone.’: Mom raises awareness about hospital malpractice after traumatic birth

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By abolishing longstanding legal protections, the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade serves American families poorly, putting their health, safety, finances, and futures at risk. In view of these predictable consequences, the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine strongly condemn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision.

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The American Medical Association wrote in a statement Friday it is “deeply disturbed” by the decision, which it called an “egregious allowance of government intrusion into the medical examination room,” while the California Medical Association said it “undermines decades of progress in health care for pregnant people,” adding it is a “direct attack on the practice of medicine.”

The link to the Forbes article is here:

Medical Journals And Professional Groups Condemn Supreme Court Decision Overturning Roe

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A federal judge has awarded $5 million to a New Hampshire woman who suffered years of pain and scarring after a botched surgery at an Army hospital to repair an injury she received in childbirth.

The link to the NH bench verdict is here,

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If so, we should quit this stupid game. This all started back in the ’80s when Judge Bork lost his confirmation battle for telling the truth about his antipathy toward Roe. At some point, like-minded judges decided that it was okay to conceal their thoughts on the subject rather than tell the truth. Our Representatives encouraged the untruths by idly sitting by twiddling their thumbs instead of doing their job of providing the Executive with good advice and consent. Now, we are stuck with a tarnished Supreme Court.

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What we sometimes lose sight of is the other side of that blessed event – the Mother. And on that score, studies are confirming a problematic and worsening trend.

From the New York Times, a link and a quote,

US Maternal And Birth Related Deaths Are Rising

The United States already has a much higher maternal mortality rate than other developed countries, and the increase in deaths pushes the nation’s maternal mortality rate to 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020 from 20.1 deaths in 2019. Maternal mortality rates in developed countries have in recent years ranged from fewer than two deaths per 100,000 live births in Norway and New Zealand to just below nine deaths per 100,000 live births in France and Canada.

And from the peer-reviewed journals,

Obstetrics and Gynecology: US Trends in Maternal Mortality

Rigorous studies carried out by the National Center for Health Statistics show that previously reported increases in maternal mortality rates in the United States were an artifact of changes in surveillance. The pregnancy checkbox, introduced in the revised 2003 death certificate and implemented by the states in a staggered manner, resulted in increased identification of maternal deaths and in reported maternal mortality rates.

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