Pre-natal care is not a privilege, it’s a right

[proud2BlibKansan]

After celebrating our mothers on Sunday, we should take a good look at what our government is doing to protect maternal health.

Maternal mortality, the death of a woman due to complications in pregnancy or childbirth, is primarily a problem in the developing world, but preventable deaths still occur in the U.S. The maternal mortality ratio is higher in the United States than 49 other countries. A nation that boasts such great technological advances in health care and standard of living should not be a more dangerous place for a woman to be pregnant than 25 percent of the world’s countries.

In the U.S., the maternal mortality rate among black women is almost four times the rate of white women. Amnesty International has identified the obstacles some women face obtaining adequate maternal health care in the U.S. as including discrimination, language barriers and financial barriers. Race and poverty are obviously two major determinates of safety in pregnancy.

Even though this is a prevalent issue, it often doesn’t get the attention it deserves. This seems to follow the trend of mothers not being as appreciated as they should until Mother’s Day rolls around—I think many students would agree with that. It is time for us to make mothers a priority.

more . . . http://www.kansan.com/news/2011/may/11/cosby-pre-natal-care-not-privilege-its-right/?opinion

[Newest Reality]

1. Rights are now

based on profit. If it, or you, is not profitable, then rights are not an issue.

We could all get together and throw that off, but who of us, (working for the Master/Corporation) will ever get down to actually doing it?

None. Never! We must accept our fate because, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" is not, at all, in our vernacular. Get the new thing, love life, keep you lifestyle going even if contributes to the most ultimate, technological neo-Fascism ever.

We have been taught to love this short and confusing life so much that we are now able to give it, no holds barred, over to the people who know we won't sacrifice it for anything at all, including our freedom. We are becoming the perfect cattle for the ultimate farm owner and the most docile keep for the opulent powers that be.

It is a good time to be rich. No King or Master has ever had a better opportunity to have the ultimate control over so many people without too much blood-letting with the perks of a plethora of amazing things to own and, (if you can afford it) the ability to live to a ripe, old age in great health.

Consider the great humor afforded to the winners of the Class War as they look DOWN upon you all, without empathy or concern, as they take you yet another level down into your own manufactured self-destruction. You get corporate treats, (like doggy bones) all along the way and the TV says they are right. Gosh forbid you ever manage to get the fine print in the contract that sells humanity out forever. The suffering and servitude will never be reconcilable or recompensed!

What a time to be alive. Simple, cognizance choices could easily make a new world emerge at any moment, and here we are, listening to a massive, manipulative voice, desperate to convince us that we must, for some reason, keep its reality going, no matter what.

[freshwest]

6. What a wonderful post and going in the same direction I do most of the time. Thanks.

[jberryhill]

2. It all depends on how long you intend to keep them in the stroller /nt

[JDPriestly]

3. No, you've got it wrong.

Pre-natal care is not a privilege. It is not a right. It is an obligation that you owe to your child.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. +1

[Zoeisright]

4. And yet the fervent "pro-life" crowd (that's only "pro-intrusion" and "anti-women")

wants to cut prenatal care funding. Exposing them, yet AGAIN, as the heartless misogynistic pigs that they are.

[freshwest]

7. Yes, it shows they are polarized, split personalities.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. K&R!