Re: Forwarded article from timesunion.com
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon Sep 17 15:18:48 2007
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it"
Omar Khayyam
Art
At Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
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>Ina May,
>
>Isn't there something called "Duplicity of Events"?
>
>But, anyway, if a black, illiterate, drug addicted, HIV infected woman
>dies in deep inner city USA she is just as dead as the white,
>educated, athletic, healthy All American Girl.
>
>The United States (as opposed to Afghanistan for example) *DOES* have
>the resources to sort this out but does not apply them.
>
>This very thread started with the remark: "What a Tragedy".
>
>Indeed.
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>el
>
>on 9/16/07 9:31 AM Ina May Gaskin said the following:
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>> Exactly, el. I have about 50 local news articles like this one,
>> collected over the last 7-8 years or so. The only case(s) that made
>> national publicity was when 2 (white) teachers from a small New
>> Jersey town who worked at the same school died within 2 weeks of
>> each other following c-sections for their first births last spring.
>> The women worked at the same primary school and died from
>> unspecified causes related to bleeding during or after surgery.
>> That was shocking enough for the news to go national for a day. The
>> spokesperson for the hospital said it was something like lightning
>> striking twice in the same place or "like winning the lottery—only
>> in a bad way."
>>
>> The next that I heard about was the death about 10 days later of a
>> well-known football player's healthy, athletic wife (vaginal birth,
>> first baby, white woman). That was local news in Tampa, but the
>> story was "newsworthy" because of the husband's reputation as an
>> athlete. The reason was reported to be blood loss a few hours after
>> the birth.
>>
>> Quilt pieces are being created for each of these women.
>>
>> My aim with the quilt project is to create the pressure necessary
>> for the CDC to be able to collect all the data. Why wouldn't we
>> want to do that? It seems to me a necessary first step to reducing
>> maternal mortality. BTW, ACOG is aware of my project, because I
>> showed the first panel of the quilt in one of their conference rooms
>> when ACOG was still part of the Safe Motherhood Initiatives-USA
>> coalition. That panel was also exhibited at the 1st Summit for Safe
>> Motherhood 4-5 September 2001 in Atlanta, co-sponsored by ACOG, CDC
>> and ACNM.
>>
>> Has anyone here seen the UK's triennial book for the public
>> published RCOG: Why Mothers Die? I have the last 3 copies, and they
>> can be downloaded free of charge.
>>
>> Ina May
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art fougner, md
"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
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