Racism in medical care

Ann Alhouse posts about the huge increase in neonatal deaths which the authors claim is from no abortion in Texas.

Yup. Just like the 1960s, expect to see a lot of sob stories to push the agenda of the elites to keep abortion a human right so these Karens can have their careers without bothering with kids (and who never worry about how they could outreach and help women forced to abort because of lack of financial or social support).

But this article is lying with statistics. 

 The article claims that the neonatal mortality increased 8%. 

That sounds bad, but then they note it is now 5.75 per 1,000 

 But if you realized the baseline was 5.5 percent, which increased 8 percent to 5.75, this doesn't sound so bad: 

Indeed it could be a statistical fluke,

This article has the statistics up to 2021.

you know what I notice? 

The rate of neonatal deaths in whites and Hispanics is about 5, but the rate of neonatal deaths in non Hispanic Black women is  10.

In other words, they push the tiny statistic for their own agenda, but miss the elephant in the room: An excess of neonatal deaths caused by racism.

It's not all racism per se, but psychological distrust of the medical system (Tuskegee. OKC meningocoel non treatment experiment among other things).

And because of this distrust, medical problems that could be prevented or treated if caught early end up causing sickness and even death.

When it comes to prenatal care, Black women have a higher incidence of toxemia, untreated high blood pressure, diabetes, lack of access to prenatal care, poor diets (high salt and high fat diets),  hemoglobinopathies, and a higher incidence of twin births

Blackdoctor.org article discusses.

a lot of these things could be picked up and often treated if routine and early prenatal care was done.

Covid infections during pregnancy and also the mRNA vaccine has been suspected to increase premature births, but is not even mentioned here, 

nor are other viral illnesses can also increase the rate of malformations (e.g. Rubella, because the lady never got her MMR vaccine, or Zika, which I suspect is still around, or Hep B or C disease or other STDs that are found on routine prenatal screening that was never done) . And of course, screening for illicit drug use.

Many of these things can be treated if prenatal care was available. 

But often there are fewer clinics convenient for the moms to get an appointment, not just in the black communities, but in rural areas,

and often there is a distrust of the system in the black community. And this includes distrust of some doctors (including many FMG who don't understand black culture or come from countries where blacks are looked down upon.)

 So the problem is racism, not that moms can't do abortions on malformed babies.

 

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I have worked in rural medicine where many of my patients were poor whites or Hispanics, but it was frustrating because no one was going out and finding the Hispanic farm workers who were women, often who lacked papers, to get them screened for their pregnancy.

and I also worked with the IHS, which had an active outreach using local home health workers to outreach to our patients. Too often the IHS docs came and went, but the tribal home health workers, local nurse midwives, and the fact that local health care workers could work with them via the extended family ties were what made the difference.

Yes, this can be done. And it requires you to work with organizations that are accepted by the locals: which for many black communities are their churches, social centers, and even barbershops.

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,,,,,,,,,,update; Another elephant in the room: Is the increase in malformation/premature deliveries, small for date babies a side effect of the mRNA vaccines?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,