No one recognized just how sick her daughter was, Susan says, sharing that Jess was given an anti-nausea medication — but then advised not to take it because it could harm her baby.
If they had prioritized the woman over the pregnancy, she would be alive, and in all likelihood, the baby would be, too.
(I mean, many medications they don't even know if they're harmful to pregnancies, they just slap the warning on there just in case. It is rather proof of society's misogyny that there's no pregnancy-approved anti-nausea medications that are strong enough - granted, I don't know if scopolamine, the strongest anti-nausea medication I know of, would harm the fetus, but I don't know that it has any abortive effects, and in most cases, the dosage of any herb that'd end a pregnancy would kill a woman, too, which is why DIY abortions are so dangerous. In any case, modern science would have found something safe if they'd looked hard enough, I am sure.)
But the issue wasn't the medication not being strong enough to be effective, she was told not to take it. Even if the medication posed some risk to the fetus, so does dehydration, malnutrition, and maternal depression and stress!
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If they had prioritized the woman over the pregnancy, she would be alive, and in all likelihood, the baby would be, too.
(I mean, many medications they don't even know if they're harmful to pregnancies, they just slap the warning on there just in case. It is rather proof of society's misogyny that there's no pregnancy-approved anti-nausea medications that are strong enough - granted, I don't know if scopolamine, the strongest anti-nausea medication I know of, would harm the fetus, but I don't know that it has any abortive effects, and in most cases, the dosage of any herb that'd end a pregnancy would kill a woman, too, which is why DIY abortions are so dangerous. In any case, modern science would have found something safe if they'd looked hard enough, I am sure.)
But the issue wasn't the medication not being strong enough to be effective, she was told not to take it. Even if the medication posed some risk to the fetus, so does dehydration, malnutrition, and maternal depression and stress!