4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | I have to mention that because we are like peak capitalist society, heart of the empire, |
0:06.1 | it's already such a dystopian situation in terms of access to health care, right? |
0:11.0 | And care for mothers. |
0:13.6 | I don't have to belabor that point. |
0:15.6 | But one thing that was pretty shocking compared to essentially all of Europe. And, you know, sadly, Germany, I think, |
0:24.3 | does have like pretty restrictive abortion rights too. I think it's 12 weeks, if I'm not mistaken. |
0:28.5 | But check this out. All of these countries have very low maternal mortality rates. And the U.S. |
0:37.1 | is like literally like triple. The U.S. has by far the highest |
0:43.1 | maternal mortality rate of any other industrialized nation. Wow. I mean, that is unbelievable. |
0:51.2 | That is unbelievable. 24 deaths per 100,000 live births compared to next highest is France, which is eight deaths per 100,000 live births. |
1:02.0 | So what is going on here? |
1:03.0 | And who is this going to disproportionately affect? |
1:06.0 | Minority communities, low income, poor people, poor people, right? |
1:11.5 | Who already have children. |
1:12.7 | Like, I think of a significant number of people who get abortions already have children. |
1:17.2 | And maybe they want to keep it, but they can't fucking afford it. |
1:19.8 | Right. |
1:19.9 | They can't afford more. |
1:20.9 | It's like, oh, man, this is just, it's just so bad. |
1:26.2 | It's so bad for so many reasons. And it's, and you know, |
1:29.6 | a lot of like, I mean, we don't need to go too much into this, but like a lot of the people that are |
1:34.3 | like, oh, well, you should use protection. Like getting pregnant accidentally is like a very easy |
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