Worth noting:
The data on maternal care was collected prior to the U.S. Supreme Courtâs decision in June that overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S.
So I am sure itâs much better now⌠(/s)
Not only does this put women in danger, but their babies have measurably worse outcomes, increasing the strain on already overburdened pediatric resources. Increasing burnout, leaving the field and so on. Itâs not a good thing any way you look at it.
So, they âwinâ by every marker you just mentioned.
The cruelty, the pain, the injuries, and the deaths are all very much The Point.
So many possible threads:
Not surprising that numerous countries have similar misogynistic sayings, but I was intrigued by the misunderstanding of the British version:
As I cast about for an answer, I discovered a British proverb that seems to have inspired our own American variant. âKeep her well-shagged and poorly shod and sheâll not wander far,â and adaptations thereof, shows up on hundreds of internet conversation threads, social media posts, novels, and, poignantly, in this punk rock song about domestic violence (citation removed). As Jonathon Green, author of Greenâs Dictionary of Slang, noted in response to my Twitter inquiry about âwell-shagged and poorly shod,â itâs almost always prefaced by âthe old proverb,â but thereâs no evidence of it predating the 20th century.
The poorly shod part is the same, yes, but âwell-shaggedâ means sexually satisfied, not pregnant. Itâs also a requirement in Judaism: sexually satisfy your wife, regularly. Thatâs the opposite of what we mean in the States with the expression âbarefoot & pregnantâ.
Unfortunately, More Women Are Being Forced to Describe Harvey Weinsteinâs âDeformedâ Genitalia
âPolice said the victim, Greta Denise Rainey, 35, had been raped and strangled.â
âThe Washington Blade reported in an Aug. 28, 1987, story that D.C. police initially arrested Raineyâs girlfriend, Roxanne Johnson, 32, on a charge of second-degree murder for Raineyâs death two days after Raineyâs body was found in Johnsonâs apartment on May 13, 1987.
The Blade story reported that four months later, prosecutors with the Office of the U.S. Attorney for D.C. dropped the murder charge against Johnson without disclosing a reason for doing so. Johnson at the time contacted the Blade to say the charge was dropped âbecause I didnât do it.â She said her arrest on what she called a false charge had a devastating impact on her life.
Among other things she said her landlord pressured her into moving out of her apartment on grounds that her presence was alarming the other tenants.â
35 years to process a rape kit - and letâs charge her girlfriend for some reason.
JFC.
Mark Werksman, Weinsteinâs attorney, told the court that prior to the MeToo movement, it was a perfectly common practice for women hoping to break into the industry to barter with sex: âHollywoodâŚwas an entirely different place. In Hollywood, sex was a commodity. Thatâs the way things were done.â
So not only is he implying that that was cool and okay, heâs implying that the women here are lying about it being consensual encounters with Weinstein.
And also, I wish I hadnât read that. I canât un-know the odd details about his junk. 
At least there were no visuals, I guess.
And, itâs actually the powerful men in control of everything in the industry who were the victims of those ambitious, conniving women.
My aunt experienced the âcasting couchâ. It wasnât consensual & it hurt her badly.
The term âincelligenceâ needs to gain traction:
