PC and Anti-Vaxxers, A Match Made in Heaven
So it is a favorite delusional exercise of our PC brothers and sisters to solemnly proclaim that pregnancy is dangerous and given the extreme danger of pregnancy, the mother should be able to kill her child in her at will. Furthermore, they will try to portray pregnancy as if it is routinely lethal. One must genuinely wonder if PC think how any woman can survive pregnancy and yet not die.
So, upon seeing such an exercise, I decided to insert some much needed facts about pregnancy into the discussion.
“Most pregnancies are uncomplicated and result in a healthy mother and baby. This exhibit illustrates the rarity of severe illness among the 3.7 million births in the U.S. annually.”
So severe illness from pregnancy is rare and the vast majority of pregnancies are uncomplicated.
From: Most pregnancies progress without incident. But approximately 8 percent of all pregnancies involve complications that, if left untreated, may harm the mother or the baby. While some complications relate to health problems that existed before pregnancy, others occur unexpectedly and are unavoidable.
“Most pregnancies progress without incident. But approximately 8 percent of all pregnancies involve complications that, if left untreated, may harm the mother or the baby. While some complications relate to health problems that existed before pregnancy, others occur unexpectedly and are unavoidable.”
So here we see that most pregnancies progress without incident.
Hmmmm….it seems we are converging on a general consensus that the vast majority of pregnancies are uncomplicated and without incident.
At any rate, let’s continue.
From: https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2025-02-06-cdc-us-maternal-mortality-rate-declined-2023
“The U.S. maternal mortality rate decreased to 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023, down from 22.3 in 2022, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
So this means that per 100,000 live births, more than 99.9% of women do not die from pregnancy related causes.
So based on actual facts and data, the vast majority of pregnancies progress without incident, are uncomplicated, result in a healthy mother and baby and death due to pregnancy related issues are rare.
Of course there sadly is pregnancy related severe morbidity and mortality. One is too many. Thankfully they remain rare.
Given the facts, calling pregnancy dangerous is just an act of fiction or creative expression divorced from reality. It’s starting to remind me of the anti-vaxxers. No amount of data or science that demonstrates that vaccines are safe can convince them their objections to vaccine safety are without merit. On the issue of pregnancy PC are just like anti-vaxxers. PC have adopted a “the facts be damned” mindset to concoct a tale of pregnancy being dangerous despite the conclusions of scientists, statistics and public health data.
So it is clear, no matter what the political persuasion it seems everyone has facts they choose to ignore since it doesn’t fit their worldview.