Time wasted on trans ideology has meant more pregnant women dying under the NHS
Patient safety for women during and post-childbirth is in decline. Caring for mothers and babies should be the NHS’s priority
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When we argue for better healthcare for women, we are arguing for sex-based rights, not some imaginary right based on a desired identity. And what could be more basic to our sex than giving birth?
Yet while the NHS frets pointlessly over a whole slew of nonsense that seeks to deny female biology, something is going very wrong in our country with maternity care.
An analysis by the Institute of Global Health innovation at Imperial College London has revealed alarming declines in NHS patient safety. It shows that the number of women dying during or shortly after pregnancy, and babies dying within 28 days of being born, have increased for the first time in a decade. Since 2017 the maternal death rate itself has increased by a ‘statistically significant’ 52.3 per cent.* *
Surely the time and energy spent on trans ideology could have been used on caring for women and babies?
Recently, we have rightly focussed on the lack of decent palliative care in the NHS. But we must also talk about the beginning of life. We must talk of what it is like to give birth these days, the parlous state of antenatal care in some parts of the country, and the complete lack of follow-up care for mothers who are clearly struggling.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/17/time-wasted-on-trans-ideology-means-pregnant-women-dying/
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Completely wretched state of affairs. I consider this to be multi-factorial but they all come back to a disregard for patient safety, women's health, and inattention to the social contributors to this.