Obstetric violence is a misnomer ow.ly/YPZX50RhVR0
@AJOG_thegray Dear Editors in Chief, Please review correspondence from Human Rights in Childbirth requesting a right of reply and revert at your earliest convenience. Copy attached.
@AJOG_thegray Oh, honey. This is NOT the right response to families speaking up/out.
@AJOG_thegray As a scholar of violence, I can’t emphasize how off the mark you are on this. It is literally denying the reality of violence against women I now consider everyone who authored this paper as problematic academics to avoid citing.
@AJOG_thegray At least it provides a list of doctors to avoid.
@AJOG_thegray The audacity of posting this during Black Maternal Health Week! Are you trolling the true advocates, who have dedicated their lives to eliminating+ preventing maternal morbidity/mortality—including from obstetric violence? AJOG editors and media team showing their true colors.
@AJOG_thegray Contextualizing this w/ the recent news of a physician poisoning IV bags & another possibly blocking folks from needed liver transplants…. Yall really should’ve left this whole manuscript & post in drafts… this is sick, dishonest, and wreaks of a lack of accountability.
@AJOG_thegray Obstetric violence on slaves is how “The father of obstetrics” started the field. Like??? tiktok.com/@callmedoctor.…
@AJOG_thegray I’m sorry, how are ‘nonconsensual medical procedures’ not violent?
@AJOG_thegray Excuse me, but what's the plan to "address the structural dimensions that perpetuate abusive reproductive practices" if you can't even call it for what it is: violence? *How* is it not violence?