What are the conditions that threaten a woman's life

[mmonk]

if they carry a pregnancy to term? I'm working on a newspaper rebuttal and would like a list (even partial). Thanks in advance.

[blogslut]

1. I'm no doctor

But I almost died from a blood clot during childbirth.

[salin]

2. My SIL, who is a doctor,

almost died due to hemoraging during childbirth. I believe it was so bad that my brother (another dr) called the Priest to come to the hospital.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Diabetes, High blood pressure, phlebitis, epilepsy, bipolar disorder,

anorexia, cervical cancer (or any type of cancer), tachycardia, kidney disease... just to name a few.

[lapfog_1]

4. ectopic pregnancy

any implantation of a fertilized egg outside the womb.
Very dangerous to the life of the mother if not terminated.

[terip64]

5. I can only tell you that as a woman who has given birth three times

that it can be very frightening. You lose total control of your body and yet you have to be in control at the same time. You have to get yourself to a place where you can cope with the pain and literally breath through it. It certainly helps to be in shape. It is sort of like a triathlon. ;)

Having said that if you are in anyway disabled or weak because of sickness I can see where it can get ugly really fast. I was blessed with all of my births but they were still scary as hell and the hardest thing I have ever done. I did it three times so ladies don't let me scare you. It was also the most amazing thing in the world, even though I did have my eyes closed!

[Cirque du So-What]

6. From a heated discussion on a board I moderate:

You are grossly ignorant on the matter. Every time a man fails to control his fertile sperm and it winds up in the body of a woman unwilling to be impregnated, he has put her at serious risk for physical harm. Every time. It is unconscionable to do so.

Pregnancy is a serious medical condition. There are many, many serious physical harms and associated disorders including, but not limited to: hyperemesis gravidarum, back injury, prolapsed uterus, pre-eclampsia (edema and hypertension), eclampsia, gestational diabetes, placenta previa, torn abdominal muscles, mitral valve stenosis, embolism, thrombocytopenic purpura, hemorrhages, and ectopic pregnacies. All of these can be life threatening for the woman.

Pregnancy can result in blindness, heart attack, and death. Pregnancy kills women.

There are many, many other more common, yet often serious side effects. Kidney and bladder infections, nausea and vomiting, altered appetite, skin discoloration, incontinence, headaches and migraines, pica, congestion, nose-bleeds, hemmorhoids, severe abdominal cramping, breast pain, high blood pressure, anemia, breathing problems, bleeding gums, joint swelling and pain. There is post-partum psychosis, post-partum depression, exhaustion, dehydration, indigestion, heart-burn, bloating, acne, dizziness, significant weight loss/gain, syncope, hair loss. Permanent side effects include disfiguration, unhealthy weight gain and redistribution that can lead to diabetes or heart disease, abdominal and/or vaginal muscle weakness, pelvic floor disorder, varicose veins, scarring, osteoporosis, increased proclivity for hemmorhoids.

The alarming increase in diabetes and asthma in this country will ensure even greater frequency of problematic and dangerous medical conditions related to or exacerbated severly by being pregnant.

Every time, every time it will lead to ripping of genital and reproductive tissue, often a feeling akin to having the skin on your balls ripped off, or having a knife slicing through abdominal muscles and tissue.

Labor is like being kicked in the balls, hard, often, and for hours on end. In some cases, it must be induced by medications that can cause the uterus to rip and tear apart. Surgical instruments when used in difficult cases can cut into other tissue in the abdomen, leading the way for septicemia, a life threatening and often fatal systemic blood infection.

So, hey, fuck you with your "inconvenience." You likely wouldn't suffer a week with this before going on a psychopathic rampage. If someone were causing this level of harm to your body, you'd fucking kill them and probably the person who was an accomplice, too. Some men would probably rampage a mall or school and murder a bunch of bystanders in an effort to express the indignity and pain. Others would probably bomb countries and kill thousands and thousands of people just to get out their frustration. The vast majority would likely just go to a physician and ask to have it end, to protect their health and life. Because men are emotional and weak and can't take little inconveniences in life. Isn't that what you're getting at? Control your sperm, it can hurt people.

http://liberalforum.org/liberalforum//index.php?s=&showtopic=21247&view=findpost&p=441131

[spinbaby]

7. Genetic defects

There is a family of genetic defects including triploidy and trisomy 18 in which the baby has next to no chance of surviving birth, but which make it almost certain the mother will develop toxemia after the 24th week.

[sarge43]

8. The Merck Manual online is a good place to start

http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec18/ch263/ch263a.html

http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec18/ch264/ch264a.html

[mmonk]

9. I'm particularly interested in situations involving D & X procedures.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. A fetus with hydrocephalus (water on the brain).

The fetus would not long survive birth due to the congenital malformation. The head is abnormally large due to the built-up fluid in the cranium, making it too large to pass through the birth canal. That's why the D & X is performed to "reshape" and "resize" the cranium to allow passage.

[terip64]

14. OMG I didn't know that. How could the courts get involved in this? n/t

[terip64]

13. The only time I have ever known a person to have a D&X it was because the baby

wasn't viable and there was no reason to continue the pregnancy because of all the earlier stated risks of full term pregnancy.

Not viable as in having missing organs like a brain, literally.

[Loki]

10. Look up info on these conditions.......

most of these are life-threatening. Pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, placenta previa and abruptio placenta. Gestational diabetes can be a serious condition for both mother and fetus. Hope this helps.

[Loki]

11. delete - double post

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Having a dead fetus inside of the womb is also life threatening to the woman.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. Back in the 1940s (the 1940s!) a friend of my mother

had a late pregnancy terminated because she was in danger of kidney failure.