Stop Romanticizing Pregnancy & Childbirth

Sure, it’s a miracle. That doesn’t make it safe, or easy

Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash

There is a disturbing culture of minimizing the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth in the United States. That would be bad enough on its own if it wasn’t also for the fact that many people refuse to acknowledge pregnancy and childbirth:

• kills approximately 800 American…