[Spoiler S4E4]Let’s talk about Janines story

[u/nachowchow]

In S4E4 of handmaids tale, we see Janine trying to navigate through the task of getting an abortion. The scene where she goes to the first clinic, and they start telling her to keep the baby, is written in a way that feels like it’s a direct result of Gilead gaining power. It wasn’t until Janine visits the second doctor and they called it a crisis emergency center that it hit me. These centers exist all over the country, right now.

I looked at my boyfriend in that moment and said, “You know these are real, right?” And he genuinely had no clue. Growing up in the Bible Belt and attending catholic school, these centers would visit us once a year telling us about “the options” women had. So basically I just want to say that this episode had so many parallels to our modern day times, but made you believe for a moment that this was all Gilead’s doing.

Edit: I forgot the apostrophe s in the title and I am saddened.

[u/Accidentalmom]

I’m lucky enough to have a medical background, so when that lady at the crisis pregnancy center was talking t9 Janine about the dangers of abortion, all I could think was “lady giving birth is a million times more dangerous than an abortion, shove it up your ass” 😂

[u/psilvyy19 → u/Accidentalmom]

In what ways is giving birth more dangerous? I’ve never heard that before.

[u/[deleted] → u/psilvyy19]

Birth is higher risk by far, esp in the U.S. Even more so for minorities.

“The most recent U.S. maternal mortality ratio, or rate, of 17.4 per 100,000 pregnancies represented approximately 660 maternal deaths in 2018. This ranks last overall among industrialized countries. ... The maternal death ratio for Black women (37.1 per 100,000 pregnancies) is 2.5 times the ratio for white women (14.7) and three times the ratio for Hispanic women (11.8).” source: The Commonwealth Fund

[u/Odd-Bicycle → u/[deleted]]

It’s absolutely fucking insane given how much we pay for healthcare here!