RHPolitics: I love pro-life twitter spam first thing in the morning.
You may remember this guy from his earlier twitter post: pregnancy is merely an inconvenience that any pregnant person should be able to put up with.
Let’s go over some of the horrible things that can happen during pregnancy. I’ll leave out the minor ones because, well, I don’t want to take up too much of your dashboard.
- Various permanent musculo-skeletal defects, such as carpal tunnel (as many as 65% of pregnant women!), gait defects, and Pelvic Girdle disorder which results in an inability to perform any weighbearing activities years after the baby is delivered (good luck keeping that blue-collar job! of course you’re just milking the system, duh).
- Preeclampsia, which causes extremely high blood pressure (160/110!) which is fatal 20% of the time and happens in 6-8% of pregnancies. This can continue after the baby is delivered. Blood pressure this high could cause you to have a major stroke, which has nasty side effects such as brain damage or death.
- Eclampia is what preeclampsia can turn into. You will have severe seizures and probably go into a coma and go braindead due to lack of oxygen.
- HELLP syndrome is a combination of hemolytic anemia (blood cells exploding!), platelets being destroyed (uncontrollable bleeding!), and liver damage/failure.
- Deep Vein Thrombosis is a fancy term for a blood clot that travels to your lungs and kills you. This can happen during pregnancy or labor, and the side effect is death. It’s incidence is 1-7 per 1000 pregnancies, so not as rare as you’d might think. Obviously just an inconvenience, though.
- Post-partum psychosis is a severe form of post-partum depression. Basically, you have a psychotic break after having a baby.
- Ectopic pregnancy is when the fetus starts developing outside of the uterus. This can cause the mother to bleed to death if not treated.
- Gestational diabetes is similar to normal diabetes, except it is triggered by pregnancy. Side effects are the same as normal diabetes, which is the most common cause of non-elderly blindness and non-trauma amputation in the world.
But I’m probably overreacting. These all sound like inconveniences to me.
