There's a lot sickening about the human rights violations occurring against Adriana Smith right now, but one of the ones that's really searing me is that they're gonna use her death and experimentation as a medical lesson or method of "saving babies" that they'll try not to bring up in textbooks. It's been that same pattern for the entirety of gynecology in America; Black women are used as guinea pigs to test shit in order to become "good enough" to save everyone else. Not bad enough that were 3x more likely to die in childbirth when we walk into the birthing room, not bad enough that no one takes our pain seriously at any medical stage. No, NOW I gotta worry about my family having to pay the bills to keep my dead body warm for a Black baby that, if it's born, will face a world that will treat it just as inhumanely as the Black mother it came from. Bc they're not gonna give a shit about it once it's born. CRAZY.
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Anyway read Medical Apartheid by Harriet A Washington, if you need "receipts" for how Black bodies have long been abused for the "sake of medical progress".
All the Black children left to die or were outright murdered by the state, but NOW we wanna "save the baby". All the Black dead was somebody's baby too, Adriana was somebody's baby, or does it only matter when it's time to control someone's body? Even in DEATH we can't escape indignities. Ghoulish fucking country.
