Posted on 10/13/2013 7:36:39 AM PDT by lowbridge
Mexico has been badly shaken by a photograph of a woman squatting on the grass and grimacing in pain as she gives birth to a child. It’s not that the photograph is so dreadful, although one feels for her pain and the absence of privacy and, therefore, dignity. What’s causing so much soul-searching in Mexico is the reason the woman ended up being photographed giving birth on a lawn.
Mexico, a country with socialized medicine (except for rich people, who have their own private healthcare market), has a troubling shortage of good maternity care. Additionally, Mexico’s indigenous people routinely face discrimination when they try to get access to government health services.
Irma Lopez, 29, went to a health clinic in Oaxaca, Mexico, because she was in labor. She didn’t even make it through the front door. Instead, a nurse told Lopez that she was only eight months pregnant, and therefore “not ready” to deliver. The nurse told Lopez to take a walk and come back the next day.
This advice was ironic, since Lopez and her husband had already walked an hour to the clinic from their one-bedroom hut in the mountains. While walking outside the clinic, though, Lopez’s water finally broke.
Lopez dropped to the lawn in front of the clinic and, clinging to the wall of a neighboring house, gave birth to a son. Lopez said the experience was terribly disturbing. She was entirely alone, because her husband was seeking help. “I didn’t want to deliver like this. It was so ugly and with so much pain.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mrconservative.com ...
isn’t Mexico an OPEC country?
“The rich, the politicians, and their staffs, right? This is the unavoidable future of socialized medicine. “
Actually, government and its employees. The phone company, the electric company and the oil company workers are apparently all government. Those are the only good jobs. My guide worked as a lackey for the electric company. He bought his job by paying a bribe. One of the benefits was free electric. So, although he lived in an un-insulated hovel with single pane jalousie windows he ran the air conditioning 24 hours a day at a temperature where you could hang meat. Doing so was a status symbol.
What was the procedure 100 years ago and no “midwife”???
My husband happened upon a Mexican woman giving birth under a mesquite tree in his south Texas hunting pasture. He went and found a phone, called an ambulance, waited at the gate to meet the ambulance. When he guided the ambulance to the spot the woman was gone. She had disappeared into the brush with her anchor baby.
Some people can’t create or maintain a modern civilization and all its accoutrements, like a hospital. The only way a people can maintain their civilization is by keeping out those that can’t.
This will NEVER happen with 0bamacare; unless you smoke, are over weight, drink Cokeacola... or the staff does not like the cut of your jib... the staff was on state required break as happens in Europe.
Sorry you only have a bronze plan; all the gold and silver plans go first!
Good news; you; are ahead of the iron and lead plans!
Interesting picture...note that the baby’s first contact in this world is by laying in the grass —he’ll be a natural born landscaper.
That’s the hard politically incorrect truth. Either we control immigration or we become the third world crap holes these “new Americans” fled from.
Gee!She should have came to the United States and had the baby free of charge and she would have gotten room and board for the rest of her life.
Depends on the country.
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