I appreciate @neel_shah posting this. Let me tell you how & why it’s important to reject false narratives, now 2 of my 3 grants that are due before 5/5/2020 are out with collaborators. A thread. @doccrearperry had time yesterday, I’ll take this baton today. 1/7 https://twitter.com/neel_shah/status/1254462206919532549
See, I’ve spent all of my clinical career caring for people with the capacity for pregnancy. I outline my development during the AIDS epidemic in the 80s here. And much of my clinical work has been across the reproductive spectrum, oncology, abortion, birth. 2/7 https://twitter.com/mclemoremr/status/1243286346573078528
Working in abortion care has taught me many lessons that are applicable to current pandemic, which is why it’s easy for me to dismiss the perspectives of others for what they are: uninformed or under informed. We’ve been on the periphery of healthcare so have some insights 3/7
Had we made fact based arguments on side of people w/capacity for pregnancy, instead of focusing on outcomes of pregnancy (i.e., abortion, adoption, infertility tx or birth) we could have found common ground
b/c all pregnancies end & regardless of how, folx deserve good care 4/7
Additionally, if abortion can be reframed from “pro-life” and “pro-choice” both of which are deeply flawed & inaccurate then we never had to pit healthcare workers against patients when trying to mitigate risk for birthing people who need hospital birth support during Covid19 5/7
So you can miss me w/any distractions that engages in binary thinking & limits what’s possible when a novice understanding of complex issues is at hand & you don’t have accountability structures that help you see beyond what you think is possible. 6/7
Dichotomies rule out the impossible. And that’s what you should have learned from the Kobayashi Maru and Captain Kirk. And you should have learned that this could all be different and we have to make it so from Captain Picard. /END
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