I developed hospital-related PTSD in recent yrs, and today I was telling my psychiatrist about how terrified I am to go to the hospital for labor/delivery, & he told me I should’ve thought about it before now, and could’ve had an abortion to avoid this.

No, I’m not joking.
I am still shaking like 12 hours later. I can’t believe anyone would say that, but coming from a medical professional ... it’s unconscionable.
I guess now is a good time to point out that psychiatry — while it has done & still does do a lot of good — is a male-dominated field often used to police women’s behavior, and exploited to oppress & silence women in an effort to maintain a male-dominated status quo.
In retrospect ... there were warning signs. This is the same doctor. https://twitter.com/rvawonk/status/1276258682741968903
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