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Podcast: Disabled and pregnant? Good luck finding a doctor
Hearken to this episode of The Instances:
Disabled individuals get pregnant and provides delivery on the similar charges as nondisabled ones. However their outcomes are sometimes far worse — for causes that may’t be defined by anatomical distinction or medical complexity — and fashionable medication has largely turned its again on them.
L.A. Instances reporter Sonja Sharp has skilled the discrimination firsthand, and he or she’s reported on the difficulty as nicely.
Right this moment, she speaks with Dr. Marie Flores, a doctor who makes use of a wheelchair and is attempting to develop into a mom, and Dr. Deborah Krakow, the chair of UCLA’s obstetrics and gynecology division, about how our society treats the intersection of being pregnant and incapacity. She additionally shares her personal story and describes why she sees disabled motherhood as a radical act.
Host: L.A. Instances Metro reporter Sonja Sharp
Friends: Dr. Marie Flores and Dr. Deborah Krakow
Extra studying:
Disabled mothers-to-be face indignity: ‘Do you may have a person? Can you may have intercourse?’
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Three classes from disabled moms