What does People's Daily Online say about the death of a pregnant woman falling from a fall?

The tragedy of a pregnant woman falling to death in Yulin, Shaanxi, although both parties are still arguing for the "truth", there is no doubt that this will play a certain role in safeguarding the rights and dignity of pregnant women in China. A landmark public event.

No matter how many disputes there are, both parties agree that this woman, who suffered from severe prenatal pain for at least 8 hours, requested a caesarean section several times, and the doctor also believed that she had indications for a caesarean section, but due to various reasons The reason could not be realized, and in the end he was so painful that he jumped away and took away his son who was still in the belly.

This was supposed to be a day to welcome a new baby, but instead it became a day of mourning for a mother and her son. How painful!

What is worth observing is the direction of public opinion on this incident.

One of the focuses is on the severe pain of childbirth and the lack of painless delivery in China.

Forgive me for not being able to bear calling this poor expectant mother "Mou" any more. In the eyes of her biological mother, her daughter is "educated, has a diploma, has a cheerful personality, and is not a confused child." She has been working as a tutor and "has never seen her angry." So, let's call her Teacher Xiao Ma - because of the death of Teacher Xiao Ma, many women have recalled their unbearable childbirth experiences, "unbearable pain" and "just want to die"... Dancer Duncan had long since described, “No matter how one describes the Spanish Inquisition, no woman who has given birth to a child has ever been afraid of it… This invisible and cruel god never rests, never stops, and shows no mercy. Catching me in its claws, tearing at my bones and nerves.” Alas!

In the not-too-distant past, the Chinese believed that giving birth to a child was a "gate of hell"; Westerners have also read from the Bible since they were young, "You will suffer a lot when you give birth to children." . We often see in movies and TV dramas the heartbreaking and crying scenes of giving birth. Even for the royal family, being able to keep mother and child safe is a luxury and happiness. Nowadays, medical science has advanced, but due to the one-child policy and people's desire for eugenics and upbringing, giving birth to a child is still a major event for every family, but the safety of mother and child is the norm. In the 60 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the maternal mortality rate has dropped from 1,500 per 100,000 before liberation to 23.2 per 100,000 in 2013, which is a cause for celebration.

However, peace does not mean no pain. Crying and crying is still the norm when giving birth to children in China. At a time when China's economy has become the second largest in the world, Chinese pregnant women do not receive corresponding treatment. When painless childbirth has become popular in developed countries, and the United Kingdom and other countries enacted legislation to make it mandatory nearly 70 years ago, we only learned after the death of Teacher Xiao Ma that although there are no technical problems, it has been used in our country for ten or twenty years. However, the painless delivery rate is still less than 10%. The reason why it is difficult to promote is that hospitals with low fees are not motivated, and there is a relative lack of anesthetists...

We can do any number of difficult things in the world. Is this difficulty really difficult to solve? In the final analysis, it is a fundamental disregard for women's rights and dignity. In many rural areas, girls are still regarded as reproductive tools. Who would really pay attention to the suffering of "tools"? Even in cities, and even among mainstream people, "If you are a woman, you will have children. Are you squeamish? Just bear with it and it will be over." Similar arguments may not be made public, but they are also quite common. Will people who hold this argument bother themselves with "little things" like painless childbirth?

After this incident, many women on the Internet asked men to experience the pain of childbirth for themselves - such an appeal itself implies women's lack of confidence: it is related to the right to speak and decision-making in the field of maternal and childbirth policy Right, "they" seem to have no right to deeply intervene, and need to seek help from men for experience, understanding and help. In almost half of the fields of national interest, the female perspective is extremely missing. Hundreds of millions of women can only rely on their strong will. Some of them have to endure what Duan Tao, a well-known obstetrician, calls "unbearable" because of their physical constitution or other reasons. ", "the highest level of pain" to welcome the birth of new life. In fact, China's high cesarean section rate is mostly the result of "fear of pain".

Is all this really normal?

Simone de Beauvoir once talked about girls giving birth in her book "The Second Sex", "They are stoic, tolerant, demanding, majestic, rebellious, and slow. , nervous”, while men disagree with this, and even become the subject of many jokes. In her observation, “the pain of childbirth is necessary for the manifestation of maternal instinct...The fact is that some men feel that the burden on women is reduced. anger".

Controversies involving gender are often very sensitive. A casual judgment of "feminism" will wipe out all kinds of vain efforts. Teacher Xiao Ma went through 8 hours of tolerance, nervousness and "resistance". She used her life to tell our society that we should no longer ignore the pain of pregnant women and please respect them from the perspective of law and policy.

I feel sorry for my parents, who worked so hard to give birth to me. No matter how awesome a person is, he has to go through that deep birth canal before he can cry loudly. Please join hands to face up to and protect the legitimate rights and interests of pregnant women, so that they have the right to decide their own medical plan and the right to choose to enjoy painless delivery...

The hospital can advise you on which method to use There are many ways to give birth, but the decision-making power is still in the hands of the mother. I just hope that tragedy will never happen again.