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Foz Meadows

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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

Irvine, CA
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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

      Twitter, if I may: a personal thread on #RepealTheEighth from a non-Irish person.

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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

      My son was born in the UK in February 2013, four months after the death of Savita Halappanavar. And in the delivery room, as I went through labour, I thought of her over and over.

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    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

      See, I was PROMS with my son. PROMS stands for Premature Rupture of Membranes, and what it means is that your water breaks before you're actually in labour - which means, in turn, that the barrier to infection for both mother and child has gone, putting you both at risk.

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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

      What happened to Savita was a type of PROMS - her water broke super early in the pregnancy, which meant it was in no way going to be viable after that point. Her doctors knew this, but let her die in sepsis over seven days rather than abort her unsaveable foetus.

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        2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          And so I thought of her as I gave birth. Over and over. We didn't tell my grandmother, then in her early 90s, that I was PROMS, because we knew she'd know what it meant, and be frightened - because in her day, when antibiotics were still new, it was a thing that could be fatal.

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        3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          My grandmother died last year. She was an incredible woman - and, though Australian, of Irish Catholic descent. As a young girl, her father ran off, leaving her mother with three daughters to raise alone. One died as a child; my grandmother mourned her all her life.

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        4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          When my grandmother's own mother died, she was a teenage girl, left alone to bring up her younger sister. Her Catholic relatives abandoned them, because of stigma at her father's leaving. It was family friends who took the two of them in.

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        5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          My grandmother's Catholic relatives had almost nothing to do with her after that - until, of course, the moment she announced her intention to marry my Protestant, English-born grandfather. THEN they all came out of the woodwork to scold her. She ignored them and married anyway.

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        6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          I thought of her, when my son was born, just as I thought of Savita Halappanavar. And I thought of them both even more when, less than 24 hours after I was released from hospital, the visiting midwife saw that my newborn son was sick with an infection and sent us straight back.

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        7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          We stayed a week in hospital. My son was put on IV antibiotics, his veins so small it took countless attempts to fit the gauge. He ended up with IVs in his feet. In another era - even a few decades earlier - he might easily have died.

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        8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          My son was born with a true knot in his umbilical cord; this, too, might have killed him. Even in the modern world, one in ten babies with a true knot in their cord dies as a result of it. Such a small thing, a small unsolveable thing, and yet the 'what if' remains frightening.

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        9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          Because I was PROMS, my son contracted an infection and needed antibiotics for a week. Because I was PROMS, I contracted an infection, too. But unlike his, mine wasn't caught at the outset. Mine lingered for weeks of unease and illness until I was wracked with fever.

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        10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          Back to hospital I went, and my son with me. I had my own, vile week on IV antibiotics, sick and feverish and miserable. My temperature was so high, they sat a fan by the bedside and refused to give me anything other than a thin sheet to help keep it low.

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        11. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          And all the while, I thought; modern medicine - antibiotics - is the only thing that stood between both me and my son dying, like so many other women and children have died in history, of simple infections contracted during birth.

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        12. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          That infection I caught? It was never identified. And I've never been fully healthy since. I have a constant baseline inflammatory problem as a result of it, my immune system over-responding constantly to every tiny illness, making me sicker, longer, and weaker in between.

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        13. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          I cannot think about the birth of my child without also thinking about Savita Halappanavar; and though I love my son dearly - though I wouldn't trade him for anything - it's impossible not to remember that carrying him, bearing him, has damaged my health, perhaps forever.

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        14. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          So often, when men talk archly about the sanctity of the unborn, they do so as if there's no cost to pregnancy, not really, because Medicine; or worse still, as though women are wrong to flinch from that cost, because pain in childbirth was Eve's punishment for the apple.

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        15. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          And then they wonder, these men, why the old women they thought conservatives and the middle-aged women they thought matriarchs and the young women they thought docile - they wonder why women, why anyone with a uterus, would dare support abortion.

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        16. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          And the answer comes back, through time and space, in the ancient triple-voice of the Maiden, the Mother, the Crone: because we have dominion over our bodies, not you. Because our lives are formed of wellbeing, not just existence. Because you cannot choose for us.

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        17. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          Because pregnancy and childbirth always, ALWAYS carry the risk of death, of permanent damage or injury, and that MATTERS. Because the choice exists to be made, and removing one option completely doesn't change that - it just means you've chosen for everyone.

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        18. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 26 May 2018

          FIN.

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