{"id":1098,"date":"2007-01-30T20:51:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T00:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2007-01-30T20:51:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T00:51:42","slug":"russian-gynaecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"Russian Gynaecology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Svenska Dagbladet<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svd.se\/dynamiskt\/kultur\/did_14521810.asp\">a review<\/a> of a book about European demography, <em>Barren States,<\/em> in which I found the following anecdote:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>In Russian, mothers are also young: a woman of 27 is considered too old to give birth vaginally, and encouraged to have an abortion, or at least a caesarian section. When one 27-year-old woman insisted on giving birth vaginally and then complained of the pain,  her doctor was outraged: &#8220;Of course it hurts!&#8221;, he said &#8220;It&#8217;s meant to hurt. What does a woman of your age expect? You could have been a almost grandmother by now and instead take it into your head to have a baby! What did you do when you were 20? Ran around and had a good time? It wouldn&#8217;t have hurt so much <em>then.<\/em> But  you women just want to earn money, earn money, and then you complain that it hurts!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard some startling stories of Russian medicine, and misogyny, over the years but this is in a class of its own. God help the internet if the women who post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unfogged.com\">unfogged;<\/a> come across the story: it would be pissing on potassium.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svenska Dagbladet has a review of a book about European demography, Barren States, in which I found the following anecdote: In Russian, mothers are also young: a woman of 27 is considered too old to give birth vaginally, and encouraged &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}