Gathered Birth

We are not okay.

Social determinants of health are things like income, access to school, access to healthy food, discrimination, environment, etc. They matter enormously.

Source: worldhealthorganization,


Post reads: “Research has found that the social determinants of health may impact health status more than lifestyle and healthcare. It’s time to stop judging people for their illnesses, and to start judging the society that failed them.”

Oklahoma is following in Texas’s wake by introducing a law that allows citizens to sue people suspected of receiving, providing, or somehow facilitating an abortion at any gestational age.
Regardless of how you feel about abortions, THIS is not the way.
*This didn’t just happen in 1692. This is how most witch accusations went and go down, including in present times.
Photo of the Salem Witch Trials Memorial
Posts read: In 1692*, you could bring someone to court because you had a dream they were a witch. In 2022, you can bring someone to court because you have a hunch that they had an abortion. When you visit the sites of the Salem Witch Trials, you hear a constant mournful muttering among the visitors: “How awful.” “Can you imagine?” “How could this happen?” It is awful. Yes, I can imagine. This is how.