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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they)
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SFFH Author/Critic/Neurodiverse Human. BSFA & British Fantasy Award Winner. Shoreline of Infinity columnist. GSFWC. SGSAH funded. #StrathLife 2024 stories 'Invitation' (ParSec), 'The Badger' (Gallus) and new SOI column: linktr.ee/ruthejbooth
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To put this into context, even with this visualisation, in 2020 women were still dying at a rate of approx one every two minutes due to complications in pregnancy. (Source: www.who.int/news-room/fa...)

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This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. It’s been very low (~1–3 per 100,000) ever since.
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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they)
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SFFH Author/Critic/Neurodiverse Human. BSFA & British Fantasy Award Winner. Shoreline of Infinity columnist. GSFWC. SGSAH funded. #StrathLife 2024 stories 'Invitation' (ParSec), 'The Badger' (Gallus) and new SOI column: linktr.ee/ruthejbooth
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