Elon Musk has long claimed culture will collapse unless we increase the birth rate. Meanwhile, the Doge team reduces billions to funding for pregnant and nursing mothers and their children.
WHen Sevonna Brown learned that the quasi -government official of Elon Musk (“Doge”) had ordered that the payment stopped at $ 2 million plus Nih Grant for the mother’s community health care, began ringing the phones. He had to stop businesses immediately, and there was a lot of work in progress that had to stop.
Women on their way to appointment for lactation should turn around. Home visits that help pregnant women and women after childbirth with blood pressure and suicidal ideation will be canceled. Domestic violence shelters for pregnant women will probably close, she said, and food and formula traditions to young mothers and their babies would stop.
The service network for mothers and children Brown had spent over a decade building reached a crash. “The world is literally dark,” he said.
Brown is the founder of Medical Sanctuary and a cooperative member at the Restore Forward in Brooklyn, New York. Her work that supports people through pregnancy and new parental responsibility was partially funded through the New York Center for Excellence, a Community Center for Research and Care for the Mother who lost support after Doge canceled more than $ 10 billion.
“We cannot claim that they are interested in births, while consuming the systems that make pregnancy, birth and parental care safely.”
Given the endless warnings of Musk that births is an existential threat to culture, the abrupt learning of Doge’s maternal health services is at the same time ironic and just what one would expect from an effort whose errors can exceed it, hard to verifyaccomplishments. A Father to about 14 childrenhe said he is thinking ‘Culture will collapseIf women do not have more babies. Has offered his sperm to acquaintances and blamed birth control to reduce pregnancy rates. ‘He must be considered a national state of emergency to have children’, Wrote last summer.
Musk has donation Millions of dollars to finance the fertility research. But at this point, she has taken much more than pregnant women and young mothers than she gave. In February, the Doge threatened A seven -year NIH initiative of $ 168 million to improve mother’s health across the state of Michigan. The suspended over $ 27 million In grants to women’s health centers, was fired Federal workers run programs for waiting for mothers in Medicaid and canceled $ 1.6 million in funding for the motherboard and after the birth of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA.
“We cannot claim that they are interested in births, while consuming the systems that make pregnancy, birth and parental care safely,” says Emilie Rodriguez. A medical anthropologist, Doula and co -founder of the Bridge catalog, a group of perinatal healthcare providers, Rodriguez worked with Sevonna Brown at the Center for the Excellence of the Champ Center of Excellence.
The grant of the Champ center that focused on providing care to black women, who – in New York – is nine times more likely to die during childbirth than their white counterparts. “The New York City should be one of the safest parts of the world to give birth-but for too many black and brown women, it is not,” said Victoria St. Clair, a Doula and a member of the community that helped manage the NY-CHAMP grant. “The numbers are painful and the experiences they lived behind are even more.
“Anyone who has a child who has spent these early days of parental care knows the horror of putting your baby in bed and waking up with a Jolt asks:” Is it still breathing? “”
Many of the Doge cuts have been justified as part of an “anti-tired” agenda, which aims to reduce medical care for traditionally degraded populations. “We have a reason that there were words that we had to eliminate from our grants – such as women and black, and without documents, degraded, immigrants,” Rodriguez explained. “It’s not just censorship at stake. It’s deletion,” he said.
Whatever their intention, cuts are likely to aggravate health care for mothers and children of all races and nationality, said Leslie Root, a professor at the University of Colorado and Deputy Principal at the school’s population center. Root emphasized a recently glorified NIH team that, until recently, it provided the long -term study of the Prams Risk Monitoring System (PRAMS). The group conducted scene research on unexpected infants known as SIDS or sudden death syndrome.
“Anyone who has a child who has spent these early days of parental care knows the horror of putting your baby in bed and waking up with a Jolt asks:” Is it still breathing? “”
Donald Trump, like Elon Musk, expressed a desire to help young Americans who want to start a family. ‘I will be known as president of fertilization’, he said Last week, as Doge of Musk Reduce funding at the Health Health Service Office and Health Office, the National Institute of Health and Human Development of NIH and the CDC Department of Reproductive Health.
A recently completely employee from dividing reproductive health described in a set of federal guidelines for the safe use of contraceptives – guidelines necessary to ensure safe pregnancies in women with situations such as diabetes, high blood pressure and ms.
“The guidelines may be the difference between these women who are able to safely start families or not, and in some cases even save their lives,” they said.
Doge cuts have also decimated children’s health programs. Has been terminated Over $ 1 million in a grant funding for the study of children’s behavior in Massachusetts, more than $ 750,000 to treat children with respiratory disease at Seattle Hospital, almost 200,000 for the treatment of children with children and hospital children.12 billion Funding for state -owned vaccination programs. (Child vaccinations have saved about 154 million lives in the past 50 years.)
People affected by Doge cuts may not recognize the names of these offices, Sevonna Brown said, but will feel their impact almost immediately. “The average pregnant mother sitting in a shelter doesn’t know what HHS is, but she knows what her advantage is … knows what the Medicaid card is.” (BREAK helps Pregnant women and young mothers have access to food and formula and Medicaid provides Health Insurance to more than 70 million Americans each year.)
Doge has been priced as a way to reduce fat from the federal government, saving valuable cash. But Dr. Uma Reddy, who led NY-Champ’s work, said the interventions made by her team probably saved taxpayers’ money. By helping women avoid mental and cardiovascular health crises to avoid expensive care under the street and save their women and children from unnecessary pain.
In recent days, Doge cuts have even classified the Conservatives and supporters of the Trump administration agenda. Fox News commentator Jesse Waters recently complained to viewers From his primary appearance that his mother was upset about the cuts and that his sister – an employee at Johns Hopkins University – could be personally influenced by them.
Meanwhile, Sevonna Brown’s health care providers are trying to get the relaxed. “We get food from our refrigerators, we share, we make mutual help, we have to show up for people, we can’t just leave people … We can’t leave a mom who can’t be hospitalized or breastfeeding without a formula.
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