Editor’s Note: This essay is part of the CNN Opinion series “America’s Future Starts Now,” in which people share how they have been affected by the biggest issues facing the nation and experts offer their proposed solutions. Dr. Mae-Lan Winchester, an obstetrician-gynecologist and specialist in maternal-fetal medicine, is an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health. The views expressed here are her own. They do not represent the opinions of Case Western Reserve University.
The lives of the pregnant patients who walk into my Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, are never simple.
Because I specialize in diagnosing and treating high-risk patients, the people who come to me are already facing something they couldn’t possibly have planned for. I think about them constantly: The mother carrying twins, faced with aborting one fetus or risk losing both. A scared 21 year old with a life-threatening infection that developed two days after her water broke too early.
I live in a state where the realities […]
“…Republican MAGAts, both media like Fox, and politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene are literally tearing this country apart.”
Doesn’t the “t” in MAGA also draw us apart?
My sense is that the USA needs peacemakers at every level if we are to avoid the worst of the social and environmental destruction that is coming.
The “t” makes it a noun.
The law shouldn’t get involved unless you commit provable battery on your patients.
We have politicians on both sides practicing medicine without a license. This issue is only one of many.