IVF is not fertility care for black women. Fertility care should be holistic and I’m confused as to why we would advocate for harmful and also unethical bio tech that harms black women. Big Fertility ( surrogacy, IVF, IUI) have convinced women that we “deserve” children when we don’t. There have always been the existence of women who were infertile and through ethical medicine and herbalism some of those women could go on to conceive and yes some could not. Women who are infertile or same sex attracted need to know that the instinct to mother can be met in other ways that honor the sacredness of life. Life must not be forced through the medial practices of the capitalistic white patriarchy we claim to want to get “free” from.
As a black woman and birth-worker it’s becoming increasingly concerning the amount of energy we are putting into disrupting and dismantling systems that were never meant for us. We must desist from allopathic medicine as much as we can and listen to the wisdom our body inherently has while also listening to the maternal wisdom from the past. So much to say and unpack but I just want to encourage you to look more into holistic fertility practices that help black women in reclaiming wholeness and I also pose the question is everyone entitled to a baby and at what point does this perceived entitlement become harmful and possibly exploitive?
IVF is not fertility care for black women. Fertility care should be holistic and I’m confused as to why we would advocate for harmful and also unethical bio tech that harms black women. Big Fertility ( surrogacy, IVF, IUI) have convinced women that we “deserve” children when we don’t. There have always been the existence of women who were infertile and through ethical medicine and herbalism some of those women could go on to conceive and yes some could not. Women who are infertile or same sex attracted need to know that the instinct to mother can be met in other ways that honor the sacredness of life. Life must not be forced through the medial practices of the capitalistic white patriarchy we claim to want to get “free” from.
As a black woman and birth-worker it’s becoming increasingly concerning the amount of energy we are putting into disrupting and dismantling systems that were never meant for us. We must desist from allopathic medicine as much as we can and listen to the wisdom our body inherently has while also listening to the maternal wisdom from the past. So much to say and unpack but I just want to encourage you to look more into holistic fertility practices that help black women in reclaiming wholeness and I also pose the question is everyone entitled to a baby and at what point does this perceived entitlement become harmful and possibly exploitive?