5/23/2023 0 Comments Dead end in norvelt series![]() ![]() Birch admits she and the team of writers were specific about including the added layer of race into these conversations, due to the real statistics that back them. ![]() Birch’s gory and sometimes brutal reality of the birthing experience pushes the “nice” and “clean” twin sister to reckon with herself and the question of her own morality. As people arriving into that space, hoping to have a baby or being pregnant and there being complications or having a birth - because it’s unpredictable - how can you possibly be ready for all the potential costs that might arise? Costs to your body, and also financially.”Īt several points throughout “Dead Ringers,” Beverly is forced to confront the evil truths about the “miracle” of birthing. And coupled with the fact that it’s one of the most expensive places in the world to have a baby, I find that staggering that it’s a business and a system. “The thing that I found consistently shocking, and still find shocking, is how high that maternal mortality rate is. “I don’t know that I was ever thinking about it as a statement,” said Birch. Beverly also goes through a fever-dream sequence in which she’s confronted with the barbaric beginnings of obstetrics, and bears witness to an enslaved Black woman being tortured by a white male gynecologist (with instruments still used). On the show, a Black mother dies shortly after giving birth because doctors refused to validate her concerns, another Black mother deals with a case of postpartum depression so severe that it leaves her wanting to give away her baby. ![]()
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