KakariBlue

As for research and what works, California seems to have some of that figured out for maternal mortality.

It's also important to know other terms in this space, pregnancy-related and pregnancy-associated mortality as well as maternal morbidity (towards the end these are defined, above citations).

Agreed, I wanted to share the terms in particular because most people aren't going to understand that maternal mortality is 'death from pregnancy or childbirth or up to 6 weeks post partum directly linked to pregnancy' vs pregnancy-related (stretching out to 1 year) and pregnancy-associated (1 year, but all cause mortality).

This is one of those spaces where the terms do matter and if one is going to use them outside of some generally-accepted definition (for a given community and context, arguably medical to me here) then one needs to be explicit in what they mean or we'll end up speaking past each other and miscommunicating. Given some of the comments so far that may already have happened or OP is stretching terms to sell safety where no evidence exists. I'm not capable of determining with finality what's happening but without a foundation to build from I don't think a constructive discussion is possible.

And none of the previous paragraph is directed at you tick, just using it as an opportunity to expand on my previous comment.

I think, but am without specific research, that if we are looking at the whole of mortality around motherhood (ie expanding to include pregnancy-associated mortality) then post-birth care services may well help reduce p-a mortality (it would surprise me if mental health support didn't reduce it).

Anesthesia risk and infection risk if proper wound care is not followed (and rarely, even when it is). Keloid scarring would be seriously bad news so discuss if you're someone who gets keloids. Potential loss of feeling.

In all, nothing too particular to this type of surgery beyond the location near most people's most valued sense organ.

The ACA and CR are the immediate concern, tune in next week/the week after to hear about the debt ceiling. It's likely that they will all be resolved at once, but it seems everyone is hoping the debt ceiling will be increased without as much fanfare as last time.

I'm interested in Costa's reply of course, but that's my understanding of it at this point.