What Do We Want? Awareness

“Awareness is the basic requirement of human survival.” This quote was taken from a Quora.com question, “Why is awareness important?”

 

Imagine a world where a cost-effective preventive measure was taken early on in a women’s pregnancy to discover any possible cervical insufficiencies. Imagine that woman being able to have the control and the choice over her own body and pregnancy to take preventative measures like getting a cervical cerclage early on in her pregnancy instead of taking unnecessary risks getting a rescue cerclage when it could already be too late. I did a quick google search to find petitions from women begging their governments to step up and make early cervical checks mandatory. So many of these efforts were abandoned years ago. One small voice can get lost in a crowd. With awareness, we are giving those “small voices” a megaphone. Everyone deserves to be heard. Everyone deserves to have resources and support and options. Every single woman deserves to feel in control of their pregnancy instead of feeling like their body is going to fail them or worse...has failed them and their child. 

This awareness campaign is the first step to letting people who can help know that there is a need. That is one of the reasons why when I started this campaign I turned to a letter campaign. I felt if I could get my story into the right hands, if just one person with a platform would listen and have compassion, then we could change the lives of women around the world. I am that one small voice. This awareness campaign is my megaphone when I ask that we shine a light on this issue. That we bring better resources to women. That we create a network of support for everyone affected by this condition. It’s a battle cry for all those women who have petitioned for answers, for early intervention, to step up and stand with me in this campaign for justice.