I’m a nurse-midwife with a PhD who believes women shouldn’t vanish quietly from the record.

I’ve been a midwife for a decade, a nurse for twice that. I know death is part of life. But when I lost a colleague — and later a patient — to deaths that should never have happened, I stopped looking away.

I’ve been called to remember people my whole life. This is remembrance as resistance – refusing to let these women be reduced to a statistic or a footnote.

Does that make you uncomfortable? It should. The fact that in 2025, women are still dying of the same causes that killed women in 1825? That’s not just history repeating itself — that’s neglect.

Numbers won’t remember them. But we will.