{"id":6689,"date":"2009-03-02T02:04:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T07:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:36:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:36:37","slug":"differences-in-an-english-and-spanish-version-of-a-kaiser-pamphlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/02\/differences-in-an-english-and-spanish-version-of-a-kaiser-pamphlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences in an English and Spanish Version of a Kaiser Pamphlet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth C. sent in an English and Spanish version of a pamphlet for pregnant women from Kaiser. Here they are:<\/p>\n

\"03-0271\"\"03-027copy\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Translation (by member blogger Jeffrey):<\/p>\n

A healthy pregnancy and care of your baby<\/strong><\/p>\n

You are going to have a baby!<\/p>\n

We want to help you with your pregnancy, and therefore we invite you to the following classes:<\/p>\n

1) Series of prenatal information. Information about labor, birth, and care for your baby, breast feeding, taking care of you after labor, and your recovery.<\/p>\n

2) Take a look at the hospital.\u00a0 Make an appointment with us to see the facilities. Please register for these classes by the fourth month of your pregnancy.<\/p>\n

3) Tubal sterilization. Includes all that you need to know if you do not want to have more children. Take this course by the fifth or sixth month of your pregnancy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice the difference?<\/p>\n

The English version of this pamphlet lists a series of options for pregnant women (“our classes include”), including Lamaze classes and classes on tubal sterilization.<\/p>\n

The Spanish version says here are the three things we’d like you to do (“we invite you to”): prenatal info, hospital tour, and tubal sterilization.<\/p>\n

In sociology, we call this targeted anti-natalism. Targeted anti-natalism is an effort to reduce the reproduction of certain populations and not others.<\/p>\n

UPDATE! <\/strong><\/span>Socorro Serrano, representing Kaiser, posted a reply in our comments thread:<\/p>\n

Greetings everyone: The initial posting on this topic is incorrect. Any suggestion that there was an intention to coerce Spanish-speaking women to take a tubal sterilization class is patently not true.<\/p>\n

As bloggers Elena, Jaya, and Nora Ann have pointed out – This class is listed on both the English and Spanish flyers. And whether we say in English \u201cOur classes include,\u201d or in Spanish \u201cle invitamos a las siguientes clases (we invite you to the following classes),\u201d our goal is to provide information for a \u201cHealthy Pregnancy & Baby Care,\u201d or \u201cUn embarazo saludable y cuidado del beb\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, please note that the hospital tour and free English and Spanish-language classes cover the same curriculum, including childbirth preparation (parto) and breast-feeding (lactancia materna). There has been no interest from Spanish-dominant parents for Lamaze classes, but if this changes, we would be happy to add this to our schedule of offerings.<\/p>\n

Providing health care to our members in the language they prefer and in a manner that is respectful and culturally responsive is a core value for Kaiser Permanente. That is why your input and that of the communities we serve is so very important to us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth C. sent in an English and Spanish version of a pamphlet for pregnant women from Kaiser. Here they are: \u00a0 Translation (by member blogger Jeffrey): A healthy pregnancy and care of your baby You are going to have a baby! We want to help you with your pregnancy, and therefore we invite you to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,23384,285,1754],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-latinos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31333,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions\/31333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}