A Woman's Worth

There has been a lot of debate around Trump’s statement that paracetamol use during pregnancy might cause autism in children. And as expected, controversy followed.

People immediately chose sides, attacking and defending, fighting to be right.

But while watching all this noise, I couldn’t help but feel how deeply we have failed as a society.

Because no one stopped to ask the real question:

“Why do pregnant women need medication just to get through daily life in the first place?”

If we lived in a society that truly valued women, pregnancy would be honoured, supported, and nurtured.

Mothers to be would be surrounded with care, support and love, not forced to push through exhaustion and pain with pills.

While endless debates continue, we remain here, moving through cycle after cycle, expected to always keep going, no matter what, to do it all, and never rest.

Because sleep is labelled as weakness.

Rest is guilt.

Stillness is shame.

From puberty, through motherhood, and into menopause, women undergo profound physical, emotional, mental and spiritual changes.

These are not flaws to medicate away, but sacred passages of life that should be met with reverence.

Instead, we hand out prescriptions and suppress the symptoms, while ignoring the roots.

We treat women like machines that must keep functioning at all costs, but this design of society has never truly worked for women, at any stage of life.

We forgot our roots.

We forgot our spirituality.

We forgot that motherhood, womanhood, and life itself are not medical conditions to be managed, but sacred experiences to be honoured.

And as our awareness dims day by day, numbed by media, divided by systems of power, designed by men (and women shaped by patriarchy) to compete instead of connect, we quickly drift away from both our divinity and our humanity.

This isn’t really about paracetamol.

It isn’t even about autism.

It is about how quickly we forget the essence of what truly matters.

Instead of asking how to better support women, how to nurture them, allow them to rest, honour their cycles, protect their energy, and embrace their sacred role in creation, we argue endlessly and feed division.

Because in this society, what matters most is not the wellbeing of women, not the wellbeing of mothers, not even the wellbeing of men and children.

What matters most is keeping us divided.

And until we remember our roots, our spirituality, our humanity

Until we begin to design a society that works with us instead of against us...

We will keep numbing, silencing, and medicating the very experiences that once connected us to life itself.

Michela xo