“Why Didn’t They Save Me?” The Unhelped and the Unmoved

A tale of two traumas and the violence of indifference

A content note: This one gets into misogynistic, obstetric, and other forms of violence.

When Jack Teich pulled up at his home in Long Island, on a rainy night in November, 1974, he was surprised to see headlights behind him: his was a quiet residential street on which he rarely saw other vehicles. Two men got out of the car, wearing ski masks, holding …