This year, the Georgia legislature considered a bill that would require women to prove their miscarriages “occurred naturally” and weren’t secret abortions. In a similar vein, the Guardian reports that states including Mississippi and Alabama are charging dozens of women with murder or other serious crimes who have miscarried or had stillbirths:
Across the US more and more prosecutions are being brought that seek to turn pregnant women into criminals.[...]
In Alabama at least 40 cases have been brought under the state’s “chemical endangerment” law. Introduced in 2006, the statute was designed to protect children whose parents were cooking methamphetamine in the home and thus putting their children at risk from inhaling the fumes. Amanda Kimbrough is one of the women who have been ensnared as a result of the law being applied in a wholly different way.[...]
The baby was delivered by caesarean section prematurely in April 2008 and died 19 minutes after birth. Six months later Kimbrough was arrested at home and charged with “chemical endangerment” of her unborn child on the grounds that she had taken drugs during the pregnancy – a claim she has denied.
“That shocked me, it really did,” Kimbrough said. “I had lost a child, that was enough.”
Just enough to make one sick.. One might ask how does the Republicans wants? Easy answer if they target women of poor means, those whom society don’t care about, (mostly African-American, Asian, Latino) You charge them with a felony, they get convicted, they can’t vote. This is just another way to limit who can and can’t vote in this Country.
this is very odd too,
Other prosecutors are twisting laws designed to protect pregnant women and their unborn children into attacks on child bearers themselves. At least 38 states have introduced fetal homicide laws that were intended to be used against violent attacks by third parties like abusive male partners. But in South Carolina, only one case has been brought against a man for assaulting a pregnant woman, while up to 300 women have been arrested under the law, according to the National Advocates for Pregnant Women.
Women must start reading the news and watching what laws these jerks are trying to pass in their state, This commenters says it best,
The fact these lawmakers have been able to proceed with any of these laws shows how women are not paying attention to what is really important in life. Women outnumber men within the population of the US so this should not be happening! It's time women get a clue and stand united for the rights of all women and get involved because this shows our future as women and the welfare of our children depends on it. – Rebecca White.
So our future prison gangs will be made up with women who’s only crime that they lost a child in birth.. So will the state take care of these women’s other children once they throw her in jail..
I can only hope that there is a lawyer out there that will take this cause all the way to the Supreme Court of the US..
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