Your Miscarriage Might Land You in Jail
I’m sorry, did I accidentally take a time machine back to??Because this sure as hell feels like a witch trial.
Here’s how gestapo “law” enforcement officials are getting away with this outrageous hunt: By alleging that a woman used drugs during her pregnancy, she can be charged with anything from “chemical endangerment” of a fetus to “depraved heart murder,” even if there’s no way of proving the drug use actually happened. In some cases, states are warping fetal homicide laws intended for third party attackers, like abusive husbands, to go after women suspected of killing their unborn child. If convicted, women tried for these crimes could face life in prison.
And what exactly is the point of this preposterous persecution of women who’ve already had to deal with the tragedy of losing a child? Well, some say the government is using a group “nobody cares about,” i.e., pregnant drug addicts, as scapegoats to muddle the distinction between abortion and murder. It’s something you wouldn’t want to believe could ever happen in this country, but it is happening — just like Alabama and Mississippi are considering voting on “personhood amendments” that would make birth control pills illegal on the basis that life begins the second sperm meets egg, before fertilized eggs even implant themselves in the uterus. Yeah.
About the author Jacqueline Burt
has written for numerous magazines, newspapers and websites. She is easily bored and often tired, so she requires constant entertainment to keep her awake. Dance, Monkey! Dance!
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