Pregant and not planning an abortion? The anti-womenists are after you, too.

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How is this specifically anti women?

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last time i check men are physically incapable of even becoming pregnant.

So there's that.

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How does this play out? Based on the belief that he had an obligation to give a fetus a chance for life, a judge in Washington, D.C., ordered a critically ill 27-year-old woman who was 26 weeks pregnant to undergo a cesarean section, which he understood might kill her. Neither the woman nor her baby survived.

In Iowa, a pregnant woman who fell down a flight of stairs was reported to the police after seeking help at a hospital. She was arrested for “attempted fetal homicide.”

In Utah, a woman gave birth to twins; one was stillborn. Health care providers believed that the stillbirth was the result of the woman’s decision to delay having a cesarean. She was arrested on charges of fetal homicide.

In Louisiana, a woman who went to the hospital for unexplained vaginal bleeding was locked up for over a year on charges of second-degree murder before medical records revealed she had suffered a miscarriage at 11 to 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Florida has had a number of such cases. In one, a woman was held prisoner at a hospital to prevent her from going home while she appeared to be experiencing a miscarriage. She was forced to undergo a cesarean. Neither the detention nor the surgery prevented the pregnancy loss, but they did keep this mother from caring for her two small children at home. While a state court later found the detention unlawful, the opinion suggested that if the hospital had taken her prisoner later in her pregnancy, its actions might have been permissible.

In another case, a woman who had been in labor at home was picked up by a sheriff, strapped down in the back of an ambulance, taken to a hospital, and forced to have a cesarean she did not want. When this mother later protested what had happened, a court concluded that the woman’s personal constitutional rights “clearly did not outweigh the interests of the State of Florida in preserving the life of the unborn child.”

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All these references to several incidents and only the writers side of the story in those cases are in the opinion piece..... Not even a link or cite of news articles on the incidents......

Hmmmm, color me skeptical.

Did this women's behavior cause the miscarriage? Like drug use.

a couple things

sometimes people make bad decisions in courts, that doesn't mean what happened here means the GOP is evil when it comes to abortions.

This opinion article is very bias. We don't know the backstory to many of these stories

I think the most important thing this shows is that there is a value people put on the life of a fetus. Neglecting your body when pregnant is a serious issue.

It's just like the double standard that exists in California and i think other states as well.

Murder a women who is pregnant it is double homicide

Use instruments to go inside the women and kill the fetus in her womb, completely legal, and sometimes funded by the state.

In one instance the fetus is a living human being deserving of rights if you kill a women who is pregnant they also say you killed the fetus inside and call it murder. But if you purposefully kill the fetus and no the mother it is not homicide. that is logically inconsistent.

IF this is accurate (which is an open question), it's a shameful example of government dictating the healthcare choices of citizens. If TUba believes that's wrong, all I can say is "Welcome to the dark side!"

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I call bull shite.

It's an opinion piece written by two HIGHLY biased feminists. No evidence or background is presented in the op-ed.

What's this the name of this "Louisiana woman"? Why was she charged with 2nd degree murder? Where was she held when she was "locked up for over a year?" Do you seriously believe that every woman who goes to her doctor with unexplained vaginal bleeding ends up being charged with murder? If not, why was THIS woman "locked up?"

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I kige this. It should have been all over the local news here if true.

It almost sounds like the source is one of those chain emails or Facebook posts people forward without validating.

I can see a second degree murder charge if she gave birth to a live baby and killed it, but I don't see any remotely competent doctor mistaking a first-trimester miscarriage for a full term delivery.

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If not, why was THIS woman "locked up?"

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Yea OP left out some important deets:

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In Louisiana, Michelle Marie Greenup, a twenty-six-year-old African American woman, went to a hospital complaining of bleeding and stomach pain. Doctors suspected that she had recently given birth and contacted law enforcement authorities.

After repeated police interrogations, Greenup “confessed” that the baby was born alive and it died because she had failed to provide it with proper care.

Greenup was charged with second-degree murder and incarcerated. Eventually counsel for Greenup obtained her medical records, which revealed that the fetus could not have been older than between eleven to fifteen weeks and that prior to the miscarriage Greenup had been given Depo-Provera, a contraceptive injection that may cause a miscarriage if administered to a woman who is already pregnant.

Greenup was finally released, but only after she agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor violation of a public health law that regulates disposal of human remains. There is no indication that the human remains law was intended to apply to pregnant women confronted with a miscarriage.16

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Yea OP left out some important deets:

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Thank you

Sounds like the real issue on this one isn't a concerted effort to pick on women--it's an example of a police interrogation producing a false confession which happens more often than a lot of people would like to admit.

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Greenup “confessed” that the baby was born alive and it died because she had failed to provide it with proper care.

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If this had really happened, murder would have been the appropriate charge.

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prior to the miscarriage Greenup had been given Depo-Provera, a contraceptive injection that may cause a miscarriage if administered to a woman who is already pregnant.

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You would know better than I would so I won't be offended if you correct me, but this sounds like malpractice. How hard is it to administer a pregnancy test before administering Depo? That sounds like it could be extremely dangerous for the patient.

LOL. This thread blew up as OP bull shite. ST is such an idiot