Pregnancy Criminalization in the US Is an “Avoidable Human Rights Crisis”
Pregnancy Criminalization in the US Is an “Avoidable Human Rights Crisis”
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Nice phrase that has no meaning. Nobody is going to jail for getting pregnant. Nobody is getting fined for having sex.
Just another new term that the left has come up with to do away with personal responsibility.
Another one is Legal Reproductive Justice Group. WTF is that even about? That is an abortion activist group that wants to make taxpayers fund abortions.
Here's the deal. You do the deed, you deal with the consequences. You have an "oops", then take care of it yourself. I'm not anti-abortion, but I am pro-take care of your own sh#t. There are many places that offer abortion. You might have to travel to get to them, but that isn't the issue of anyone but the couple that did the deed.
You want to build a body count, you know the risks. Take responsibility for your inability to keep you gender specific tools in your pants. Contraceptives work and are generally really cheap or free. Get off your ass and pick them up if you want to partake in the beast with 2 backs.
https://news.yahoo.com/ohio-woman-criminally-charged-miscarriage-043232570.html
Ohio woman criminally charged after a miscarriage
A grand jury in Ohio is weighing whether to indict a woman who had a miscarriage. She was two weeks pregnant when she miscarried at home, after a doctor told her the fetus was no longer viable. Now she’s facing criminal charges for abuse of a corpse and up to a year in prison. Dr. Kavita Patel joins to discuss what this case means in a post Roe v. Wade world.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/idaho-most-extreme-anti-abortion-state-law-restricts-travel-rcna78225
Idaho becomes one of the most extreme anti-abortion states with law restricting travel for...
A bill that prohibits people in Idaho from helping pregnant minors leave the state to obtain abortions became law on Wednesday.
Therein lies the rub.
And, once again, we have an inaccurate headline. Pregnancy has *not* been criminalized. Not a single person in this story has been prosecuted for being pregnant. Nor is this a "human rights crisis."
Three people per year in a country of 300+ million? No matter how heinously those people are treated (and criminal prosecution for actual crimes is certainly not very heinous) 1 out of every 100 million is not a "crisis." There are 4500 pediatric malpractice deaths - with infants being most at risk - every year. (Source: https://www.bmj.com/content/328/7454/1458.3 ). By my math 4500 is a little bit more than 3. You want to look to an avoidable crisis? How about we start there.
Study finds US paediatric medical errors kill 4500 children a year
Medical errors in hospital are responsible for the deaths of nearly 4500 children in the United States every year, says a study examining the effect of lapses in patient safety on children in hospitals throughout the nation ( Pediatrics 2004;113:1741-6). “The bottom line is that none of these events should have happened,” said Dr Marlene R Miller, the study's lead author and director of quality and safety initiatives at the Johns Hopkins...
Are there folks wrongfully prosecuted? Sure. And each time it happens - whether it is for ending a pregnancy or for running from the cops with no actual crime - it is tragic.
But if we want to make something into a huge deal worthy of public "human rights" campaigns, this falls short.
However, I do believe even though small in overall numbers, it should be brought to the public's attention.
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