WHAT.

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Pregnant Women Who Lose Babies Face Criminal Charges In Mississippi, Alabama

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/01/256823/pregnant-women-criminal-charges/


effing hell.

Comments

[girlpearl]

This is by no means limited to the south...

Kansas, South Dakota, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri... I could go on. Even the linked article mentions 38 states with "fetal homicide" laws... hardly limited to the southern US.

What really kills me is defunding Planned Parenthood. What a great way to reduce abortions--make birth control inaccessible! SIGH.

[tucuxi.livejournal.com]

That's the thing: this isn't (entirely) about preserving the life of an unborn child: it's making it impossible for women to have sex outside of marriage without really potentially traumatizing legal and/or emotional consequences.

Basically, we're stepping backwards to before birth control existed in the first place, when guys can fuck whoever they want with no consequences, and women have to worry about getting knocked up any time they have sex.

Part of me thinks this is too cynical. I wish I could believe it.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

What really kills me is defunding Planned Parenthood.

Republicans. Logic optional.