Prosecutors discuss criminal charges for a miscarriage

[kenny]

Make it stop!

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/health/miscarriage-criminal-charges

 

[Avondale]

Someone should tell those people dystopias are meant for books and movies, not for living out real life power trip fantasies.

 

[Matata]

Some folks are trying so very hard to make us vassals of our vessels. If medical and scientific research funding hadn't been cut to the nubbins maybe artificial uterus technology could become common practice freeing women from prosecution for things beyond their control.

 

[Bron357]

Yay, a positive at last for post menopausal women, you won’t be going to jail for your uterus.

 

[Calliecake]

Some folks are trying so very hard to make us vassals of our vessels.

There is also the story in news regarding the woman who was declared brain dead when she was 9 weeks pregnant. She has been kept on life support for over 100 days and counting because she was pregnant. Due to Georgias strict abortion laws she cannot legally be taken off life support until the fetus can be delivered. Her family has not been allowed to make any medical decisions regarding this woman. Nine weeks pregnant isn’t even close to being viable. The articles I’ve read stated the fetus has fluid on the brain and may not even survive. This is an example of a young woman reduced to being an incubator. The state of Georgia will not care about this fetus at all once it is born.

It’s an awful time to be a woman of child bearing age in some states in the United States.

 

[HGar]

There is also the story in news regarding the woman who was declared brain dead when she was 9 weeks pregnant. She has been kept on life support for over 100 days and counting because she was pregnant.

This has even made the news in Australia. What a barbaric and inhumane situation for the woman and her family to be made undergo. She is just an incubator with no rights whatsoever.

 

[Calliecake]

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@HGar, I’m surprised this story made Australia news. The woman hadn’t even reached 9 weeks into the pregnancy. Georgia law prevents woman from having an abortion after 6 weeks. Her family was given no choice in any of these decisions.

It was reported 4 days ago that Louisiana legislators objected to adding rape, in cases where the child was under the age of 17 and impregnated as a result of a sexual offense, to their current abortion laws. There is currently a 9 year old child who is pregnant in Louisiana. Louisiana lawmakers stated the pregnancy is in God’s hands. A 9 year old is forced to carry a pregnancy to term.

What rational person thinks a 9 year old is physically and emotionally equipped to handle a pregnancy and raise a child?
This 9 year old child has also been reduced to an incubator. If I lived in one of these backward states I would move. All woman in this country should be fighting for the rights of woman and girls…. and yet here we are.

 

[kenny]

... There is currently a 9 year old child who is pregnant in Louisiana. Louisiana lawmakers stated the pregnancy is in God’s hands. ...

Uhm ... a pregnancy is not in hands of ANYTHING but a uterus.
In this case, the uterus of a 9-yr old, for F's sake!
What friggkin idiots!!!!!

But of of course Glob is innocent because I'm sure when the 9 yr old got pregnant """""Glob"""""" was on a coffee break, surfing the Internet, like when that Holocaust thingie happened.

Because, ya know, only GOOD things come from God.
Bad stuff only comes from us (wretched sinners) or their (also made-up and agreed-with) so-called Satan.

Why, oh why, are religions even legal?!?

 

[Calliecake]

I can’t imagine anyone thinking any of this is ok…. Obviously people do think this ok. We keep electing people who are fine with all of this. It makes me feel sick.

 

[Avondale]

I’m surprised this story made Australia news.

This story made world news. The world was appalled just as much as you were.

 

[Bonfire]

Dystopian. We are a small step away from this patriarchy deciding it’s ok to impregnate/assault women/girls against their will and force them to carry to term. What we thought was nightmarish fiction is turning into reality.
The laws have turned inhumane.

 

[Lookinagain]

I can’t imagine anyone thinking any of this is ok…. Obviously people do think this ok. We keep electing people who are fine with all of this. It makes me feel sick.

Well, not all of us. I am so grateful that I live in a sane state. If I didn't, I'd move too.

 

[Calliecake]

Dystopian. We are a small step away from this patriarchy deciding it’s ok to impregnate/assault women/girls against their will and force them to carry to term. What we thought was nightmarish fiction is turning into reality.
The laws have turned inhumane.

TRIGGER WARNING

It’s scary as hell and very well could become our reality. Women are already being forced to carry to term in some states in cases of rape or incest. They seem to enjoy watching this cruelty unfold. It’s disgusting.

 

[Gloria27]

Uhm ... a pregnancy is not in hands of ANYTHING but a uterus.
In this case, the uterus of a 9-yr old, for F's sake!
What friggkin idiots!!!!!

But of of course Glob is innocent because I'm sure when the 9 yr old got pregnant """""Glob"""""" was on a coffee break, surfing the Internet, like when that Holocaust thingie happened.

Because, ya know, only GOOD things come from God.
Bad stuff only comes from us (wretched sinners) or their (also made-up and agreed-with) so-called Satan.

Why, oh why, are religions even legal?!?

Because freedom of religion is freedom of thought and conscience, and it is a basic human right.

Just like YOU have the right not to believe in God, somebody else has the right to believe whatever the heck they want. Not to mention, there's been plenty of times in recent history when the right to religion was taken away, along with other rights, it usually happens with communist regimes, go figure!

 

[Matata]

All woman in this country should be fighting f or the rights of woman and girls…. and yet here we are.

Here we are again. Women fought for the right to vote, for the right to abortions, to own property and much more and they won and now we're seeing the clock turning back to the good old days preferred by the patriarchy.

 

[Lookinagain]

Don't be offended, but I tried to fact check this, because I knew that 1971 was early for some of these rights. This is from "Snopes" so you would have to decide if it is reliable or not. But I do know some of this is true, from personal experience.

In 1971 a woman could not:

1. Get a Credit Card in her own name – it wasn't until 1974 that a law forced credit card companies to issue cards to women without their husband's signature.

2. Be guaranteed that they wouldn't be unceremoniously fired for the offense of getting pregnant – that changed with the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of *1978*!

3. Serve on a jury - It varied by state (Utah deemed women fit for jury duty way back in 1879), but the main reason women were kept out of jury pools was that they were considered the center of the home, which was their primary responsibility as caregivers. They were also thought to be too fragile to hear the grisly details of crimes and too sympathetic by nature to be able to remain objective about those accused of offenses. In 1961, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Florida law that exempted women from serving on juries. It wasn't until 1973 that women could serve on juries in all 50 states.

Skipped #4 because you didn't list it but it was "serving on the front lines in the military".

5. Get an Ivy League education - Yale and Princeton didn't accept female students until 1969. Harvard didn't admit women until 1977 (when it merged with the all-female Radcliffe College). Brown (which merged with women's college Pembroke), Dartmouth and Columbia did not offer admission to women until 1971, 1972 and 1981, respectively. Other case-specific instances allowed some women to take certain classes at Ivy League institutions (such as Barnard women taking classes at Columbia), but, by and large, women in the '60s who harbored Ivy League dreams had to put them on hold.

6. Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment. Indeed the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for any legal action was in 1977!

7. Decide not to have sex if their husband wanted to – spousal rape wasn't criminalized in all 50 states until 1993.

8. Obtain health insurance at the same monetary rate as a man. Sex discrimination wasn't outlawed in health insurance until 2010 and today many, including sitting elected officials at the Federal level, feel women don't mind paying a little more. Again, that date was 2010.

9. The birth control pill: Issues like reproductive freedom and a woman's right to decide when and whether to have children were only just beginning to be openly discussed in the 1960s. In 1957, the FDA approved of the birth control pill but only for "severe menstrual distress." In 1960, the pill was approved for use as a contraceptive. Even so, the pill was illegal in some states and could be prescribed only to married women for purposes of family planning, and not all pharmacies stocked it. Some of those opposed said oral contraceptives were "immoral, promoted prostitution and were tantamount to abortion." It wasn't until several years later that birth control was approved for use by all women, regardless of marital status. In short, birth control meant a woman could complete her education, enter the work force and plan her own life.

 

[Calliecake]

I’m not offended at all @Lookinagain. Please don’t ever worry about offending me. Thank you for clarifying all these points. I’ve asked to have my post removed.