Pregnant women have been arrested and jailed in South Carolina, New Mexico, Arizona, Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, North Dakota and New Hampshire, among other states, based on the claim that pregnant women can be considered child abusers even before they have given birth.
Women targeted for these arrests are usually those with untreated drug or alcohol problems.
Other women have also been arrested for endangering the fetus by not getting to the hospital quickly enough on the day of delivery and by not following doctor's advice to get bed rest. One woman who suffered a stillbirth was arrested for murder based on the claim that by exercising her right to medical decision-making and postponing a Caesarean section, she caused the death of her
Authorities claim that the arrests are made to protect the fetus/embryo from harm that might possibly be done by the pregnant woman if left to her own devices. Since they admittedly have no way to protect a fetus dependent upon a womb, the owner of that womb must be incarcerated to protect the fetus. See how they work that? They claim that the state has an interest in protecting the lives of the unborn, wherever those unborn happen to be. According to an amicus brief filed in a Mississippi case by the National Women's Law Center (NWLC): A pregnant woman in Wyoming was charged with felony child abuse for drinking alcohol, for example, and in Wisconsin, a sixteen-year-old was held in detention throughout her pregnancy based on her tendency ‘to be on the run’ and ‘lack of motivation or ability to seek medical care. Melissa Ann Rowland was charged with murder for refusing to submit to a cesarean section.
The most draconian of these invasions of a woman's privacy and her body have occurred in those states that most fiercely cling to the doctrine of small government. These are states whose citizens are furious at Michelle Obama's display of dictatorial nanny state powers by encouraging children to eat their vegetables.
In Maryland, Kari Parsons was seven months pregnant when a drug test, required under her probation for an earlier shoplifting charge, came back positive. Instead of being released as others are in the same situation, Parsons was sent to jail to protect her unborn fetus. Within three weeks, Parsons delivered her son alone in a jail cell, despite her pleas for help and the pleas of other inmates to the guards:
Instead, guards took her out of a holding area with other inmates--who had helped to time her contractions--and put her in a cell by herself. A few hours later, Parsons gave birth completely alone, without health care or support of any kind. According to press reports, although completely healthy when he was born, Parsons' son soon developed an infection due to the unsanitary conditions of his birth.
A few days before, Parsons had been transported to a local hospital with labor pains in shackles. The shackling of pregnant women is banned by treaty and international law. But, according to NAPW, who reported this story, there are only two states, Illinois and California, that have laws preventing it.
no there is no war on women what would they call it genocide? they raise all hell about unborn fetuses to the point on murdering anyone involved from the Dr. to the mother and who knows maybe mothers still carrying the child, after birth they are nowhere to be found while republicans take away any care they might get before and after isn't that killing the kid when you deny it food or pre natal care and leave the mother to her devices as the article says it's them that are leaving her but to their devices like threatening laws, closing clinics, denying health care and food stamps and WIC.
who are the real criminals who should be locked up and charged with murdering a kid???
