US women are being jailed for having miscarriages
www.bbc.com
More and more American women are facing prison for allegedly harming their unborn baby by using drugs.
      • octopus_inkEnglish
        30·
        10 months ago

        Because she’s a meth addict and they’ve worked hard to ensure she’ll be beneath empathy for many folks.

        • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          101·
          10 months ago

          My jizz has a pretty good chance of surviving as a human too if met with an egg, but we don’t charge people for cumming on a woman’s back

            • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              10 months ago

              I meant in general, not outside of the mother, but my point is that we don’t have any obligation to create a human at any stage of the process. And we especially shouldn’t have any obligation to succeed

        • InputZero
          9·
          10 months ago

          Except addiction is a disease, injecting a pregnant person while they sleep is textbook assault. If the disease wasn’t addiction would the mother still be culpable? What if a pregnant person has a disease but the treatment will cause a miscarriage. Just because she is/was an addict doesn’t mean you can just write her off.

    • anon987@lemmy.world
      315·
      10 months ago

      Yup, and look at all the people raging in the comments that clearly didn’t even get past the headline.

      • alphanerd4@lemmy.worldOP
        91·
        10 months ago

        yea or maybe they read far enough down the bbc article to see the string of historical examples. or maybe just the general context of this being published 2 years ago, and the criminalization of miscarriage has gotten way more prevalent. disingenuous af