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·
        9 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·
          9 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·
              9 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·
          9 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·
      9 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·
        9 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