Bode Miller Attacks Women's Rights; Pregnant woman must obey Baby Daddy orders

[stg81]

Arrogant, nasty spoiled brat Bode Miller is someone I will not be rooting for at Sochi.

Miller had unprotected sex, a "fling", with a woman named Sara McKenna. After she told him she was pregnant and asked him to go with her to the ultrasound, he refused: "U made this choice against my wishes."

After he got his other girlfriend pregnant almost concurrently and she had a miscarriage, he decided he was going to sue McKenna for custody.

McKenna had to leave her job as a firefighter due to the pregnancy. She was accepted into a program at Columbia in NY and planned to leave California.

McKenna gave birth in New York and immediately filed for custody. Legally, New York has jurisdiction when the state is the “home state” of the child in question. However, the New York judge, in a highly unusual decision, returned the case to California. The judge called McKenna’s decision to move to New York “reprehensible,” and her decision to attend Columbia mercenary. She went further to describe her move as an “appropriation of the child while in utero.” As Slate’s Emily Bazelon explained at the time, the judge, “seemed to have it in for McKenna when she sent the case back to the California courts…The judge/referee also overlooked the fact that 'child' in state custody law does not mean unborn child, as in fetus, which is what the 'child' was when McKenna moved east.”

According to this court ruling, in violation of multiple rights, any travel by McKenna would have been prohibited and defined by Miller’s claims. In effect, the precedent meant that a pregnant woman could be legally compelled to stay in her baby daddy’s state against her will.


The family court in California granted primary custody to Miller, who, with his new wife, came to New York, drove to McKenna’s apartment, "took the baby out of my arms, dropped it in a car seat and drove away."

After the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the NYU School of Reproductive Justice Clinic, and other women's rights organizations filed a brief in support of McKenna, a five-judge appeals court in New York reversed the initial New York ruling, declaring, shocking though it may seem to some: “Putative fathers have neither the right nor the ability to restrict a pregnant woman from her constitutionally protected liberty." McKenna now has custody until the next court date, which is today (December 9). The court went on to explain that a woman should not be subjected to what are essentially the whims of a person “with whom she had only a brief romantic relationship.” Imagine that.

http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2013-12-bode-miller-changed-his-mind-and-your-rights-along-w

I'm sick of this Handmaid's Tale shit.

Bode Miller is a complete asshole. Disgusting pig.

[Squinch]

1. "Handmaid's Tale shit" is exactly what it is. Women are being treated

like appliances who are there to incubate babies. The idea that others get to decide what happens to a woman's body, and can decree actions that go against her will when she gets pregnant, is a truly terrifying precedent.

That judge should be run out of town on a rail.

[mercymechap]

2. What a crock.....

the baby belongs with the mother and no one else.....that damn judge must have been a conservative, as only a conservative would come up with actions that go against everything normal. And, I hope he doesn't win anything in the Olympics, the jerk.

[TransitJohn]

4. I hope you mean that particular baby, and not in general

.

[mercymechap]

9. Well, yes,

I said "the baby" and there's only one we're talking about...unfortunately there are mothers that aren't fit to be mothers, but I'm hoping that is the exception, not the rule.

[freshwest]

3. Yes, a disgusting pig and so is his kidnapping 'wife.' This is outrageous crap. n/t

[cinnabonbon]

5. Wow, gross.

[MadrasT]

6. A recent ESPN article says that (horrible) decision was reversed.

In November a New York appellate court reversed the California decision, giving primary custody back to McKenna. So now Samuel -- whom the Millers call Nathaniel in a tribute to Bode's younger brother, who died of a seizure last April -- lives with his mom. But when Miller gets back from Sochi, he and McKenna will share custody for a while as part of a short-term parenting agreement.

http://espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2014/alpine/story/_/id/10397253/five-olympic-medalist-bode-miller-turning-life-espn-magazine

[stg81]

8. good

[treestar]

7. that judge ought to be fired

there's no way NY law supported a decision like that.