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Sun Jan 25, 2015 at 07:30 AM PST.
When the state claims custody of a fetus, it requires an incubator
by Susan Grigsby
for Daily Kos.
On Thursday, January 22, having failed to win a pardon from the El Salvadoran justice system, a young woman won her freedom after a pardon was granted by El Salvador's Parliamentary Assembly, according to Amnesty International. The young woman, "Guadalupe," has already served seven years of the 30-year jail sentence she received after suffering a miscarriage the state judged to be an abortion.
And so most Americans can return to our everyday lives feeling that justice has been served and being grateful that America is a bastion of human rights, unlike our sovereign neighbors to the south.
Well, they can do so if they choose to ignore the fact that what happened to Guadalupe in El Salvador happens here on a regular basis. American women, in states both red and blue, have been detained, imprisoned, and even forced to undergo unwanted surgery because they have been guilty of being pregnant. In 2006, Julie B. Ehrlich and Lynn M. Paltrow of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) wrote:
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 child.
More:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/25/1359554/-When-the-state-claims-custody-of-a-fetus-it-requires-an-incubator?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29#
marym625
(17,997 posts)Link to Amnesty International petition
A ban on abortion in El Salvador is killing women and girls. Call for the ban to be lifted. http://bit.ly/1CtqZ9t
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)Devaluing women is the true crime.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... for all the injustices they have perpetrated on women since the beginning of time?????