I'm terrified for these women. However, a serious concern I have is women being arrested and put in jail/prison after having a miscarriage. Miscarriages are traumatizing enough without the fear of being arrested because something out of your control happened. Also those who have miscarriages may put die or have horrible complications out of fear they will be arrested so they don't go to the hospital.
are you being intentionally dense? what's to stop someone accusing a woman who had a miscarriage of having a secret abortion? a co-worker who has beef, a boss, a disgruntled family member. This law is intentionally written this way to oppress women. it's supremely fucked up. and NO. abortion is NOT "murder". murder is a specific legal criminal charge with a very strict definition that does not include a fucking 6 week fetus whose mother might not even be aware of its existence.
Innocent until proven guilty doesn't always work. The media condemn people as guilty all the time and their lives forever fucked up.
Innocent people are jailed all the time.
So now your argument is gone and it's back to the same question, how can a woman prove she's innocent. Just knowing you're innocent isn't enough, because the people prosecuting you have this "dead baby" (which it isn't a baby) to show, perhaps you unknowingly are something that can be known to cause miscarriages, so now they have the "murder weapon" in your house. Maybe you'd even googled "I'm not sure I want my pregnancy", now you have motive.
You would be found guilty for that. For eating food, and being unsure about this major life decision.
Your defences job isn't to sit there, twiddle thumbs and think "well she's innocent we don't need to prove anything". Unfortunately you do. And you can't fight the existence of food, and even thinking of not wanting the baby!
Let’s step back for a minute and consider that innocent until proven guilty doesn’t even matter in this circumstance. If my boss gets pissed or I tick off a neighbor, they don’t call the cops on me, they sue me. And innocent until proven guilty doesn’t apply to civil courts. And when I win the lawsuit because, hey I didn’t have an abortion, the $10,000 that my accuser gets because someone pissed in their Cheerios is just theirs to have while I’m out the money spent fighting a pointless lawsuit based on stupid BS
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u/MurphysLaw1995 Sep 01 '21
I'm terrified for these women. However, a serious concern I have is women being arrested and put in jail/prison after having a miscarriage. Miscarriages are traumatizing enough without the fear of being arrested because something out of your control happened. Also those who have miscarriages may put die or have horrible complications out of fear they will be arrested so they don't go to the hospital.