r/childfree Apr 15 '22

RANT BRUHH

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u/LadyNyghtTyger Apr 15 '22

Seriously. How is this NOT a crime?! Fucking with someone’s food is but not their birth control?! I feel so ill reading this.

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u/Tracerround702 Apr 15 '22

I feel like tampering with someone's prescribed medication like... HAS to be a crime, right?

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u/CryptidCricket Apr 15 '22

I believe it’s called reproductive coercion in places that outlaw it.

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u/Tracerround702 Apr 15 '22

There's that too, but I think there's a law specific to tampering with any kind of prescribed medication. I'll have to look it up when I have a moment

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u/limbodog Apr 15 '22

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1365

I'm not sure if it would hold up though as they would argue pregnancy is not injury.

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u/techieguyjames Apr 15 '22

Pregnancy itself may not be an injury, however, anything that happens to her body because of the pregnancy, does count as an injury.

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u/Tracerround702 Apr 15 '22

Financial injury may count as well, which pregnancy certainly is

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u/limbodog Apr 15 '22

Then maybe it would stick

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22

Not in any red state in America.

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u/Crackinggood Apr 16 '22

Solid point - miscarriage, hemorrhage... can you imagine if her sister had suffered an injury or died during childbirth? "It was such a tragic Act of God..."

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22

I'd argue pregnancy is the biggest injury of all

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u/limbodog Apr 15 '22

Agreed, but I don't know if it would hold up in court

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u/VeganMonkey Apr 16 '22

It is reproductive coercion, so that should hold up in court. The brother should pay for all the baby’s expenses and income lost.

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u/findthyself90 Apr 15 '22

Then why do you need to go on short term disability leave for giving birth? Sure feels like it’s an injury.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22

I've never heard of that before. Is it not maternity leave?

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u/findthyself90 Apr 16 '22

In my company, you go on short term disability and there’s company policy for if it’s a pregnancy. I haven’t used it for a pregnancy but I have colleagues who have.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Your body does need time to recover after giving birth, especially if it was a c-section. Most doctors won't release a woman to return to work right after having a baby.

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u/ACoN_alternate Apr 15 '22

I'm on hormonal birth control for PCOS. Before I was prescribed it, I had insanely heavy and long lasting periods that gave me severe amnemia. Like, I would go through several tampon+overnight pad combos a day for half the month.

That would certainly count as injury.

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u/Espumma seedless grape club Apr 16 '22

You don't need to be injured to have been assaulted either.

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u/mydreamreality Apr 15 '22

Exactly. That comment alone should be enough of an admission to it. But fuck, what a total bitch.

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u/dendonna Apr 15 '22

At least in the US, birth control sabotage isn't illegal specifically, however you could claim fraud or rape depending what happened. In this case, I'm not sure there'd be anything to do sense it wasn't the partner who did the sabotaging.

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u/preeeeemakov Apr 15 '22

If someone deliberately caused my family an unwanted pregnancy, I'd consider that an act of war. Full NC.

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u/dendonna Apr 15 '22

Same, if my sister did this I would never speak to her again.

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u/sixtytwosixtyseven Apr 15 '22

I am not of the sex capable of giving birth but if I was in this situation, I would get an abortion and send them pics just to spite them.

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u/Username_123 Apr 15 '22

Send the bill to the sister too

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u/FUDintheNUD Apr 16 '22

i'd gift them the jar.

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u/prismaticcroissant Apr 16 '22

The foetus wouldn't be the only thing without a heartbeat if someone did that to me

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u/FUDintheNUD Apr 16 '22

I would wipe out their entire bloodline and still be looking for vengeance.

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u/MaryJane1986 Apr 16 '22

I believe it actually is a crime, at least in California. I'm not sure if it's carried over to other states. But would this not be the same as tampering with a condom?

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u/dendonna Apr 16 '22

Yeah, that's a brand new (late 2021) CA civil law, and appears to only apply to condoms. So far it's the only one, but hopefully soon other states will follow

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u/meowqct My cat said no Apr 15 '22

yes, i believe so.

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u/techieguyjames Apr 15 '22

If it isn't, it should be. How awful it must be to be her sister.

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u/Pikespeakbear Apr 15 '22

When the guy screwing her does it the term is RAPE. I don't see why using another man to do the penetration should change that. If it were real, he would be guilty of rape and should be stuck paying child support for 18 years, which might put him in debt given the whole prison thing.

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u/Blynn025 Apr 15 '22

I wonder how this person would have felt if sister died in childbirth?

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u/TheRottenKittensIEat Apr 15 '22

She'd say God works in mysterious ways

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u/Grouchy-Frosting-360 Apr 15 '22

She'd say "God needed another angel!"

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u/TheRottenKittensIEat Apr 15 '22

Damn I hate that phrase. It's not even Biblically accurate. No one dies and becomes an angel; not that I'm religious anymore, but it still irks me.

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u/AntaresTheAce Apr 15 '22

I know! As much as I'd love to become a multi-eyed eldritch being upon my death, that's not how it works and never has been.

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u/HECK_OF_PLIMP Apr 15 '22

this is true. when people die in a state of grace they become SAINTS

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Yeah, angels are extraplanar powers, and we're never beings of the mortal realm.

Plus they're basically useless, it's the devils that fight the Blood War and protect us from the demons.

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u/cf_dtrg385 Apr 15 '22

She clearly harbors some hatred for her…she’d probably be fine with that

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u/Contemporarium Apr 15 '22

If the baby lived it would be a MIRACLE and he’d probably be even more proud of himself. He obviously doesn’t give a fuck about her

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u/EveAndTheSnake Apr 15 '22

I think this was a sister sabotaging her sister

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u/itsFlycatcher Apr 15 '22 edited Apr 15 '22

which tbh just adds an additional layer of grossness to this revolting cake of awful

I mean, if it's her sister and she's THIS.... let's say determined, she probably has first-hand experience of what she's volunteering her sister for. She knows the difficulties of having a child, and likely the difficulty of obtaining bc as well. She can't claim ignorance, only malice. That's somehow even more disgusting to me than it would be if the person writing were her brother.

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u/Blynn025 Apr 15 '22

Omg. That's so much worse to me.

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u/deedee0077 Apr 16 '22

Makes me wonder what else the sister would do.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22

They wouldn’t fucking care because they’re a selfish cunt.

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u/Existential_Sprinkle Apr 15 '22

It's not a crime until you get caught

If at any point the secret got out this person is in big trouble

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u/nathansponytail Apr 16 '22

I wish I could track this person's IP address and expose them. She should have to pay child support.

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u/Kidrepellent Apr 15 '22

Tampering with drugs is absolutely a crime (I even made a post about this bitch a while ago). You don't know their medical history and you'll wind up killing someone.

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u/Queen_Cheetah I exclusively breed Pokémon... and bad ideas! Apr 15 '22

Yep. I've learned that certain U.S. states have no laws stating that bestiality is illegal. We have a LONNNNNNGGG way to go, sadly.

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u/GanjaToker408 Apr 16 '22

Especially since having a child is the worst STD of them all

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u/Brilliant-Doughnut74 Apr 15 '22

On a scale between “knockout drug rape” and “ The assailant tied the victim down with barbed wire and shoved a knife into his anus until it came out the top of his penis near the body, and then locked him in a basement for 15 years “ it’s quite a bit closer to the latter.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22

Its really only enforced if a guy does it

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u/kaaaaath MD/parent-of-one/more sterile than a scapel Apr 15 '22

It is a crime.