The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.
To be clear, Texas’s position is consistent… if you understand that the point of Texas’s anti-abortion laws have nothing to do with the protection of women and EVERYTHING to do with controlling women’s bodies. Those in power would prefer women as subservient servants, so denying the protections they supposedly champion when it protects a woman is… pretty much where they want to come out on this.
TL;DR the people championing these laws wanted women controlled. They give zero fucks about fetuses.
Holy shit, I can’t imagine a scenario where the state and prison could have acted any worse. That article goes from bad to worse to nuclear annihilation 😐
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Maybe you should read the article to find out why your content makes zero sense whatsoever. Assuming you know that the president personally fucked this woman over is crazy.
That’s a state prison. State’s rights yeah? Not Biden’s responsibility, not Biden’s problem. Look at the Texas governor if you want to be mad at someone
How come even North Korea and Iran have paid maternity leave but the US, a country that supposedly idolizes mothers, does not?
"So far, the U.S. Supreme Court has skirted the issue. It refused to take up a related case out of Rhode Island in October, and Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the Dobbs ruling that it “is not based on any view about if and when prenatal life is entitled to any of the rights enjoyed after birth.”
Now, Ziegler says, we see Texas arguing against fetal rights when it’s being sued for the death of an unborn child."
And that proves it. Anti abortion laws are only about control. If a fetus can’t have rights of a born person, then having an abortion is not murder. Period end of story. It’s about control and pandering to the forced birth crowd.
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Racism.
Come on, misogyny is definitely part of the ideology of the right, but let’s not act like there aren’t plenty of liberal misogynists - have you ever read a Reddit thread having anything to do with women?
Not everyone is as liberal as people on Reddit like to say it is.
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I wonder how many people she’s witnessed miscarry or go in to early labour and left locked behind bars without medical attention, “just following orders”. Well, in that line of work surely she can appreciate that her colleagues were just following orders too.
*this isn’t a defence of the people who “stopped” her from leaving (without any restraint, and she doesn’t even report being threatened with being fired or anything, just told not to go) or of how she was treated, it’s a display of disgust and a pointing out of the hypocrisy of people who choose to actively oppress others for a living and then act all surprised when they get oppressed themselves by the exact same system.
I would have moved. No one is above your health and wellbeing. I don’t know why she didn’t told them to fuck off
