I Don't Want To Remember This

[redbrunja]

 Utah criminalizes miscarriage.

I have no words.

Beyond commenting on how desperate someone must be to pay someone to beat her, and how horrible it must be to have no other options. ($175 is cheaper than an abortion).

Also, how craven it is to beat a pregnant seventeen year for money.

I just... I am just horrified about this whole situation.

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[iapetusneume.livejournal.com]

When I saw that link, I saw red. Because all I could think of was my neighbor who had a miscarriage several months ago. She and her husband were ready to try for a second child (their first is 4 years old), and she was in her first trimester. I asked her how she and the baby were doing, when she started crying. She had had the miscarriage the day before.

You know, even when a woman is doing everything right and wants the baby, she can still have a miscarriage. It's part of nature, and it's most likely to happen in the first trimester. I think it is criminal to try to make a law where "some cases" would be murder, because it leaves way too much gray area for people to play around in and hurt others.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I know. They are punishing women at a time when they need sympathy and compassion. It's sickening.

I think it is criminal to try to make a law where "some cases" would be murder, because it leaves way too much gray area for people to play around in and hurt others.


Exactly. It's blatantly an attempt to punish women who are not behaving in exactly the way conservatives wish them to, i.e. they are actually living their own lives.