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redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2010-02-27 02:35 pm
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I Don't Want To Remember This

 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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[identity profile] fairest1.livejournal.com 2010-02-27 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Making miscarriages a crime won't actually affect the rate, but it will traumatize a lot of women who genuinely wanted to be mothers as every detail of their diet and behaviour for the previous six months or so is reviewed for any sign that they can be blamed for it.

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly. And it might even CAUSE miscarriages if the women are stressing about the possibility of getting arrested if they lose the baby.

[identity profile] fairest1.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
The only way this could possibly be fair is if the father can be charged for not making every effort possible to ensure the mother is in prime gestation mode -- she can't very well rub her own feet, or go for midnight ice cream and folic acid runs in her condition, can she?

Actually, that'd be just as shitty to the supportive fathers who are just as traumatized. Hmm.

Something that is in their control: Ensuring that every hospital provides top-of-the-line prenatal care for everyone, and free delivery. Which they are actively fighting.

[identity profile] qualapec.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Something that is in their control: Ensuring that every hospital provides top-of-the-line prenatal care for everyone, and free delivery. Which they are actively fighting.

This. To the sky!

It's a conundrum isn't it?

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I don't think making the law MORE cruel is the answer... but it's so unfair on a gender level I almost wish they would. You can bet if they had, all these men would be oh so hurt and outraged about it.

Something that is in their control: Ensuring that every hospital provides top-of-the-line prenatal care for everyone, and free delivery. Which they are actively fighting.

I know. It's so clear it's not about helping women but about punishing them.
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