Thursday, September 26, 2024

Abortion prevents child abuse and neglect by substance using mothers. Really!

Absurd coming from an elite university!

Women are called "pregnant people"! Disgusting gender ideology!

Substance using women ought to seek help or should be helped before they become pregnant. Why not adoption instead of abortion?

"At least 210 women were charged with pregnancy-related crimes since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022—more than in any other 12-month period since 1973, Pregnancy Justice reports; in most of the cases, women were accused not of violating abortion bans, but of child abuse, neglect, or fetus endangerment. Newsweek"

"... While state actors have used various justifications for criminalizing pregnancy, the overwhelming majority of cases rely on substance use allegations, usually as a basis for charging pregnant people with criminal child neglect or endangerment. With substance use and pregnancy as an entry point, prosecutors have employed fetal personhood to argue that a wide range of criminal laws should be interpreted to reach the context of pregnancy. More than half of states have laws that require reporting to family regulation authorities related to people’s use of alcohol or drugs during pregnancy and/or define alcohol or drug use during pregnancy as civil child abuse or neglect. ..."

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The Rise of Pregnancy Criminalization: A Pregnancy Justice Report "From 2006 to the 2022 reversal of Roe, we've documented nearly 1,400 cases of pregnancy-related criminalization across the U.S. State actors — including police, prosecutors, healthcare workers, family regulation workers, and judges — have deprived pregnant people [???] of virtually every constitutional right in the name of protecting "unborn life." The cases show that pregnancy outcomes other than abortion, including birth and pregnancy loss, are far more likely to result in criminalization."

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