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WhiskeyGrinder

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11. The people you name are already targeted.
Wed May 15, 2019, 04:08 PM
May 2019
Melissa Ann Rowland of Utah was charged with murder after one of her twins was stillborn - because she refused a c-section.: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mom-arrested-after-utah-stillbirth

Purvi Patel of Indiana was sentenced to 20 years in prison for feticide. She said she had a miscarriage, and no traces of any abortifacent were found in her blood work: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/02/it-isnt-justice-for-purvi-patel-to-serve-20-years-in-prison-for-an-abortion

Angela Carder was 27 years old, 26 weeks pregnant, and had cancer. She was forced to undergo a c-section to try to save the pregnancy despite the risk to her health. It failed and Carder died: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/08/opinion/the-fruit-of-angela-carder-s-agony.html

Rennie Gibbs of Mississippi was 16 years old when she delivered a stillborn baby - she was indicted on charges of "depraved heart murder" after accusations that she used drugs: https://www.propublica.org/article/stillborn-child-charge-of-murder-and-disputed-case-law-on-fetal-harm

A woman in Louisiana was jailed on charges of second-degree murder after she went to the hospital for unexplained vaginal bleeding. It was over a year before medical records showed that she had a miscarriage: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/opinion/pregnant-and-no-civil-rights.html?smid=fb-share

Bei Bei Shuai lost her pregnancy after she tried to kill herself - within a half hour a homicide detective was questioning her. She was arrested for murder: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/05/18/153026015/bail-granted-for-indiana-woman-charged-in-attempted-feticide
What do you think? FarPoint May 2019 #1
I'm just wondering how far the GOP has thought this through. ecstatic May 2019 #4
They only think far enough to secure a vote.... FarPoint May 2019 #16
Good possibility they go to jail .... FarPoint May 2019 #17
Not in my state. MineralMan May 2019 #2
Exactly. It will be about where you live, who you know, and how much you make. As usual. Midnight Writer May 2019 #27
There's NO WAY IN HELL! CaliforniaPeggy May 2019 #3
God performs more abortions than anybody, LuvNewcastle May 2019 #5
Samantha Bee has made that point. Collimator May 2019 #6
That's already happened to some women, so, yes. It's time to build solidarity with the communities WhiskeyGrinder May 2019 #7
That really happens in some third world countries Clash City Rocker May 2019 #8
It happens in this country, too. WhiskeyGrinder May 2019 #10
if the laws holds, yes, and women of color will be the primary target DBoon May 2019 #9
The people you name are already targeted. WhiskeyGrinder May 2019 #11
Wow! All of these cases should have been covered non-stop by national news! ecstatic May 2019 #15
This should be its own OP Hekate May 2019 #26
Only poor, minority women. The blonde people will get a pass. Hassler May 2019 #12
I think it has happened in some places already. LiberalFighter May 2019 #13
The Cooch Cops. TheBlackAdder May 2019 #14
The Georgia bill calls for just that according to critics. Eugene May 2019 #18
These new laws are for one purpose SlogginThroughIt May 2019 #19
I believe that they will try to turn abortion into a state's right issue but there's a problem with in2herbs May 2019 #21
that's the idea--at least the threat of it anarch May 2019 #20
10 to 20% of known pregnancies result in miscarriages. There are 4 million applegrove May 2019 #22
I think that may be what Pat Robertson meant when he said that the law went too far Algernon Moncrieff May 2019 #24
Yes and i just saw somewhere that support to end aborts is beteen 20 and 30 percent or so. Not a maj applegrove May 2019 #25
If a woman has an IUD, and is from out of state, and gets in a car wreck in Mobile Algernon Moncrieff May 2019 #23
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