Let this sink in. In AMERICA, women are being denied health care. In America,

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7. I have been reading for months now that Republicans want to establish fetal personhood as law.

I did not realize until reading an article in The Guardian this morning that several states have already passed these laws, mostly the backward Southern states. These laws can be used against women for any miscarriage, natural or not, or taking drugs prescribed by a doctor, or even an accidental fall that causes a miscarriage. They have already been used to lock women away, and they’re used primarily against poor women who cannot afford attorneys and most likely black women given the states that have enacted such laws. Fetal personhood laws mean that the fetus takes precedence over the woman’s rights. She has none, the fetus has all.

I do not understand why US media is ignoring these laws. I find out more about what is happening in the US from a British publication than in US media. This whole article is well worth reading.

“Those laws are part of what’s known as “the fetal personhood movement”, a push to legally redefine fetuses as people, with all the rights and protections such a definition entails. The idea that fetuses are people is at the core of anti-abortion logic, but it also has the potential to rewrite wide swathes of US law. Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, for example, allows people to claim fetuses as dependents when they file their state taxes.

If fetuses count as people, then their rights can compete with or even outstrip those of women carrying them. At least 11 states have added fetal personhood into their state constitutions or laws, while another five states have added fetal personhood specifically into their criminal codes, the Pregnancy Justice report found. Thirty-eight states have “fetal homicide” laws on the books, which make it a separate crime to cause a pregnancy loss.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/19/steep-rise-criminalizing-pregnant-people-during-roe-report