Imprisoned for Miscarriage: A Young Mexican Woman Gets 23 Years for Losing Her Baby

[SheilaT]

1. When I see stuff like this I think that the very best thing would be to

castrate all men a puberty.

News flash: women do not get pregnant without the assistance of some male.

I recognize that a miscarriage can easily happen without a guy's help, but . . . . well you can guess where I'm headed.

Okay, I really am not that man-hating.

But I also recommend the book Unwind by Neal Shusterman. In a near future USA, life is protected from conception to age 13. Then, from 13 to 18 it's possible to retroactively "abort" an unwanted child, although it's done through a process called "unwinding" which salvages every single part of the body for other use. Creepy and very good.

One interesting side note, not particularly developped in the novel, is that as a consequence of the unwinding, a lot of medical research has fallen completely by the wayside, as spare parts are readily available. Hearts, lungs, livers, etc. There's been a complete loss of other kinds of cures or treatments. That's a very, very small part of the book, but caught my attention.

Where birth control is forbidden, and abortions are not possible, you get situations like Romania under Ceausescu, where thousands of unwanted babies were abandoned to government warehouses, I mean orphanages.

Miscarriages happen. So do abortions, despite the rhetoric of the anti-choice people in this country who would have you believe that almost no one ever had one before Roe v. Wade.