Miscarriage or stillborn baby = murder?

Jul 01, 2011 16:16

Outcry in America as pregnant women who lose babies face murder charges
Women's rights campaigners see the creeping criminalisation of pregnant women as a new front in the culture wars over abortion

Quote:Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in ( Read more... )

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savagedamsel10 July 5 2011, 05:50:08 UTC
I'm not going to mince words; the sheer amount of fail going down in the US concerning women's bodily autonomy is terrifying the fuck out of me.

I find it also telling that despite pregnant women often being in heightened danger from other people's actions, all these cases are about blaming women. What else is new?

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