Plasmaball
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. This is a real serious issue. ( not tk's stupid thread that shows zeros flaws at all) We have always questioned how far these type of people would go to get their ways. Well now we have evidence how what they would do. They will arrest women and force medical procedures on them in order to get their ways.
The very fact they scream that they are for smaller government is a lie.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/opinion/pregnant-and-no-civil-rights.html?_r=1
The very fact they scream that they are for smaller government is a lie.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/opinion/pregnant-and-no-civil-rights.html?_r=1
In Iowa, a pregnant woman who fell down a flight of stairs was reported to the police after seeking help at a hospital. She was arrested for “attempted fetal homicide.”
In Utah, a woman gave birth to twins; one was stillborn. Health care providers believed that the stillbirth was the result of the woman’s decision to delay having a cesarean. She was arrested on charges of fetal homicide.
In Louisiana, a woman who went to the hospital for unexplained vaginal bleeding was locked up for over a year on charges of second-degree murder before medical records revealed she had suffered a miscarriage at 11 to 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Florida has had a number of such cases. In one, a woman was held prisoner at a hospital to prevent her from going home while she appeared to be experiencing a miscarriage. She was forced to undergo a cesarean. Neither the detention nor the surgery prevented the pregnancy loss, but they did keep this mother from caring for her two small children at home. While a state court later found the detention unlawful, the opinion suggested that if the hospital had taken her prisoner later in her pregnancy, its actions might have been permissible.
In another case, a woman who had been in labor at home was picked up by a sheriff, strapped down in the back of an ambulance, taken to a hospital, and forced to have a cesarean she did not want. When this mother later protested what had happened, a court concluded that the woman’s personal constitutional rights “clearly did not outweigh the interests of the State of Florida in preserving the life of the unborn child.”