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ProfessionalLeftist

(4,982 posts)
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 01:39 PM Jan 2013

"Legitimate rape", et al. It's not the comments that are at issue....

...it's the attitude that women are not human but instead are only breeding cattle. These attitudes won't be changed by lobbyist-funded fancy dinners. They may be covered up better though. Besides unpunished rape, denial of contraceptives and safe abortions and thus forced childbirth (reproductive slavery a la The Handmaid's Tale), pregnant women are being denied their constitutional human rights as well:

A woman in Utah gave birth to twins. When one was stillborn, she was arrested and charged with criminal homicide based on the claim that her decision to delay cesarean surgery was the cause of the stillbirth.

After a hearing that lasted less than a day, a court issued an order requiring a critically-ill pregnant woman in Washington, D.C. to undergo cesarean surgery over her objections. Neither she nor her baby survived.

A judge in Ohio kept a woman imprisoned to prevent her from having an abortion.

A woman in Oregon who did not comply with a doctor’s recommendation to have additional testing for gestational diabetes was subjected to involuntary civil commitment. During her detention, the additional testing was never performed.

A Louisiana woman was charged with murder and spent approximately a year in jail before her counsel was able to show that what was deemed a murder of a fetus or newborn was actually a miscarriage that resulted from medication given to her by a health care provider.

In Texas, a pregnant woman who sometimes smoked marijuana to ease nausea and boost her appetite gave birth to healthy twins. She was arrested for delivery of a controlled substance to a minor.

A doctor in Wisconsin had concerns about a woman’s plans to have her birth attended by a midwife. As a result, a civil court order of protective custody for the woman’s fetus was obtained. The order authorized the sheriff’s department to take the woman into custody, transport her to a hospital, and subject her to involuntary testing and medical treatment.


MORE...

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/01/14/new-study-reveals-impact-post-roe-v-wade-anti-abortion-measures-on-women

In the United States, a zygote is a human being. Corporations are people. But women? Not so much.

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"Legitimate rape", et al. It's not the comments that are at issue.... (Original Post) ProfessionalLeftist Jan 2013 OP
The nuts still think rape is a PROPERTY crime. Odin2005 Jan 2013 #1

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
1. The nuts still think rape is a PROPERTY crime.
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 01:42 PM
Jan 2013

Back in the old days rape was seen as a property crime against a girl's father or a woman's husband. That is why as late as the 70s marital rape was considered and oxymoron.

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