Bode Miller …Hurt Pregnant Women's Rights #PIG

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Arrogant, nasty spoiled brat Bode Miller is someone I will not be rooting for at Sochi.

Miller had unprotected sex, a "fling", with a woman named Sara McKenna. After she told him she was pregnant and asked him to go with her to the ultrasound, he refused: "U made this choice against my wishes."

After he got his other girlfriend pregnant almost concurrently and she had a miscarriage, he decided he was going to sue McKenna for custody.

McKenna had to leave her job as a firefighter due to the pregnancy. She was accepted into a program at Columbia in NY and planned to leave California.

McKenna gave birth in New York and immediately filed for custody. Legally, New York has jurisdiction when the state is the “home state” of the child in question. However, the New York judge, in a highly unusual decision, returned the case to California. The judge called McKenna’s decision to move to New York “reprehensible,” and her decision to attend Columbia mercenary. She went further to describe her move as an “appropriation of the child while in utero.” As Slate’s Emily Bazelon explained at the time, the judge, “seemed to have it in for McKenna when she sent the case back to the California courts…The judge/referee also overlooked the fact that 'child' in state custody law does not mean unborn child, as in fetus, which is what the 'child' was when McKenna moved east.”

According to this court ruling, in violation of multiple rights, any travel by McKenna would have been prohibited and defined by Miller’s claims. In effect, the precedent meant that a pregnant woman could be legally compelled to stay in her baby daddy’s state against her will.


The family court in California granted primary custody to Miller, who, with his new wife, came to New York, drove to McKenna’s apartment, "took the baby out of my arms, dropped it in a car seat and drove away."

After the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the NYU School of Reproductive Justice Clinic, and other women's rights organizations filed a brief in support of McKenna, a five-judge appeals court in New York reversed the initial New York ruling, declaring, shocking though it may seem to some: “Putative fathers have neither the right nor the ability to restrict a pregnant woman from her constitutionally protected liberty." McKenna now has custody until the next court date, which is today (December 9). The court went on to explain that a woman should not be subjected to what are essentially the whims of a person “with whom she had only a brief romantic relationship.” Imagine that.

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I'm sick of this Handmaid's Tale shit.

Bode Miller is a complete asshole. Disgusting pig.

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1. wtf? How was he not laughed out of court?

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2. The American Taliban judge agreed with his misogynist views

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8. And the judge who sent the case to California,was a female.

I wonder if she is a mother?

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3. yeah, that was totally piggish. sigh. I'm a big skiing fan but

I just can't root for the fuckwad.

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4. update

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bode-miller-ex-girlfriend-reach-custody-agreement-on-son/

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5. "Manhattan Family Court Referee Fiordaliza Rodriguez" sounds like a POS.

Manhattan Family Court Referee Fiordaliza Rodriguez sent the case back to California in May, calling McKenna's move "irresponsible" and "reprehensible" and suggesting it was motivated by the generally longer extent of child support payments in New York than in California.

A California court late this summer awarded temporary custody of the boy to Miller.

Women's advocates said McKenna had been penalized by the New York judge's decision, which they said would wrongly let fathers-to-be dictate where pregnant women could live.

A New York appellate court overturned the ruling, leading to a Nov. 25 court date that put the boy in McKenna's care for the last two weeks.

Rodriguez told the parents on Monday she was pleased to see them cooperating with each other.

The boy was not in court.

"Lucky" little SamNate. Or NateSam.

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6. What's really sick is the woman who married Bode Miller. Not long after she had the miscarriage she

tweeted or put something on Facebook basically saying that Bode was going to get "sam for her and that they would raise him". I also think Bode wanted her to have an abortion. Bode and his wife seem like two disturbed people. The info that was made public in the past was really chilling.

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7. I was *just* thinking of the new bride and her role in all of this.

I wasn't aware of what she shared on social media. And there's no way I'd be calling that beautiful little boy something other than what his birth mother named him. Right there, Bode and I would be having issues.

This case just baffles me. Fling, get pregnant, father wants abortion, father refuses to participate in prenatal care, mother attempts to better herself/provide for her child through golden opportunity at Columbia... and she's being punished for it? I just hope they're not screwing up the poor kid.

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9. you are right. She is also a POS, trying to take another woman's baby

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10. definitely Handmaid's Tale shit. Despicable.