Terrifying Precedent: Woman to Be Tried for Murder for Giving Birth to Stillborn When She Was 16

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85. Why a Wisconsin woman was jailed:

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She was 14 weeks pregnant and thought she had done the right thing when, at a prenatal checkup, she described a pill addiction the previous year and said she had ended it on her own - something later verified by a urine test. But now an apparently skeptical doctor and a social worker accused her of endangering her unborn child because she had refused to accept their order to start on an anti-addiction drug.

Ms. Beltran, 28, was taken in shackles before a family court commissioner who, she says, brushed aside her pleas for a lawyer. To her astonishment, the court had already appointed a legal guardian for the fetus.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101677037

A few links to things are being done to women right now in this country. In every case, the words of the women mean nothing when Teabigots are allowed by their voting block or non-voter to rule over us:

Iowa Woman Jailed for Thinking about an Abortion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x640964

Pregnant Woman Attempts Suicide; Survives; Now In Jail Facing Feticide And Murder Charges

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x888606

At What Point in Pregnancy Does a Woman's Personhood End?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022608078

This one matches Ralph Reed's position as posted this week:

Judge won't let woman divorce while she's pregnant (WA State)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1112992

Here's one that has been discussed openly by Teabigots. This is not a new view, period.

Quindlen: How Much Jail Time for Women Who Have Abortions?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=217x5771

Pregnant? That Might Get You Arrested

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125514262

Tea Party: Impregnated Rape Victims Who Abort Should Be Jailed As Long As Their Rapist (VIDEO)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023285834

This is exactly what the Teabigots want to do here in the USA:

This is what it looks like when a country makes abortion illegal--El Salvador

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021200076

The GOP in MI just nominated a candidate who says gays and abortion are responsible for tornadoes, etc. The Teabigots are going to make being born female a curse and constantly suspected of being a criminal.

This isn't just any 'government overreach.' It is government under GOP and Teabigot rule. Obama and Democrats are clearly against the kind of laws and the execution of laws in the way the GOP and their Teabigots are using them to dehumanize women.

Some may think those stories can be interpreted as proper government administration or make excuses for them. This was not the case until the personhood movement made it an issue, state by state. Or nationally, as the Teabigot Rand Paul has tried to hold up nearly every budget under Obama by insisting that such laws be nationalized, and a national RTW law to end unions and his other schemes.

I hope that those who care about women will vote them out of office, but it appears the Koch propaganda will have them staying home and the Teabigots will continue to drag this country into fascism on the way to the stone age. What I find particularly galling is the silence or 'why don't you just shut up and let the boys talk' attitude about this everywhere.

Not saying you. That's a generic statement.