I just (Saturday, April 5, 9:39 PM) got a notification from NBC News that says “A Georgia woman was arrested days after experiencing a miscarriage - part of a growing trend of criminalizing pregnancy, experts say”.
A few days ago you were talking about how this story has gotten no national media coverage.
Perhaps District Attorney Patrick Warren, should provide specific instructions on how to deal with miscarriages, seeing as how he is so GD experienced, as a MAN, and is an expert in these types of bodily experiences, because be’d actually suffered thru them!!!!
These kind of comments from so called intelligent men PISS ME OFF!!! Perhaps his broad personal knowledge of what a female goes thru might possibly give him intelligent to instruct females in how to use sanitary products!!!
I'm in complete agreement about the confusion around, and subsequent dangers of having a "viability standards". Initially, everyone understood viability as the point where a fetus could exist outside of the womb, then I noticed it being appropriated by the anti's, specifically AAC's , who urged women to come in for Ultrasounds to insure the "viability" of their pregnancies. People have numerous and complicated reasons for having later abortions, not the least of which is delays caused by amassing the money and other resources necessary to travel out of state for care. And the later the abortion the more expensive it is, involving more time to raise money for the procedure and more time away from family and work. A vicious circle.
I hope Ms. Chandler Scott will use the money we sent her to pursue a lawsuit against the authorities that arrested and persecuted her. It may prevent them from trying to prosecute her in the future. And just in case case, the governor of Georgia should grant her a pre-emptive pardon.
He's a republican, and probably a current clan member, when Stacy Abrams ran against him for gov., he made some remark about how we couldn't have "one of those people in the gov's mansion".
Georgia is quite the place. I lived there for a year a long time ago and it was a shock (as someone from the north). On multiple occasions I was told, why don’t you go back where you came from, yankee. I remember being in Atlanta and people would ask me if I lived “inside or outside of the perimeter”
Atlanta is still my second favorite city in the US after NYC
I anger dialed Patrick Warren and gave him a piece of my mind regarding this case. It’s nice to know that my advocacy work is paying off! I know it wasn’t me but I’m getting very comfortable calling all the people and giving them a piece of my mind!
While I agree dropping the charges is a great thing. However, they never should have been brought in the first place!
I agree with you, her life has been forever changed and the trauma she’s gone thru can never be repaired.
I believe it’s time to pursue charges against those officers who went after this woman for their own agenda.
This is another downside to the over turning of Roe v Wade. It’s turned loose every moron with their own agenda with the blessing of those stupid MF politician who passed the idiotic laws.
On another note as the economy is crashing, notice how folks who couldn’t care less about harms to other people all of a sudden care when it affects their own pocketbooks? I’m extra spicy today 🌶️
Great news. Sadly, they are still benefiting from the PR of it, which seems to be the point. It gives room for people to judge and boy do people love to judge.
Thank you so much for keeping track of all of this. It's infuriating and very disheartening to find ourselves in this position again. But knowledge is power.
SHARE this everywhere! I truly believe that the more people who are 'indifferent' to the abortion issue see the real-life consequences of laws affecting reproductive choice, the more the public will turn against them--and the dirtbag politicians who've weaponized the culture wars for the last 50 years.
REMEMBER: before Roe, it was not 'those careless sluts' who 'murder babies' for 'convenience'--it was our mothers, sisters, and friends, and men's wives and daughters and girlfriends, losing their futures, health, and LIVES in unwanted or toxic pregnancy and septic illegal abortions. Roe was, in fact, a WILDLY popular decision, even among evangelicals--but like vaccines, it's been a victim of its own success. Most people don't remember the horrors before Roe, and why Americans were happy at the decision.
A lot of people thought Roe was weak law. They decided it on 'privacy' because they had Griswold as precedent, they had an appellant, and the entire country was sick to death of women and girls losing their futures, health, and lives in unplanned and toxic pregnancy, and septic illegal abortions. --But there is a MUCH tighter case to be made for the right to abortion on (no) Establishment, Free Exercise, Equal Protection, Freedom from Involuntary Servitude, and Unenumerated Rights.
MY religion has stated, specifically, for 3000 years, that life begins with breath and abortion is NOT 'murder', and is sometimes necessary. A woman of my faith with a problematic pregnancy for any reason makes that decision with her doctor and her religious advisor, on a CASE-SPECIFIC BASIS, according to the process of OUR religious law: there is no 'one size fits all'. So 'fetal personhood', and 'life begins with conception' are theological beliefs that have no place in secular law, and abortion bans violate the free exercise of my religion. Dobbs will fall--eventually. But misogyny is a FEATURE of fascism, not a bug.
Right. Ginsburg argued that grounding abortion rights in the Equal Protection Clause, which guarantees equal treatment under the law, would have been a more solid constitutional basis than the right to privacy, as established in Roe v. Wade…Still no ERA
Could it be that folks don’t want women to be seen as equal human beings? I’d say that’s always been the agenda.
Roe was never enough. You could see Dobbs coming even then. We need to confront and overturn as a matter of law the whole gestational personhood narrative. Under no circumstances should any law observe a woman's pregnancy as anything but a part of her body, to be treated with the same consideration.
I just (Saturday, April 5, 9:39 PM) got a notification from NBC News that says “A Georgia woman was arrested days after experiencing a miscarriage - part of a growing trend of criminalizing pregnancy, experts say”.
A few days ago you were talking about how this story has gotten no national media coverage.
Perhaps District Attorney Patrick Warren, should provide specific instructions on how to deal with miscarriages, seeing as how he is so GD experienced, as a MAN, and is an expert in these types of bodily experiences, because be’d actually suffered thru them!!!!
These kind of comments from so called intelligent men PISS ME OFF!!! Perhaps his broad personal knowledge of what a female goes thru might possibly give him intelligent to instruct females in how to use sanitary products!!!
I'm in complete agreement about the confusion around, and subsequent dangers of having a "viability standards". Initially, everyone understood viability as the point where a fetus could exist outside of the womb, then I noticed it being appropriated by the anti's, specifically AAC's , who urged women to come in for Ultrasounds to insure the "viability" of their pregnancies. People have numerous and complicated reasons for having later abortions, not the least of which is delays caused by amassing the money and other resources necessary to travel out of state for care. And the later the abortion the more expensive it is, involving more time to raise money for the procedure and more time away from family and work. A vicious circle.
I hope Ms. Chandler Scott will use the money we sent her to pursue a lawsuit against the authorities that arrested and persecuted her. It may prevent them from trying to prosecute her in the future. And just in case case, the governor of Georgia should grant her a pre-emptive pardon.
He's a republican, and probably a current clan member, when Stacy Abrams ran against him for gov., he made some remark about how we couldn't have "one of those people in the gov's mansion".
Georgia is quite the place. I lived there for a year a long time ago and it was a shock (as someone from the north). On multiple occasions I was told, why don’t you go back where you came from, yankee. I remember being in Atlanta and people would ask me if I lived “inside or outside of the perimeter”
Atlanta is still my second favorite city in the US after NYC
Thanks for posting the donation link.
I anger dialed Patrick Warren and gave him a piece of my mind regarding this case. It’s nice to know that my advocacy work is paying off! I know it wasn’t me but I’m getting very comfortable calling all the people and giving them a piece of my mind!
While I agree dropping the charges is a great thing. However, they never should have been brought in the first place!
I agree with you, her life has been forever changed and the trauma she’s gone thru can never be repaired.
I believe it’s time to pursue charges against those officers who went after this woman for their own agenda.
This is another downside to the over turning of Roe v Wade. It’s turned loose every moron with their own agenda with the blessing of those stupid MF politician who passed the idiotic laws.
On another note as the economy is crashing, notice how folks who couldn’t care less about harms to other people all of a sudden care when it affects their own pocketbooks? I’m extra spicy today 🌶️
Great news. Sadly, they are still benefiting from the PR of it, which seems to be the point. It gives room for people to judge and boy do people love to judge.
Had to share this photo of the Old State House in downtown Boston:
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1jqz4kw/god_damn_i_love_this_city/#lightbox
Cases like these prove that it was never about “protecting life.” It has always been about controlling and punishing women.
Thank you so much for keeping track of all of this. It's infuriating and very disheartening to find ourselves in this position again. But knowledge is power.
Omg this makes me so incredibly happy!
SHARE this everywhere! I truly believe that the more people who are 'indifferent' to the abortion issue see the real-life consequences of laws affecting reproductive choice, the more the public will turn against them--and the dirtbag politicians who've weaponized the culture wars for the last 50 years.
REMEMBER: before Roe, it was not 'those careless sluts' who 'murder babies' for 'convenience'--it was our mothers, sisters, and friends, and men's wives and daughters and girlfriends, losing their futures, health, and LIVES in unwanted or toxic pregnancy and septic illegal abortions. Roe was, in fact, a WILDLY popular decision, even among evangelicals--but like vaccines, it's been a victim of its own success. Most people don't remember the horrors before Roe, and why Americans were happy at the decision.
A lot of people thought Roe was weak law. They decided it on 'privacy' because they had Griswold as precedent, they had an appellant, and the entire country was sick to death of women and girls losing their futures, health, and lives in unplanned and toxic pregnancy, and septic illegal abortions. --But there is a MUCH tighter case to be made for the right to abortion on (no) Establishment, Free Exercise, Equal Protection, Freedom from Involuntary Servitude, and Unenumerated Rights.
MY religion has stated, specifically, for 3000 years, that life begins with breath and abortion is NOT 'murder', and is sometimes necessary. A woman of my faith with a problematic pregnancy for any reason makes that decision with her doctor and her religious advisor, on a CASE-SPECIFIC BASIS, according to the process of OUR religious law: there is no 'one size fits all'. So 'fetal personhood', and 'life begins with conception' are theological beliefs that have no place in secular law, and abortion bans violate the free exercise of my religion. Dobbs will fall--eventually. But misogyny is a FEATURE of fascism, not a bug.
Right. Ginsburg argued that grounding abortion rights in the Equal Protection Clause, which guarantees equal treatment under the law, would have been a more solid constitutional basis than the right to privacy, as established in Roe v. Wade…Still no ERA
Could it be that folks don’t want women to be seen as equal human beings? I’d say that’s always been the agenda.
Roe was never enough. You could see Dobbs coming even then. We need to confront and overturn as a matter of law the whole gestational personhood narrative. Under no circumstances should any law observe a woman's pregnancy as anything but a part of her body, to be treated with the same consideration.
One huge good thing
Of course, they had no legal way of doing this. This is basically terrorism.
I hope she can sue this asshole for harassment. I have to believe she’s got a good case.