I'm confused. Is the thinking that because they used the language of the law rather than citing the statute, that the case would not be impacted an injunction? What am I missing because I know it's something.
I had to wait a day to read this. I was afraid that there was no one involved but police tracking pregnant women which is certainly what Idaho wants to do. This sounds like parents losing control of a nearly adult child to less than honorable people and then weaponized law enforcement. Teenagers are often vulnerable and lack life skills to get out of these situations. I am sure there is more to this story but it is disturbing that they used cell phone data to track her to the abortion clinic area. This could happen to any of us. Our phones are an electronic diary. How very sad and scary all around. We are rapidly losing our rights to extremists. I live in North Carolina and watch the horror unfolding every day.
How horrible and sad. Also amazing (in a sick way) how police can somehow coordinate an orchestrated effort to gather evidence to criminalize people in a desperate situation, yet demonstrate so much incompetence (or even feigned incompetence) when it serves the states interest to subjugate the vulnerable.
This story…everything about it breaks my heart. It’s also Handmaid’s Tale level of scary.
I also just read about the (Republican) Secretary of State in Ohio purging over 20K voters from the rolls. As a former Ohioan I’m so angry I can barely see straight. They are the most foul cheaters…
It's a sad story but the important thing may be that prosecutors found a case where they can apply the text about abortion kidnapping and the public may accept it.
Oh, dear God. I live in Idaho. The worst is coming true. How long until women of childbearing age have to show proof they're not pregnant before they cross the state line? If that sounds outlandish, I'd bet the rent that some of our state legislators are considering something like that.
I've been talking about this shit for years. I share Abortion Everyday on social media. No one I know seems to care??? I feel like I'm screaming into the void.
What a cluster. And honestly this stuff could happen in certain branches of my family! Looks like this girl was in a bad situation any way you look at it. I’m fine if you want to charge them with providing meth to the girl but this kidnapping stuff is going to be one slippery slope.
This is precisely, and sadly, the sort of hypocritical and messy situation where, as others have said, nobody wins except those who want to push this as "trafficking." It certainly leaves a bad taste, and smell. Thanks for relating this because it really puts the lie to the idea that these laws are protecting anyone's rights to have and keep a child that was actually wanted.
"likely to go after people who won't garner much sympathy from the public" - exactly. In a way that seems like a good thing, if it means they know they can't actually enforce these laws any way they want. Except that it's designed to be a slippery slope, testing boundaries in different communities across the country. We can't let it go unchallenged but we also have to be careful which cases we highlight to promote our cause, because it's not just about right or wrong, but whether we can be persuasive and get and keep people listening to us. In this case I think the message should be the clear demonstration of the need for abortion care here. Focus on asking why KB should be made to be a mother, rather than on the other two.
I'm confused. Is the thinking that because they used the language of the law rather than citing the statute, that the case would not be impacted an injunction? What am I missing because I know it's something.
I had to wait a day to read this. I was afraid that there was no one involved but police tracking pregnant women which is certainly what Idaho wants to do. This sounds like parents losing control of a nearly adult child to less than honorable people and then weaponized law enforcement. Teenagers are often vulnerable and lack life skills to get out of these situations. I am sure there is more to this story but it is disturbing that they used cell phone data to track her to the abortion clinic area. This could happen to any of us. Our phones are an electronic diary. How very sad and scary all around. We are rapidly losing our rights to extremists. I live in North Carolina and watch the horror unfolding every day.
How horrible and sad. Also amazing (in a sick way) how police can somehow coordinate an orchestrated effort to gather evidence to criminalize people in a desperate situation, yet demonstrate so much incompetence (or even feigned incompetence) when it serves the states interest to subjugate the vulnerable.
This story…everything about it breaks my heart. It’s also Handmaid’s Tale level of scary.
I also just read about the (Republican) Secretary of State in Ohio purging over 20K voters from the rolls. As a former Ohioan I’m so angry I can barely see straight. They are the most foul cheaters…
It's a sad story but the important thing may be that prosecutors found a case where they can apply the text about abortion kidnapping and the public may accept it.
Oh, dear God. I live in Idaho. The worst is coming true. How long until women of childbearing age have to show proof they're not pregnant before they cross the state line? If that sounds outlandish, I'd bet the rent that some of our state legislators are considering something like that.
I've been talking about this shit for years. I share Abortion Everyday on social media. No one I know seems to care??? I feel like I'm screaming into the void.
What a cluster. And honestly this stuff could happen in certain branches of my family! Looks like this girl was in a bad situation any way you look at it. I’m fine if you want to charge them with providing meth to the girl but this kidnapping stuff is going to be one slippery slope.
This is precisely, and sadly, the sort of hypocritical and messy situation where, as others have said, nobody wins except those who want to push this as "trafficking." It certainly leaves a bad taste, and smell. Thanks for relating this because it really puts the lie to the idea that these laws are protecting anyone's rights to have and keep a child that was actually wanted.
We have officially entered the "dystopian hellscape" era of American history.
This is such a sad story — and prosecution isn’t going to help any of them.
Just another example of what you keep saying -- they criminalize abortion in a variety of ways. And wow, this story was sad.
I heard it here first.
"likely to go after people who won't garner much sympathy from the public" - exactly. In a way that seems like a good thing, if it means they know they can't actually enforce these laws any way they want. Except that it's designed to be a slippery slope, testing boundaries in different communities across the country. We can't let it go unchallenged but we also have to be careful which cases we highlight to promote our cause, because it's not just about right or wrong, but whether we can be persuasive and get and keep people listening to us. In this case I think the message should be the clear demonstration of the need for abortion care here. Focus on asking why KB should be made to be a mother, rather than on the other two.
And this is only the first of how many 😪😪😪
Horrified by this blatant misogynistic hateful activity.