An Ohio woman who’d sought treatment at a hospital before suffering a miscarriage and passing her nonviable fetus in her bathroom now faces a criminal charge, her attorney told CNN.
This was always part of the design of overturning Roe. It has never been about the sanctity of life, in exactly the same way that the War on Drugs was never about health or preventing addiction or drug abuse.
The War on Drugs was a pretext for massively expanding the police state in order to disrupt the antiwar left and the black community. It was enacted under Nixon (who needed to shut down the antiwar left) shortly after desegregation (thus giving police forces broad latitude to profile and harass ‘suspicious’ people like black people). As a consequence, the antiwar left basically folded and today there are more black and brown people in prisons on drug charges than there ever were enslaved in America- and 20% of black people in Tennessee can’t vote because of a drug conviction.
The War on Abortion is the War on Drugs 2.0, only this time it targets a bigger slice of the population. Women charged with contrived felonies like this not only have to endure the hell of it, but also the insult of criminal charges- and like the War on Drugs, enforcement discretion will fall most-heavily upon black and brown people and anyone else that doesn’t ‘know their place’ to the satisfaction of anyone in a position to narc.
This was always part of the design of overturning Roe. It has never been about the sanctity of life, in exactly the same way that the War on Drugs was never about health or preventing addiction or drug abuse.
The War on Drugs was a pretext for massively expanding the police state in order to disrupt the antiwar left and the black community. It was enacted under Nixon (who needed to shut down the antiwar left) shortly after desegregation (thus giving police forces broad latitude to profile and harass ‘suspicious’ people like black people). As a consequence, the antiwar left basically folded and today there are more black and brown people in prisons on drug charges than there ever were enslaved in America- and 20% of black people in Tennessee can’t vote because of a drug conviction.
The War on Abortion is the War on Drugs 2.0, only this time it targets a bigger slice of the population. Women charged with contrived felonies like this not only have to endure the hell of it, but also the insult of criminal charges- and like the War on Drugs, enforcement discretion will fall most-heavily upon black and brown people and anyone else that doesn’t ‘know their place’ to the satisfaction of anyone in a position to narc.