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https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120628973/pregnant-woman-dallas-fetus-hov-lane-passenger-ticket
Was going to say...
Still, it is annoying that state and municipal officers can drag you to court in your pregnant condition to prove what the legislature has already decided.
Almost as though the police exist to harass and obstruct the rights of citizens, rather than to serve and protect them.
The judge only agreed because if they denied, their stupid abortion laws would have to be revisited.
Technically it wasn't the police's job to make that kind of interpretation but after the precedent had been set they should apply the court's decision
This was the second ticket she'd had dismissed. The courts had already made the interpretation. Cops simply weren't abiding by it.
See the comment I replied to and read my whole comment
Hey, at least they're consistent. Also, I can't think of anybody who wants abortion at 34 weeks.
God does, they create miscarriages all the time.
But God doesn't kill people /s
You've never heard of a still born birth?
Who wants a still born birth?
Not many people. But under the current laws around abortion, hospital administrators are too afraid of legal liability to remove a dead baby from the mother.
Case in point
Hospital staff are being told not to treat pregnant women, entirely, because any form of treatment might be flagged as "aiding in an abortion" by the state.
Your initial response read to me that there were folks wishing for still borns.
But yeah the stories are typically horrifying, like the one mother in Texas who had the means to flee out of state to get the healthcare she needed.
I like how she admitted she didn't think of the political ramifications and was just working the exploit she'd been given XD