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Women Who Have Miscarriages Could Face Prosecution in West Virginia

lynnwinslow

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And this confusing BS is why men with no medical training shouldn't legislate women's healthcare procedures.

Women who have miscarriages could face prosecution in West Virginia

A West Virginia prosecutor has said women who hide evidence of their miscarriages could face criminal charges under laws about disposing of a body.
www.newsweek.com

According to Raleigh County prosecuting attorney, Tom Truman, women who have experienced a miscarriage, otherwise known as an involuntary abortion, in the state, could face charges if they are found to have buried, flushed, or hidden evidence of their miscarriage.

Criminal Charges After Miscarriage? - WV MetroNews

Raleigh County Prosecutor Tom Truman, perhaps unknowingly and unintentionally, opened Pandora’s Box late Friday in an interview with Beckley television station WVNS. The station reached out to Truman seeking clarity on a provocative and troubling question: Could women in West Virginia who...
wvmetronews.com

Truman suggested calling 911, a doctor or law enforcement if worried about potential charges. He noted he would not be willing to file charges in such cases.
 
Let me know when it has happened.
 
lynnwinslow said:
Tell us you don't understand the point of the thread without telling us you don't understand the point of the thread.
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Fear mongering?
Shaking a stick at the boogey man that doesn't exist?

How about you let me know what the actual point is?
 
Although West Virginia law does not require women to disclose their miscarriages, Truman has encouraged women to tell law enforcement about their miscarriages in order to avoid suspicion surrounding their pregnancy loss.
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JFC, this really shows that in a democracy, there are no limits to government power. Note how this prick turns the presumption of innocence on its head, since there is no legal requirement for women to report. He's saying women have to prove their innocence, which aside from being ethically repugnant, completely undermines medical privacy.
 
Cope said:
Fear mongering?
Shaking a stick at the boogey man that doesn't exist?

How about you let me know what the actual point is?
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Read the first sentence of the OP. And then read the links. If you still don't understand, oh well.
 
Cope said:
Let me know when it has happened.
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Oh, it's happening.

Woman's arrest after miscarriage in Georgia draws fear and anger

Experts say the arrest is part of a pattern of criminalizing pregnancy that has accelerated since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
www.nbcnews.com

Brittany Watts, Ohio woman charged with felony after miscarriage at home, describes shock of her arrest

Brittany Watts, the Ohio woman charged with a felony after a miscarriage, says she doesn't want "any other woman to go through what I had to go through."
www.cbsnews.com
 
This is what happens when the unborn are given the same rights as the born. If a driver accidentally kills a child, he must report it and remain at the scene. If a mother's born child accidentally dies, she can't hide evidence, bury the child and notify no one. These are natural progressions of law. It's why some states came to the realization that if an embryo has the same rights as a born child, then it would be illegal to put it into stasis in a bath of liquid nitrogen.

The pro-life position is built on a house of conflicting cards.
 
lynnwinslow said:
And this confusing BS is why men with no medical training shouldn't legislate women's healthcare procedures.
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This isn’t about women’s healthcare procedures. It’s about the treatment of human remains.
 
Watts is an inhuman monster who checked herself out of the hospital against medical advice twice and tried to hide her miscarriage by plunging her 21-week fetus down the toilet and clogging the plumbing with the remains.
 
Cope said:
I read it. Miscarriages result in no charges, UNLESS ...?

UNLESS what Lynn?
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A law must identify those it seeks to protect to be valid. A law that fails to identify and protect all is a failed law. If the law didn't require live births to be certified, then children could be abused, abandoned, murdered, and the state wouldn't know.

A failed pregnancy can occur before a woman knows she's pregnant. Indeed, a large percentage of embryos fail to attach. A law that gives the same rights to a zygote as it does to a born child needs to account for these failed pregnancies like all others, if it is to be consistent. If the law has a purpose in protecting born children from their mothers, and the unborn are to be treated with the same rights as the born, then an abusive pregnant woman, who would have her born children taken from her by the state, would need to be incarcerated and monitored, in the interest of the personhood of the unborn.

Simply put, if a fertilized egg has the same rights as a born child, then the moment of fertilization is when certification is required, if the law is to be consistent.

Pro-life is a house of cards.
 
Women is some states are being reduced to 3rd class "citizens".
MAGA are happy.
 
Rogue Valley said:
With MAGA... cruelty is the point.
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Stuff like what he's talking about happened before Dobbs.

US women are being jailed for having miscarriages

More and more American women are facing prison for allegedly harming their unborn baby by using drugs.
www.bbc.com

Even if personhood is assigned at birth, it doesn't take a genius to see how disposing of a late-term miscarriage (even if the death occurred before birth) can create evidence of infanticide.
 
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