Jun. 26th, 2011

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Women's rights campaigners see the creeping criminalisation of pregnant women as a new front in the culture wars over abortion, in which conservative prosecutors are chipping away at hard-won freedoms by stretching protection laws to include foetuses, in some cases from the day of conception.

"If it's not a crime for a mother to intentionally end her pregnancy, how can it be a crime for her to do it unintentionally, whether by taking drugs or smoking or whatever it is," Robert McDuff, a civil rights lawyer asked the state supreme court.
Great point! These pregnancies aren't unwanted. They were really wanted and it's a slap in a face to these women to prosecute them. They are going through a hard time as it is.

I got this as a link through FB, btw

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