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I'm back in Chengdu for maybe a week.
I saw this posted in Twistedchick's LJ:
Let me mention something that isn't likely to be in the headlines: the way that laws like this are being interpreted now means that if a doctor has a pregnant patient whose fetus dies, he may not legally be able to go in and remove it before the dead tissue causes problems for the woman. Unless they can induce birth, to get it out of her body, she may well be in a life-threatening situation, and her doctor would face felony charges for saving her life. That's how strictly these laws are being interpreted. Women's lives aren't the lives that are considered important. Welcome to third-class status, sisters, behind the rights of men and the rights that men want to award to fetuses. Do not ever think that neoCons won't prosecute doctors for saving women's lives. Why would they, when they consider women's only 'true' role to be to populate the world with more neoCons? If you think I'm exaggerating here, consider the Kansas attorney general who wanted to get his hands on the private records of clinics that helped teen-aged women with birth control "so that he could prosecute child rapists" despite the fact that the clinic had turned over all required information on assaults already, and the cases of the women in Utah who were unable to get doctors to deal with the dead fetuses they were forced to carry. I linked to that article well over a year ago. This is not new. It is dangerous and it is real, and it affects every woman, not just the ones who are pregnant with wanted or unwanted fetuses.
That is evil.
More later maybe.
I saw this posted in Twistedchick's LJ:
Let me mention something that isn't likely to be in the headlines: the way that laws like this are being interpreted now means that if a doctor has a pregnant patient whose fetus dies, he may not legally be able to go in and remove it before the dead tissue causes problems for the woman. Unless they can induce birth, to get it out of her body, she may well be in a life-threatening situation, and her doctor would face felony charges for saving her life. That's how strictly these laws are being interpreted. Women's lives aren't the lives that are considered important. Welcome to third-class status, sisters, behind the rights of men and the rights that men want to award to fetuses. Do not ever think that neoCons won't prosecute doctors for saving women's lives. Why would they, when they consider women's only 'true' role to be to populate the world with more neoCons? If you think I'm exaggerating here, consider the Kansas attorney general who wanted to get his hands on the private records of clinics that helped teen-aged women with birth control "so that he could prosecute child rapists" despite the fact that the clinic had turned over all required information on assaults already, and the cases of the women in Utah who were unable to get doctors to deal with the dead fetuses they were forced to carry. I linked to that article well over a year ago. This is not new. It is dangerous and it is real, and it affects every woman, not just the ones who are pregnant with wanted or unwanted fetuses.
That is evil.
More later maybe.