Lagen gör en gravid kvinna ansvarig för sina missfall. Japp.
"This creates a law that makes any pregnant woman who has a miscarriage potentially criminally liable for murder," says Missy Bird, executive director of Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Utah. Bird says there are no exemptions in the bill for victims of domestic violence or for those who are substance abusers. The standard is so broad, Bird says, "there nothing in the bill to exempt a woman for not wearing her seatbelt who got into a car accident."
Such a standard could even make falling down stairs a prosecutable event, such as the recent case in Iowa where a pregnant woman who fell down the stairs at her home was arrested under the suspicion she was trying to terminate her pregnancy.
"This statute and the standards chosen leave a large number of pregnant women vulnerable to arrest even though they have no intention of ending a pregnancy," Paltrow said. "Whether or not the legislature intended this bill to become a tool for policing and punishing all pregnant women, if enacted this law would permit prosecution of a pregnant woman who stayed with her abusive husband because she was unable to leave. Not leaving would, under the 'reckless' standard, constitute conduct that consciously disregarded a substantial risk," Paltrow explained.
Yeargh! Påminn mig om att aldrig, aldrig, aldrig åka till Utah, ens som ogravid. Den här tendensen att ta kontroll över kvinnors kroppar, genom att reglera dem genom deras graviditet gör mig helt mörkrädd. Det är definitivt ett gigantiskt steg bakåt.
Ursäkta mig, medan jag sitter i ett hörn och skakar en stund.
