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[Arizona] says, you're pregnant for up to two weeks before you're pregnant.
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It's a difficult cross to bear, but dammit it has to be done.
Listen - honest, hardworking americans need Stand Your Uterus laws to protect themselves.
I think the problem is less prosecutors going out and charging people with JUST this, but that its just a few more extraneous charges we may be able to throw at you when you get arrested for something real. A tactic prosecutors sometimes use is to charge you with everything under the sun they can get away with in order to pressure you to plea bargain. If they can get a few more years in jail for child endangerment or something, that just makes it all the more riskier for the accused to take it to trial.
Which is plausible, definitely. I guess I don't see much of a reason to make a stink about it though because of a) how small the window is (which will directly correlate with the number of cases where such a charge is even feasible), and b) how many other charges they probably have at their disposal for this sort of tactic.
I don't know the answer to this, but is it even illegal to "endanger" a child if you weren't aware you were pregnant? Obviously this would only apply in cases where the mother was the one being charged (as opposed to, say, someone who assaulted her), but it doesn't seem reasonable. It would be expecting any woman who has had sex but has yet to confirmed that she is NOT pregnant to be behaving as though she were with regard to the things she puts in her body and the risks she takes...
All this talk about drug use while pregnant resulting in prison time seemed wrong to me (in that the statements seemed factually incorrect, although thats not to say I think pregnant women should ignore the health of the thing growing inside of them) so I did a quick google and found this website which basically says the only state with statutory criminal charges for drug use during pregnancy is Texas and its for marijuana and its punishment is 2-20 years what the fuck, but some states take into consideration prenatal drug use when determining whether to remove the child/end parental custody, and this pdf which I didnt read all the way because its long and I dont totally care which says that 31 states have used child welfare laws to charge women for using drugs while pregnant but most of the cases plea out (and in 21 out of 22 states in which the convictions have been challenged the convictions have been reversed). Basically this is just another reason why you shouldnt do shit without a lawyer.
Anyway, it was pretty obvious to me on first reading that it was a matter of applying a standard to something difficult to precisely measure. If anything, I would ridicule whichever pro-lifers might consider this a win for their camp.
I have a pretty easy response to this.
"I arbitrarily extend special privilege to an infant that has been fully carried to term, partly because of the extra impact the child has at that point on the mother & father, partly because I feel it is the right thing to do."
Sometimes, laws have to make arbitrary exceptions & approximations in order to protect the vulnerable (laws against statutory rape / child predation are a good example: we set an arbitrary age of 18 for sexual consent in order to protect minors from paedophiles, even though we know the law isn't perfect, because it does it's job well enough). In the case of a pregnant mother, it seems most ethical to consider her to be the vulnerable entity; after the infant is born, it seems most ethical to consider it to be the vulnerable entity.
Awesome, that state is like Arkansas circa 1957.
BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Well, maybe---
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Good luck with that, you dehydrated morons.
It's so silly. You know that the voters in Arizona will approve the ballot initiative, and it'll become state law, then the federal government will sue, and waste a ton of money on lawyering that didn't need to be done.
Maybe we should let them have more? They seem to be operating in a dehydration induced delusional state.
Sometimes it's best to just let the evil millionaire's plan take its course.
That makes as much sense as anything else in this thread.
As someone who lives in SoCal, all I can say is hey, hey, we have a god given right to green lawns even if we're in the middle of a fucking desert. But then again I guess we're taking most of it so we probably have water to spare (according to wikipedia, Arizona only gets 4% of the water from the Colorado river; suckers).
Wait...
Isn't the fact that you're in a desert mostly entirely indicative that you completely lack that God given right? That God was all "lawns? Fuck that noise. SAND!"
Nah man, god gave us irrigation and sprinklers. If he didnt want us to grow lawns in the desert surely he could smite our grass.
Yup.
By default, women are pregnant.
When in Arizona, yes; otherwise, no.
Essentially, you've identified the logical fallacy of the bill that was passed. However, the point is moot (though it shouldn't be); it's likely the Arizona governor will sign it into law. Hopefully the ACLU in AZ isn't stretched too thin to file lawsuit on this one.
There is really no Repub sponsored bill that wouldn't pass in Arizona.
Death to all Gays? 37-22
Forced Christian conversions for all heathens? 37-22
Free handjobs for the .1% ? 37-22
Maybe this is just an acceptance of the uterine quantum waveform? Shrodiengers ovaries?
You are late by about 4 pages - the Schrödinger joke has been made in post 10 I believe
Btw, this is just a state law, right? Federal laws would need to be introduced in Congress or something?
http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-news/2012/04/10/thomas-aubuchon-stripped-of-their-legal-licenses/
(does a happy hedgie dance)
You'd think the feds would just spend 5 minutes to write a nice, simple, brief. I will write it for them, even:
Not to pick on you, TBE, but this question show a big problem that lets morons like the ones in Arizona get away with pretty much murder.
To answer your question, yes, this would just be a law in Arizona. A federal law would have to pass Congress and be signed by the President.
Well, in my defense, I am not even American - so you can dismiss this question as me not knowing enough about your legal system
Fair enough, wasn't hold anything against you anyway :^:
Yes.
"Knew or should have known". Hey, lady, you had sex without a condom and you were feeling a little nauseous, right? So you were reckless in having that six-pack.
emp123, that website doesn't quite say what you suggest. It is talking about states that have laws specifically saying "if you use this drug WHILE PREGNANT it is a crime". That is very different from states which have laws about child endangerment and child abuse. It's illegal to give drugs to a minor, right? WELL YOUR BABY IS A MINOR KTHX.
This and this talk about use of these laws to punish pregnant women for attempting suicide, for using drugs at any time (under laws that are intended to prevent, say, bringing a child into a meth lab), or for murder because they used drugs during pregnancy even when the drug use had nothing to do with a miscarriage.
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Why are Republicans even trying to pass personhood? It appears they don't need it! How the hell is that woman still in jail
So they can ban birth control.
Their party may be hard to kill, but banning birth control would stab it, poison it, burn it, cut off its head, and run it through a mulching machine
Probably democrats and liberals fault.
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