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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe latest anti-choice move: Try to take custody of a woman’s fetus
JESSICA VALENTI, THE GUARDIAN
31 JUL 2015 AT 10:19 ET
ates have tried all sorts of things to prevent women from having abortions. Theyve enacted waiting periods, ultrasound laws and parental notifications. Theyve passed laws that force doctors to lie to women and force women to visit with ideological zealots . Some legislators have even attempted to make women get a mans consent before obtaining the procedure a paternalistic permission slip to access their legal rights.
But Alabama has brought efforts to restrict abortion to a whole new level, as the state tried this week to stop a woman from getting an abortion by terminating her parental rights
to her fetus.
District attorney Chris Connolly filed a petition to terminate an incarcerated womans parental rights for the sole purpose of stopping her from ending her pregnancy. The woman, known as Jane Doe, had filed a lawsuit in order to be granted a furlough to obtain the procedure. Connolly told a local paper , Our position, if the termination for parental rights is granted, is that (she) would not have standing to obtain the abortion. Hes arguing that Does parental rights should be rescinded because she is facing charges of chemical endangerment of a child.
Alabama ACLU legal director Randall Marshall, one of the womans lawyers, told the Huffington Post that this is the first time the state has used these charges to try to prevent an abortion. It appears to me that what the state is attempting to do is turn Jane Doe into a vessel, and control every aspect of her life, he said.
If this dystopian Handmaids Tale nonsense wasnt bad enough, Does fetus was even appointed an attorney, thanks to a law passed in 2014 allowing such a move. (As The Daily Shows brilliant Jessica Williams said to one such fetal attorney : You have a crazy-ass job, sir.)
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Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Surrogates get 20k or more for carrying a pregnancy, she should send them an invoice.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)I have said for years that women need to use the 13th Amendment against involuntary servitude to ensure abortions stay legal.
Involuntary servitude is a United States legal and constitutional term for a person laboring against that person's will to benefit another, under some form of coercion other than the worker's financial needs.
Think about it: a woman forced to carry a pregnancy she doesn't want is laboring against her will. She's effectively been made to use her body for someone else's ideology. Heck, giving birth is even called labor.
I like your idea. Sue them over child abandonment and make them take their fetus.
Very Solomon-like.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,436 posts)to say the least.