Dispatches From The War On Women: Prosecuting Failed Pregnancies
Bei Bei Shuai, the woman being prosecuted by the state of Indiana for feticide after her daughter died following Shuai’s failed suicide attempt while 8 months pregnant, rejected a plea deal from prosecutors that would have dropped the murder charge Shuai faces. The fact that prosecutors refuse to negotiate away the feticide charge but will negotiate the murder charge proves this is a political prosecution. Never before has a pregnant woman been charged under Indiana’s feticide laws because that is not the harm they were intending to remedy.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli may have refused to sign on to new abortion regulations because he doesn’t think they go far enough.
Is the battle over funding Planned Parenthood in Indiana going to be the first real legal test to come from the Affordable Care Act?
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thisisaslongas reblogged this from the-lesbian-guide-to-the-galaxy and added:
So this is fascinating. I have long held that people who call abortion murder have it all wrong; abortion is not an act...
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