Tennessee just became the first state that will jail women for their pregnancy outcomes

[tod evans]

Now to convince some supposed liberty lovers to get up off their knees, unpurse their lips and turn loose of the prosecutors appendages!

Prosecuting attorneys as a breed are far more dangerous to liberty and humanity than some dumb cop...

 

[donnay]

Now to convince some supposed liberty lovers to get up off their knees, unpurse their lips and turn loose of the prosecutors appendages!

Prosecuting attorneys as a breed are far more dangerous to liberty and humanity than some dumb cop...

Most of them are politicians in the making. The more arrests they have under their belt the better the politician s/he becomes.

They make the laws, break the laws and know all the loop holes.

 

[otherone]

Prosecuting attorneys as a breed are far more dangerous to liberty and humanity than some dumb cop...

Naked ambition. The accused are playing cards in a giant YU-GI-OH game.

 

[milgram]

This issue comes up (quite disturbingly) in the documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, which follows a troubled yet endearing clan of drug-using welfare recipients. I believe they are snorting some chopped-up pill(s) here.

She is not arrested but her child is taken away.

(Sorry about the poor video quality but it's all I can find.)

 

[Ender]

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday called the law dangerous and said Haslam overlooked widespread calls for a veto of the bill, including from doctors.

"Today, the Tennessee governor has made it a crime to carry a pregnancy to term if you struggle with addiction or substance abuse," Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, staff attorney with the ACLU Freedom Project, said in a statement. "This deeply misguided law will force those women who need health care the most into the shadows. Pregnant women with addictions need better access to health care, not jail time."

Exactly.

Hope the ACLU pursues this.