Womens Civil RIghts Lost!

Women Losing Their Civil Rights!

I read an article that informed me that women are losing their civil rights when it comes to their unborn child. Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavinnov, wrote "Republicans in the midterm elections and the passage of Tennessee’s anti-abortion amendment, we can expect ongoing efforts to ban abortion and advance the “personhood” rights of fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses" in their article called Pregnant, and No Civil Rights At first I thought this was great, but after reading their information, I was wrong.

The government and court system is accusing women of murder for women giving birth to a stillborn, charging her with fetal homicide. Abortions are legal in most states, but if a mother who has a miscarriage, she could be accused of murder. Paltrow and Flavinnov provided many cases where the injury or death of a fetus was not in their control, but the mother was had charges brought against her. They also gave examples of courts ordering cesareans sections, forcing the mothers to “give birth” too early.

This case floored me, “In Louisiana, a woman who went to the hospital for unexplained vaginal bleeding was locked up for over a year on charges of second-degree murder before medical records revealed she had suffered a miscarriage at 11 to 15 weeks of pregnancy”.

 I don’t understand how these cases are reasonable or how a judge can prosecute a women for a miscarriage. As a women I could not image what it would be like losing a child, never less being prosecuted for my unborn child’s murder. We know there are emotional turmoil when it comes to death. The poor women who have experienced the loss of a child and they having to go to jail. The thoughts that must be going through their mind.We need to stand together and fight for a mothers rights. We focus on abortion and are not aware of the true issue of women losing their civil rights.