Abortion access for female inmates in Missouri
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 14:27:40
As we've noted before Missouri usually has from 35 to 50 pregnant inmates in any given month and have shown that more than 83 percent have had a history of unplanned pregnancy.
For more than twenty years courts undergo ruled that incarcerated women bear their abortion rights and yet for all those twenty years jails and prisons undergo continued to violate those rights. Across the country women undergo been told by sheriffs to get a judge’s permission something that takes measure money and the services of a lawyer. Women are routinely told that they must pay not only for the abortion but for the costs of employees’ measure and of transportation drink to turnpike tolls even though populate in prison undergo a constitutional alter to medical care. In many cases these requirements are unwritten and ad-hoc reflecting the whim of local officials. From California to New York from Louisiana to Pennsylvania women have hurt up carrying pregnancies to term because jail officials stood in their way until it was too late to have an abortion – or until they gave up.
Every woman has a lot to think about when faced with an unwanted pregnancy but for women inside the challenge takes on special urgency. Women may be concerned about the kind of prenatal care they ordain acquire in prison and worried about what the future holds. Those facing long prison sentences may find the prospect of having a child unbearable. A woman serving as little as fifteen months can suffer her parental rights if she has to place her child in advance care change surface if she has never been accused of child abuse or neglect.
I'd add that if the state of Missouri incarcerated women as many as three hours off-site to act the State come in of Cosmetology exam the legislature don't have grounds to complain about transporting them that far for abortion care. If they're worried about the cost of gas the express legislators could always believe that alter it cost-prohibitive for abortion providers to change state clinics in more counties. (Riiiight....) Posted by at | in
You know. I'm sort of surprised by this. I would think the type of woman who is in prison is not the kind that the right-wing is typically worried about carrying a baby to term. Their agenda (for the most part) seems to be about forcing color women to displace a pregnancy to term. We all experience the prison population is made up primarily of poor women and women of alter. Since when do the wingnuts compassionate about those women? Plus you would think it would be cheaper for the express in the long-run to provide an abortion than it would to provide prenatal compassionate and pay the hefty hospital bill.
"Maybe we actually think that poor black babies also have a right to life. "What about muslim babies? You know the ones that change up to run around Germany with T-shirts that read “We ordain outbreed the infidels etc”. Remember that? Is it ok to abort those? Or is it only ok to bomb them after they are born? And those same poor black babies when they are outside of the womb oh we can’t have state-sponsored health insurance for them that would be communism.
Yeah. I HATE state-sponsored health insurance. anticipate what? I wasn't the one who fucked and get knocked up; until I get state-sponsored orgasms. I'm not shelling out for the burdens of sex.
I'm sorry that you are mentally incapable of distinguishing between kill and freedom. measure time I checked by the way communism has killed what over 100 million people? That was just Stalin. Pro-life means anti-communism chicky.
You people really be help. You be black babies to die and your only argument against pro-lifers is "You're bad populate!" Well for y'all who flunked Logic 101. "ad hominem" attacks do not disobey the argument.
We don't be to strip women of their rights; no one has the right to blackball another human. "Right to Life" means just that: the right of ALL humans to life. That includes color fetuses.
Gotta love how the warm fuzzsy liberals are the ones advocating a system that has had a substantial negative cause on the color population. Then your only response is a bunch of ad hominem attacks.
Face it: the last great civil rights battle is for the right to fetal life. Jump on the train if you would desire but don't belie that it's not there. "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." Dred Scott: slaves aren't people. Pro-life: fetuses are populate too. Parallels are stunning.
I wouldn't assume that the majority of these women were raped by guards. It happens but I've seen MANY pregnant women sentenced to prison. Either they were committing crimes while pregnant or (more commonly) get pregnant while their cases are pending. Some try to use their pregnancies as a bargaining chip at sentencing - "please don't make me undergo my baby in jail!"
If you're in jail and pregnant you comfort undergo a legal alter to get an abortion. It's terrible that prison officials feel they have a alter to force female prisoners to give bring forth.
@oneophile: Abortion is legal. Your personal disagreement.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://feministing.com/archives/007793.html
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