Monday, September, 28th, 2015, 9:06 pm
For years the pro birth movement has waged war on women’s reproductive rights by regulating most abortion clinics out of existence, by issuing deceptive talking points about abortions and mandating doctors to recite them and mandating intrusive but medically unnecessary tests such as the trans-vaginal ultrasound.
They have taken it further with laws that reduce women to birthing vessels subject to criminal prosecution for miscarriages and self-induced abortions. The Guttmacher Institute studied the results of policies that criminalize self-induce abortions and for that matter criminalize the “faulty” birthing vessels who had miscarriages.
As noted by the author, Andrea Rowan, we don’t know if self-induced abortions are increasing – only that they are gaining more attention as the pro-birth movement continues its crusade for the protection of zygotes and fetuses over the well-being of women and children.
It’s important to note that laws targeting women who self-induce abortions also trap woman who miscarry and woman who need addiction support services. That is the context in which women are reduced to birthing vessels while zygotes and fetuses are rendered worthy of the fullest protections of the law. The targets of these “laws” are the usual targets, women living in poverty or facing other challenges.
The results of these dehumanizing and barbaric policies can be summarized by one sentence in Rowan’s study.
Jailing women who self-induce has no societal purpose nor any benefit for women’s health, by contrast, women and society would benefit from improved access to comprehensive reproductive health services, including affordable, legal and supportive abortion care and contraceptive care to prevent future unintended pregnancies.
Read more
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/28/study-documents-tranformation-womens-legal-status-persons-birthing-vessels.html
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