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US women are being jailed for having miscarriages -BBC 2021 (www.bbc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by alphanerd4 to c/[email protected]

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[–] PriorityMotif 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of drunks kill and maim other people because they decide to drive drunk. The punishment very rarely matches the crime, yet you want to impose harsher punishments because of a miscarriage that could maybe be related to drug use.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago

We should assume there is much more evidence that she is responsible beyond what the article claims, but its possible that she is innocent and just had a miscarriage. I dont know if drunks need to get a worse punishment or not, but that doesnt relate to if a woman should be responsible for killing their fetus.