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A shower thought about Roe being overturned.

DISCUSSION

A thought I had with abortion access in the US looking at being restricted so much, does that mean that death in childbirth instead becomes at least manslaughter, or just straight up murder in some cases? Without the option to abort, Impregnation is essentially rolling a dice on if you are killing your the mother, so why shouldn't it be charged as thus.

Even in commited relationships, if the father knows the mother has medical issues which can complicate a pregnancy, then knowingly impregnating is pretty much textbook attempted murder, he is choosing to perform an action which can lead to the death of the mother. In the case of ectopics etc, its just straight up manslaughter. If the 'child' is already a person so killing them is murder, so them killing the mother is at least man slaughter, being well below the age of responsibility, it again falls on the father to take the blame.

I'm not from the US, so my knowledge of laws in the US is less than steller, but it certainly seems that you could push for charges in these kinds of cases.

Posted May 12, 2022, 9:47 AM UTC

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plantking9001•

If only.

They (realistically) wouldn't hold men responsible. It wouldn't even be a consideration. It would still be the woman's/person's fault for having the audacity to get pregnant in the first place, much like it is now.

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plantking9001•

You're right.

It's hard to not want to swing back after you get punched even if it isn't the right thing to do. 🙃

An eye for an eye just leads to blindness.

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Nelashena•

Overturning Roe v Wade is about controlling women again by men. They’re not going to punish themselves.

Read up on Women’s Suffrage and the Women’s Rights Movement.

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WowOwlO•

The whole issue is about controlling women.
Women aren't human to these people. We're not people. We exist to bear children and to serve our husbands and care for those children. If we can't even produce children then we're a waste and better off dead.

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EatYourTomatoes•

Some states are trying to make laws for doctors to reimplant ectopic pregnancies. It's not medically possible, but the GOP's idea is to accuse women of murder regardless of it's a viable birth or not.

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Sweet_Little_AngelNo marriage, no kids, no mortgage, no worries•

But that would mean that they would actually have to hold men accountable when it comes to reproduction rights for a change /s

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PaddlesOwnCanoe•

You make some good points there.

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