It is heartbreaking to read of this woman who miscarried at 19 weeks of pregnancy. This is close to the threshold for survival, and the fetus may have been alive.
It is a dire indictment of the abysmal medical system in the US. We can guess that she did not seek/receive medical care for her miscarriage because she didn’t have the money; s…
It is heartbreaking to read of this woman who miscarried at 19 weeks of pregnancy. This is close to the threshold for survival, and the fetus may have been alive.
It is a dire indictment of the abysmal medical system in the US. We can guess that she did not seek/receive medical care for her miscarriage because she didn’t have the money; so she delivered the fetus at home, and disposed of it the only way she could think of in the middle of the fear and pain. And now the final injustice—arrest and imprisonment.
If affordable/free universal medical care were enacted, none of this would have had to happen. We achieved this in Canada decades ago. Do we want to become the 51st state? 👎
Pregnant women everywhere deserve nothing less than total support and loving respect during pregnancy. The threshold for survival of a fetus is when it can be birthed and survive on its own without extra-ordinary measures. That is NOT 19 wks. More like 34 wks, maybe. I have some peripheral experience with this phenomenon - two of my wives had a total of four miscarriages. One was unplanned, not too long after a healthy, live birth of our first child, maybe 4 months. It just happened. My wife did not even know she was pregnant. She went to the doc and he took care of the fetal mass - that is what it is, not a separate living being. The other three were planned to bring a child into the world, but my wife then was in her 40s and had never conceived. The first two were just masses of cells, the third a properly forming fetus that she just could not hold.
Women have all the burden in this process, and many times they can do everything right and still the pregnancy does not hold. It is just something that happens. It boggles my mind that any male, in any position of responsibility, would even stick his nose into the rights and responsibilities of any woman who is in the process of growing and developing a fetus that will become a child at birth. Both my wives had great medical care, excellent nutrition and were not working, so universal medical care had nothing to do with it. The medical profession handles miscarriages in a dignified manner. Political theatrics should never be allowed near a pregnant woman.
It is heartbreaking to read of this woman who miscarried at 19 weeks of pregnancy. This is close to the threshold for survival, and the fetus may have been alive.
It is a dire indictment of the abysmal medical system in the US. We can guess that she did not seek/receive medical care for her miscarriage because she didn’t have the money; so she delivered the fetus at home, and disposed of it the only way she could think of in the middle of the fear and pain. And now the final injustice—arrest and imprisonment.
If affordable/free universal medical care were enacted, none of this would have had to happen. We achieved this in Canada decades ago. Do we want to become the 51st state? 👎
Pregnant women everywhere deserve nothing less than total support and loving respect during pregnancy. The threshold for survival of a fetus is when it can be birthed and survive on its own without extra-ordinary measures. That is NOT 19 wks. More like 34 wks, maybe. I have some peripheral experience with this phenomenon - two of my wives had a total of four miscarriages. One was unplanned, not too long after a healthy, live birth of our first child, maybe 4 months. It just happened. My wife did not even know she was pregnant. She went to the doc and he took care of the fetal mass - that is what it is, not a separate living being. The other three were planned to bring a child into the world, but my wife then was in her 40s and had never conceived. The first two were just masses of cells, the third a properly forming fetus that she just could not hold.
Women have all the burden in this process, and many times they can do everything right and still the pregnancy does not hold. It is just something that happens. It boggles my mind that any male, in any position of responsibility, would even stick his nose into the rights and responsibilities of any woman who is in the process of growing and developing a fetus that will become a child at birth. Both my wives had great medical care, excellent nutrition and were not working, so universal medical care had nothing to do with it. The medical profession handles miscarriages in a dignified manner. Political theatrics should never be allowed near a pregnant woman.