By Alexandra Jaffe - 04/03/13 01:43 PM ETRepublican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus suggested Wednesday that Democrats "endorse infanticide" by supporting women's health provider Planned Parenthood.In an op-ed posted on the conservative site RedState, Priebus highlights movements made by state legislatures in North Dakota and Florida over the past week to restrict abortion rights.
Watch this Video - Every minute of it!
How 'Pro-Life' Legislation Is Putting Women in Jail
that video is what the right-wing is all about.
Some Snips:
A case in point is Bei Bei Shuai, who has been incarcerated for more than a year facing charges of murder and attempted feticide in Indiana after she attempted to take her own life while she was in her third trimester of pregnancy.SNIPWhat we found is that both of those kinds of measures have been used to justify the arrests, the detentions of, and forced interventions on, pregnant women, most of whom who are not seeking to end their pregnancies. It's providing the legal basis for locking up and tying down pregnant women.There are also cases like Laura Pemberton, a woman who had a previous cesarean, didn't want to undergo another one ... So she began labor at home, hoping she would deliver there without the need of [surgery]. The hospital found out and sent a sheriff to her house, took her into custody, strapped her legs together while she was in active labor, took her to the hospital, where she had no opportunity to talk to a lawyer or have any semblance of due process before they cut her open. They cut her open and forced her to have the surgery.SNIPOne of the earliest cases I worked on was one in which claims of separate rights of the fetus were used to justify four cesarean surgeries on a woman [who then] died, as well as the baby. That's [infringing on her] right to life!SNIP(as just happened two weeks ago in Florida) isn't going to send an email that says "If you don't show up today for your cesarean surgery (that you already have scheduled two days from now), I will send police to your house." He (a doctor ) literally wrote that to this woman,
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