re: #7 wrenchwench

Which leads to: all fertile (or assumed fertile) women can be locked up (pending investigation) for smoking a cigarette, drinking a beer, or having a miscarriage (or period, a day late or whatever).

It’s nothing new—the right wing has been passing these kinds of laws for years:

From 2011:

Across the US more and more prosecutions are being brought that seek to turn pregnant women into criminals…In Alabama at least 40 cases have been brought under the state’s “chemical endangerment” law…

At least 38 states have introduced fetal homicide laws that were intended to be used against violent attacks by third parties like abusive male partners. But in South Carolina, only one case has been brought against a man for assaulting a pregnant woman, while up to 300 women have been arrested under the law, according to the National Advocates for Pregnant Women.

thinkprogress.org