OMFG.
I'm SO FUCKING PISSED OFF.
So here is the article talking about about Mississippi Rennie Gibbs giving birth to a stillborn daughter and the medical examiner finding that the death was a "homicide" due to cocaine toxicity.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...omen-criminals
Today, this case came up in a discussion at work in a very casual space at lunch. Someone was pontificating about how this "crackhead" deserves to rot in jail for "killing her baby" and proceeded to go on and on about how it was her "responsibility as a Mother to bring this child into the world".
The person then went on a rant about how pregnant women should be charged with crimes when their child is born with "preventable medical issues".
I looked at her (yes, a fucking WOMAN was saying this shit) and said, "So, if I get pregnant and my child is born with a predisposition to diabetes then clearly I should be in jail for eating twinkies during my pregnancy."
She actually looked at me and said, "Well...yes!"
So basically, women are fucking incubators and there are actual real live fucking people in this world who want to charge women with fucking CRIMES for not being a good brood mare.
Talk about a fucking Margaret Atwood world.
Gross.