John EspinozaDec 2, 2022
Eva

A woman was arrested for "chemical endangerment" for using drugs while pregnant. The problem: She wasn't pregnant. So officers released her, but told her if she gets pregnant in the next few month she will be re-arrested.

The people who told us we were overreacting when Roe was overturned were never arguing in good faith and also they were very wrong.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/alabama-case-over-mistaken-pregnancy-highlights-risks-post-roe-world-2022-12-01/

Alabama case over mistaken pregnancy highlights risks in a post-Roe world

An ongoing lawsuit in Alabama typifies the far-reaching criminalization of women enabled by some anti-abortion ideology and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent <a href="/world/us/us-supreme-court-overturns-abortion-rights-landmark-2022-06-24/">ruling</a> overturning Roe v. Wade.

Reuters
Dec 2, 2022 at 1:39amWeb
Show threadBasedPickleDec 2, 2022
@evacide That is one messed up fat joke
Show threadanothernameDec 2, 2022
@evacide sickening. I hope Biden and dems can do something about this bullshit.
Show threadNerdShinobiDec 2, 2022
@karenh7463 @evacide based on how much they've done to curtail GOP BS so far, I'm not holding my breath.
Show threadrationalhumanDec 2, 2022
@NerdShinobi @karenh7463 @evacide exactly they could have done something long ago.
Show threadrationalhumanDec 2, 2022
@karenh7463 @evacide they have had so much ti@e to have done something and didn’t. 😡
Show threadMilcom MiasmaDec 2, 2022
@evacide Damn it. 😠
Show threadAndrew C. DingmanDec 2, 2022
@evacide I think I'd go with very mendacious, rather than very wrong. Too bad anyone believed them; that whole movement is openly in bad faith.
Show threadkexlineDec 2, 2022

@acdingman @evacide I don't think they were alllllll lying. Lying is intentional. I think a lot of folks who told us not to hyperventilate sat in privileged positions of "lol just politics" ignorance, genuinely unaware how far things had already gone.

Well intentioned, tragically misguided headasses who thought the bodily autonomy boulder was sitting still at the top of the slope before Gorsuch/Trump/Kemp/Kavanaugh/Barrett/Abbott/Casey, or whatever made them notice something was wrong.

Show threadPatty Bluebird 🦩Dec 2, 2022
@evacide WTAF?!?
Show threadNed HamsonDec 2, 2022
@evacide fascists and sexists will use any excuse they can drum up to enslave women to their views and abuse… resist
Show threadTofu GolemDec 2, 2022

@evacide
They knew they weren't arguing in good faith.

What do you expect from people using Christian "morals"?

Show threadNerdShinobiDec 2, 2022
@evacide allowing Alabama to administer its own legal system at this point is much like making a bobcat a police officer.
Show threadMark BrittenDec 2, 2022
@NerdShinobi At least bobcats (probably) don't discriminate based on race or sex.
Show threadNerdShinobiDec 2, 2022
@lemonflavoured it would be a far more equitable version of justice.
Show threadPatrickleeDec 2, 2022
@NerdShinobi @evacide I'd trust the bobcat more.
Show threadSpecial Agent Dr. Deez EsqDec 2, 2022

@evacide

Disgusting

Show threadChris BrownDec 2, 2022
@evacide Enforce Government Mandates? Nah, Enforce Control Over a Woman's Body? Yes.

The evil is the point of these people.
Show thread©Dec 2, 2022

@evacide At what point are #Women not cattle?

#WomensRights #MeToo

Show threadkim stDec 2, 2022
@evacide facking asswipes. They can keep their hands off my uterus.
Show threadfevziDec 2, 2022
@evacide Infuriating!
Show threadFoodiesaurus ReginaDec 2, 2022
@evacide it was always about controlling women.
Show threadSir LoinstakeDec 2, 2022
@evacide
The Handmaids's tale is no longer a work of fiction
Show threadKay   Dec 2, 2022

@evacide I imagine officers wouldn't know enough science to understand lifespan of drugs in a body is short. Many meds say not to take them with grapefruit but a person can still have grapefruit for breakfast and take meds 8 hours later.

Wonder if they'll try to arrest potential fathers for chemical endangerment too? Don't do drugs befor sex!! Odds are they'd need to arrest most male officers for that too

Show threadJane MarchDec 2, 2022
@evacide hamdmaids tale
Show threadCO DomDec 2, 2022
@evacide That act laid a brick of a fort that will be used to put civil rights into the hands of a 2 party run state. Such laws should never be manipulated without everyone’s agreement.
Show threadWTFDec 2, 2022
@evacide Police Reform! Can we say defund the bastards yet Opps!! Sorry.
Show threadundead enby of the apocalypseDec 2, 2022
@Kitchi @evacide abolish the police
Show threadMirko AdamDec 2, 2022
@evacide If the US politicians would really care about children, they would have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. However, the US remains the only country that has not ratified the Convention. Each and every other UN member country has ratified the document. Even non-member states like the Holy See have ratified it.
Show threadCeriDec 2, 2022
@evacide horrendous. 😔
Show threadJudyLaughsDec 2, 2022
@evacide Where does one even begin to address the number of issues this raises?
Show threadRoxie MoxieDec 2, 2022
@evacide This lunacy has got to stop! Or we need to put men who do drugs in jail for “chemical endangerment,” since they’re probably doing harm to their sperm.
Show threadbluewave is comingDec 2, 2022
@evacide A woman had to keep a dead fetus in her stomach , because doctor were afraid to remove it and get accused of abortion. guess they either wanted the woman to die of sceptic shock or wanted to create a stone baby #Bluewave
Show threadRichardOntarioDec 2, 2022
@evacide
Show threadlressDec 2, 2022
@evacide Unfassbare Zustände!
Was kommt als Nächstes? Hexenverbrennung?
😡
Show threadConfiscated Pillow PhoneDec 2, 2022
@evacide Not just wrong; they were LYING. This is what they planned all along.
Show threadWe're Not In Kansas AnymoreDec 2, 2022
@evacide
#WomensHealthcare #AbortionIsHealthcare
Show threadAthena Andreadis, PhDDec 2, 2022

@evacide

I wish I could say I were surprised. Enough people stayed silent for long enough (perhaps because the issue wasn't fashion-du-jour) that this travesty became not just possible but entrenched in law. Tiptree's words remain eerily prescient:

"When the next crisis upsets [men], our so-called rights will vanish like—like that smoke. We'll be back where we always were: property. And whatever has gone wrong will be blamed on our freedom."

#reproductiverights #autonomy #equality

Show threadPamelaSDec 2, 2022
@AthenaHelivoy @evacide THIS! 100% what Athena just said!!
Show threadMaxthedogDec 2, 2022

@evacide isn't arresting someone on false charges and releasing them latter after all the humiliation, legal expenses, and work a form of harassment?

Serious question

Show threadWaterlyllyDec 2, 2022
@evacide These people don't want women to own their own bodies. First they came for people who were pregnant and didn't want to be, and now they're coming for women who aren't pregnant and don't want to be. If you're potentially fertile, your rights to your body are under siege.
Show threadAccidental Resident (she/they)Dec 2, 2022
@evacide #waronwomen
Show threadPatty Bluebird 🦩Dec 2, 2022
@evacide Infuriating 😡
Show threadartisanroxDec 2, 2022

@evacide Wow...eye-opening. And here we are, the real reason for cons to get foamy-mouthed over pregnancy...to essentially harass people regardless of pregnancy status.

Literally, just the power to harass for any reason under moral "cover".

#politics

Show threadOld Scientist 👨‍🔬⚗️🔬🦠💥Dec 2, 2022

@evacide @Lockdownyourlife

I really hate this episode of HANDMAID’S TALE…

Show threadBadWolfLilDec 2, 2022
@evacide We are on the road to Gilead. This is not a drill.
Show threadWomen for IndependenceDec 2, 2022

@evacide Just as #AbortionisHealthcare, so legislating against abortion is misogyny.

We stand with the women - and children - of America, who are endangered and infantilised in states which would force them to bear a child but will not pay towards its upkeep.

#WomensRights #Abortion

Show threadChristineDec 2, 2022
@evacide wtf
Show threadGabrielleDec 2, 2022
@evacide so.. while pregnant, your body belongs to the state then. (In reference to incarceration for drug use while pregnant)
Show threadBoxcar MurphyDec 2, 2022

@evacide

WTF?
We have pregnancy police, now???

Show threadMike WilliamsDec 2, 2022
@evacide As the article points out, Alabama has a grim history when it comes to women and bizarre laws. "And, in 2019, an Alabama grand jury indicted a woman who lost her unborn baby when she was shot, after declining to charge the shooter because it found she had fired in self-defense." - Rueters
Show threadGael E EvansDec 2, 2022
@evacide What in the ____ are these people? The pregnancy police?
Show threadJulie Martin-BeaulieuDec 2, 2022
@evacide this is all so terrifying.
Show threadN. R. M. Roshak (Natalka)Dec 3, 2022
@evacide "suspected of being pregnant" is the worst phrase to read. Stay out of Alabama, fellow people with uteruses... or who could be suspected of having a uterus
Show threadDDimetrodonDec 3, 2022
@evacide Zero surprise. I remember in the early 00s there was some kerfluffle about either a law, bill, or some medical study that basically required women to treat their bodies as 'pre-pregnant' - same deal, don't do drugs or drink alcohol because you *might* be gestating, and take all these pre-natal vitamins for the good of your future baby.
Show threadJeffrey SmithDec 3, 2022

@evacide

This is not due to Dobbs. There have been several similar cases over the last 10 or 15 years.

Show threadMilennialZeroDec 3, 2022
@evacide America has become a parody account. America has so many problems, but one of them is that red-neck Americans are blithely ignorant of anything outside their little bubbles of local culture. Don't know. Don't care. They don't know the rest of the world is laughing at them. They still believe they are the "greatest and most powerful nation on earth". Nope. They just have the greatest spend on military weapons.
Show threadMaddie BobshawDec 4, 2022
@evacide
"If you get pregnant again, we'll arrest you."
Right. So you're gonna constantly check on me if I've gone on a date and if I'm married or in a relationship, you're gonna knock on my door to check if I had sex last night.
But I'm also old enough to vote. Okaaaaay...