Alabama Woman Indicted -- For Being Shot (which caused a miscarriage).

So, 'confinement' becomes a thing again. Once you're pregnant, stay home whenever possible, to avoid conflict or other danger.
And, the authorities are actual looking for cases to practice on.

Watch the birthrate in the U.S. decline sharply, as women decide not to take chances with their freedoms.

I have no words at the moment. I need to choose my words carefully after I calm down.

This cannot possibly be true. I am going to come back to it tomorrow and hopefully by then we'll have heard it's just - not possibly true.

Was she maybe shooting at the person who shot at her? Or at the children of the person who shot at her? I can't get my head around this at all.

mccardey said:

Was she maybe shooting at the person who shot at her? Or at the children of the person who shot at her? I can't get my head around this at all.

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Very simple. An incubator's job is to incubate, not pretend to be a complete and autonomous human being.

I don't know, frimble,your prediction should be correct, but taking away access to birth control is jelly to the peanut butter of crushing women. Especially poor women and women of color.

cornflake said:

No, not kidding. Not The Onion.

Alabama, at the forefront of the rush to remaking the country as Margaret Atwood's nightmare, indicted a woman who was shot in the abdomen, because it caused a miscarriage, and the grand jury decided she'd started the verbal argument which ended in someone shooting her. The person who shot her? Charges dismissed. Yeah, seriously.

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If there truly was an argument for building a border wall, this state would be the first place I would start. There are others, but this one should be at the top of the list.

Well obviously it was this woman's fault. If only she knew her place and instead of trying to be an actual human being who thinks she has the right to argue with her "man," she deliberately placed her unborn child in harm's way of the bullet. If only she had just moved a few inches either way, she could have been the one to take the bullet, then she could be put on life support for 4 months and that child could then be raised by her loving father. No burden is too great to bear if you are a woman and pregnant, and after all, sacrificing your own life is such a small thing to do.

I want to believe this will be a wake up call for all the voters on the fence who just want lower taxes, but the events of the last few years have snuffed out any optimism I may have had.

I don't want to violate the no swear rule, but insert every curse word you've ever heard right here - *********************!

kikazaru said:

Well obviously it was this woman's fault. If only she knew her place and instead of trying to be an actual human being who thinks she has the right to argue with her "man," she deliberately placed her unborn child in harm's way of the bullet.

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From what I understood of the article, the argument was with another woman and they were arguing about the baby's father. The entire situation is just monstrous, though. I can't believe that they'd charge her for something like that and compound the trauma of losing her child. I truly hope that she's able to get a good lawyer who will help her appeal to a different court!

Just when you thought the stupidity/cruelty could not get worse.

Larry M said:

Just when you thought the stupidity/cruelty could not get worse.

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It was always leading here.

Women shouldn't have non-religiously-sanctioned sex.
If she does, she deserves to get pregnant.
If she gets pregnant, she's entirely subservient to the fetus.
If the pregnancy goes to term, she's ostracized and starved as a single mother.

We. Are. Not. People. To. Them.

I'm so glad they stopped this dangerous woman before she got shot again. Dear god, what if she were carrying twins? Imagine that.

I suspect even an Alabama pro-lifer would feel a bit queasy with this one. Which is why it's a DAMN good thing for them that the victim is black. "Whew!" I can hear all the nice white church-ladies saying. "At least we can blame it on her being with the 'wrong' kind of people. Maybe if she wasn't so uppity she would have just turned and gone back into the house where she belonged. Tut-tut."

The crazy thing is, even if she DID deserve punishment (which is obviously stupid), she's already been punished. She got freakin' shot!

I'd imagine the recidivism rate on getting shot is pretty doggone low.

ElaineA said:

I suspect even an Alabama pro-lifer would feel a bit queasy with this one.

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Nah, I’d need to see some evidence for that.

Americans today are too complacent about freedoms they have that were won hard. Staying home on election day 2020 is not an option. Neither is voting for unicorn third-party candidates. This tide of repressive bullshit is only going to keep rolling, unless people vote to stop it.

Well, they do say in 'Bama...ROLL TIDE!

The Crimson Tide they apparently prefer:

mccardey said:

I can't get my head around this at all.

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It's simple, really. A woman pulled a gun and shot another woman in self defense. It is a rather common occurrence in the US. Nevermind the huge imbalance between the threat level and the defense response. It's all legit.

-cb

That fetus screwed up by not arming itself for just this situation.

Introversion said:

That fetus screwed up by not arming itself for just this situation.

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You beat me to it. If fetuses were allowed to carry guns, they could defend themselves.

I'm surprised they didn't charge her for the bullet.

I just want to slip in here among the dark humor a dystopian decision like this spawns (my dark humor included), that this wasn't just a prosecutorial decision. This poor woman was indicted by a grand jury. I assume they weren't actually a jury of her peers.

ElaineA said:

I just want to slip in here among the dark humor a dystopian decision like this spawns (my dark humor included), that this wasn't just a prosecutorial decision. This poor woman was indicted by a grand jury. I assume they weren't actually a jury of her peers.

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Given the prosecutor essentially leads the Grand Jury's decision, it amounts to a prosecutor hiding their action behind the Grand Jury.

I get that, but it still took a majority to agree with him. Grand Juries don't indict every single case.