His whole decision to charge the woman appears to be personal. He shouldn’t* need* a personal reason to take a case. He’s the DA. Does he not prosecute rapists if he doesn’t personally know any rape victims? And he should have let an assistant handle this prosecution.
Hmm. Apparently, even pro-life Republicans are divided on the Tennessee bill that would charge a woman with felony assault if she uses drugs while pregnant and harm results to the fetus. (It’s not clear from the story whether alcohol would count as a drug, BTW; and it probably does harm more fetuses than any other. There might not really be any such thing as a “crack baby,” but fetal alcohol syndrome is a real problem.)
Welcome to El Salvador where abortion is banned under all circumstances. Poor women who miscarry and end up in public hospitals (rich women can avoid this) are sometimes reported to the police, tried for murder, and sentenced to decades in prison. Fearing this, many women who miscarry don’t seek medical care and some of them die.
In Nicaragua (ditto on the abortion ban), medical personnel can be prosecuted for treatment that might have contributed to a miscarriage so pregnant women don’t get treated for all kinds of things. And some of them die.
I’m not sure what you’re saying. Both countries currently have leftist governments, insofar as the political left can be said to exist in Latin America these days. Nicaragua’s laws on abortion have become much stricter under the Sandinistas (current version). The FMLN hasn’t done much to challenge the total ban in El Salvador.
In the old days, when only one of either child or mother was going to make it, the RC priestly position was — antagonistic to the stern old patriarchs who preferred their living wife to a putative child — that the new soul of the child took precedence.
Then the bitter father took it out on the child for the rest of his life.
Anyway, in such a case, can we suppose the State of Mississippi will prosecute the child for causing the death of its mother in the future ?
Being anti-abortion isn’t a left or right wing position, it’s an anti-woman position. It’s about abusing women, or using them as breeding animals; neither of which attitudes is restricted to one side of the political spectrum.
There are certainly feminist movements advocating for change but thus far few politicians or political parties capable of and willing to challenge the Catholic Church on the matter.
It’s odd. Leftist governments are certainly willing to challenge the Church on LGBT matters. Just not when reproductive choices are involved.