'For two weeks I carried my dead fetus': Lawmaker tells her pregnancy loss story
Few things more strongly underscore the sheer stupidity and cruelty of anti-abortionists than their abominably ignorant attitude towards women who have miscarriages. It is (or should be) widely known that a rather
high proportion of pregnancies end in miscarriages, through no fault of the woman or anyone else. Most of these miscarriages are not preventable and are, more often than not, a great source of grief to the women who experience them.
March of Dimes states that 50% of all pregnancies end in miscarriages before a woman have next menstrual flow. Most of them are not aware of their pregnancy. About 15-20% of recognized pregnancy converts into a miscarriage.
Yet some of these extreme anti-abortion laws support investigating and even indicting women merely for having a miscarriage. The last thing a woman already grieving over having an unwanted miscarriage needs is to be further traumatized by real or potential criminal investigation and indictment merely for having one!
And as if this were not already bad enough,
Patients Experiencing Miscarriages Denied Necessary Medication because the same medicines they absolutely need to recover from the effects of spontaneous miscarriages are the ones that can also be used as "morning after pills", and which anti-abortion legislators are trying to ban. Thus doctors can be prosecuted and jailed for using long established, standard practice procedures to treat victims of unwanted miscarriages. These extreme, medically unqualified right wingers are thus, in effect, practicing medicine without a license, which is illegal in every state (as far as I know).
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.