Tennessee Conservative Backed Bill Could Criminalize Natural Miscarriages
“The Republican controlled Tennessee House has passed a bill that would criminalize harming an embryo, which is a group of cells that eventually forms into a fetus. Republicans say House Bill 3517 is meant to clarify an existing law that allows the prosecution of those who harm any fetus. But opponents of the bill claim that it could criminalize women who lose a pregnancy via natural miscarriage.” — http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/21/tennessee-conservative-backed-bill-could-criminalize-natural-miscarriages/
Okay, let’s give embryos personhood status, meaning they have the same status and rights as a woman, but most certainly not a higher status or greater rights. That means that if a newly conceived person hooks itself up to the body of another, for the purpose of stealing that persons physical resources to sustain their own, changing the person’s body permanently, risking her health and very life against her will, the embryo/fetus should be declared a criminal and removed. No person should be able to take over another person’s body for their own benefit, causing detriment to the one it has invaded.
Let those who seek to give greater rights to a pregnancy than a mature woman be hooked up to someone for nine months, using their nutrients and organs, causing sickness, pain and suffering, and risking their own life against their will. And further, once the person is able to function on its own, make the person who has had to endure the physical trauma of the last nine months, be physically and financially responsible for that person for a period of 18-21 years, also against their will.
Forcing one person to give up the right to their own body and endangering their lives against their will is unethical, immoral, and unconstitutional. This war on women is real and must end… now.
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