New research shows hundreds of
women in the United States have been arrested, forced to undergo unwanted
medical procedures, and locked up in jails or psychiatric institutions, because
they were pregnant.
… in South Dakota, taken into
custody on suspicion of pregnancy, to protect the unborn child from her
drinking, for example
… a case where a woman was
diagnosed with gestational diabetes,—they civilly committed her in the
hospital, and they said she wasn’t—she was examined. She wasn’t insane. She
wasn’t a danger to herself. But because they claimed that her mental health
situation didn’t enable her to go for needed prenatal testing, they could keep
her locked up in the hospital. And one of the things we also found is that when
those kinds of things happen, it doesn’t mean that the woman or the baby is
protected. She was locked in that hospital,
We’ve had cases where lawyers have
been appointed for a fetus before the woman herself, who’s been locked up, ever
gets a lawyer; cases where they’ve ordered a procedure over women’s religious
objections
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