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RISTA HARDINGS DAUGHTER was eight weeks old when that police cruiser pulled behind her on the interstate and hit the lights in September 2019. She called her boss at the Little Caesars in Pinson, Alabama, where shed just been promoted to manager: Im going to be a little late, but Im coming in! Dont panic. Hardings registration tag was expired. She figured the officer would write her a ticket and shed be on her way, but when he came back after running her drivers license, he had handcuffs out.
There was a felony warrant out for her arrest, he said: Chemical endangerment of a child. Harding used her most patient customer-service tone to ask the officer if hed please check again. But there was no mistake, the cop confirmed: He was taking her to the Etowah County Detention Center, almost an hours drive away.
Im in the back of the cop car just bawling my eyes out, like, ugly-face-snot-bubbles crying, Harding remembers. She was worried about being away from her newborn, and she was confused: Chemical endangerment of a child? I think of somebody cooking meth with a baby on their hip, she says.
Shes right to think that: The Alabama law, passed in 2006, was intended to target those who expose children to toxic chemicals, or worse, explosions, while manufacturing methamphetamine in ad-hoc home labs.
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,380 posts)kerry-is-my-prez
(8,749 posts)Lonestarblue
(11,345 posts)The US as a whole has the highest rates of any developed nation at more than 17 deaths per 100,000 births, more than triple the averages in many European countries. Mississippi has the highest US rate at 82, followed by Louisiana at 61, and Alabama at 57. Contrast those rates to California at 9.7. If you live in a Republican state, you have a far greater chance of dying from pregnancy and being prosecuted because Republicans hate women, especially black women.
Timeflyer
(2,475 posts)And they call it pro-life.
Crunchy Frog
(26,876 posts)they have no access to prenatal care or adequate nutrition. Thereby actually killing fetuses in the name of saving them.
Fla Dem
(25,211 posts)I feel like it's a fictional story about some dystopian universe. Even the fact that her physician shared her pregnancy test results with the police. It's terrifying. The same people who are so concerned about the unborn baby place her in a filthy cell with barel enough food to keep her alive and no doctors available is absolutely disgusting
Crunchy Frog
(26,876 posts)could become pregnant, or have ever been pregnant.
I seriously wonder if they could arrest me for developing pre-eclampsia and delivering prematurely 15 1/2 years ago.
And that woman who they forced to labor, deliver, and have a pp hemorrhage in their jail is now being forced to serve a 16 year prison sentence.
Solly Mack
(91,765 posts)I won't type what I'm thinking. But it involves electrodes, rusty razor blades, turpentine, duct tape and a car battery.