{"id":202175,"date":"2019-05-17T07:36:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=202175"},"modified":"2019-05-17T00:38:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T05:38:29","slug":"twitter-feminist-fails-prove-jail-miscarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/twitter-feminist-fails-prove-jail-miscarriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter feminist tries – and fails – to prove women will be jailed for miscarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a recent Twitter thread<\/a>, pro-abortion feminist author Jessica Valenti expressed her anger at recent pro-life laws passed in Georgia and Alabama. Valenti posted a series of cases in which women were arrested due to harm caused to a preborn (or in some cases, born) child. She did this in an attempt to prove that women will be\u00a0hurt if abortion is restricted or banned and implies that women will <\/span>be thrown in jail for having miscarriages, though the majority of cases listed below have nothing to do with miscarriage.<\/p>\n

Does Valenti desire a society that refuses to recognize the preborn human in the womb whatsoever? After all, a society that refuses to penalize harm done to the preborn by violent offenders seems highly unjust (see these<\/a> cases<\/a> in New York, this one<\/a> in Colorado, and this one<\/a> in Canada, for just a few examples).<\/p>\n

But Valenti’s concern about women being investigated for miscarriages rings more than a little hollow in light of the fact that abortion groups are already advising women illegally taking the abortion pill to lie to medical personnel if they experience complications, and to claim they are having natural miscarriages<\/a>. The abortion drugs, these groups say, cannot be detected in blood or urine.<\/p>\n

In a closer look at some of the cases presented by Valenti below, laws meant to protect preborn human beings from violent aggressors were misapplied instead to the mothers of the children. But none of the cases prove that women will be jailed for miscarriages — especially considering that Georgia’s and Alabama’s new abortion laws specifically exclude any penalties for women<\/em>.<\/p>\n

1) Bei Bei Shuai<\/b><\/p>\n

Valenti’s claim:\u00a0<\/b>Bei Bei Shuai lost her pregnancy after she tried to kill herself – within a half hour a homicide detective was questioning her. She was arrested for murder <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/t.co\/2zhFVcbjAB<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

FACTS:\u00a0This case is about the death of a viable baby in the third trimester; it is\u00a0not<\/em> questioning a miscarriage.<\/b><\/p>\n

Shuai was suicidal, distraught, and knowingly and intentionally ingested rat poison to end her own life and her baby’s — a fact admitted in the case, and not mentioned by Valenti.<\/p>\n

According to the appeal<\/span><\/a> in the case of Bei Bei Shuai vs. State of Indiana<\/em>, Shuai:<\/span><\/p>\n