note to self
avoid kansas city while pregnant (if i've done anything worth getting arrested for).
this story out of the kansas city star, as reported at broadsheet, is heinous in every sense of the word. a woman was pulled over for driving with faked temporary plates, and after running her name, officers found outstanding warrants with fines totalling nearly $5000. great. just cause for arrest.
except for the fact that the woman was bleeding and told the officers she feared she was having a miscarriage. they ignored her pleas, took her into custody for 12 hours, and took her to the hospital only after she started passing enormous clots of blood. they were nice enough to give her several changes of pants, since she was consistently bleeding through the ones she came with.
long story short, she lost the four-month-old fetus, which doctors say could have been saved by “prompt attention [that] would have prevented the premature labor.” she's filing a wrongful death suit.
sidenote: i never know how i feel about granting "wrongful death" to fetuses, which helps to blur that line between personhood and viability, which i think helps to blur the lines in the abortion debate, but that's another story.
the worst part, i think, is that the culpable parties aren't just those two arresting officers who ignored the needs of a woman in distress. they took her to a police station where dozens of public servants put the fact that a woman had rapsheet ahead of her need for medical attention. talk about not inspiring confidence in the men and women who serve and protect in kansas city.
this story out of the kansas city star, as reported at broadsheet, is heinous in every sense of the word. a woman was pulled over for driving with faked temporary plates, and after running her name, officers found outstanding warrants with fines totalling nearly $5000. great. just cause for arrest.
except for the fact that the woman was bleeding and told the officers she feared she was having a miscarriage. they ignored her pleas, took her into custody for 12 hours, and took her to the hospital only after she started passing enormous clots of blood. they were nice enough to give her several changes of pants, since she was consistently bleeding through the ones she came with.
long story short, she lost the four-month-old fetus, which doctors say could have been saved by “prompt attention [that] would have prevented the premature labor.” she's filing a wrongful death suit.
sidenote: i never know how i feel about granting "wrongful death" to fetuses, which helps to blur that line between personhood and viability, which i think helps to blur the lines in the abortion debate, but that's another story.
the worst part, i think, is that the culpable parties aren't just those two arresting officers who ignored the needs of a woman in distress. they took her to a police station where dozens of public servants put the fact that a woman had rapsheet ahead of her need for medical attention. talk about not inspiring confidence in the men and women who serve and protect in kansas city.
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