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[quote=Anonymous]As women find it harder and harder to afford health care, and pregnancy prevention, they will have more problems and resort to hiding pregnancy. More issues like this will happen:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/virginia-woman-given-a-jail-sentence-for-concealing-a-dead-body-after-her-stillbirth.html

"In a small town in southern Virginia, in February of 2016, a young woman had a stillbirth. Katherine Dellis was 30 to 32 weeks pregnant when she passed out in her bathroom. When she woke up, the fetus was lying next to her on the bathroom floor. She wrapped the remains in a bathmat, put it in a trash bag, and put another trash bag around it. Her father, oblivious to what was inside, deposited the bag in a public dumpster, according to court documents."

"Later, at an emergency room, the physician treating Dellis heard her story and called the police. An autopsy would later reveal that the fetus’ lungs had never breathed air, confirming that it had expired before leaving the womb. Even so, Dellis was arrested and charged with a felony. Her crime? Concealing a dead body. Dellis entered a conditional guilty plea that allowed her attorney to continue arguing that the statute she supposedly violated does not apply to her case. One year after her stillbirth, she was sentenced to five months in jail."

"The opinion is unpublished, which means it cannot be cited as precedent in future court cases. But the argument it advances—that a fetus that has never lived outside a womb should be treated the same as a human being who has—is troubling. In recent years, several states have enacted regulations requiring fetal tissue from abortions to be buried, “entombed,” or “cremated.” Such laws in Texas and Indiana have been permanently blocked by federal judges."

"These laws, and the Virginia Court of Appeals’ ruling on the case of Katherine Dellis, <b>also give credence to the idea that fetuses deserve the same rights as living people. More than 90 percent of abortions in the U.S. take place within the first 13 weeks of pregnancy, when the average fetus is less than 3 inches long. A state that requires anything akin to death rites for fetal tissue is one step closer to arguing, as “personhood” laws do, that these fetuses have a right to tax-free college savings accounts, that contraception is murder, and that embryos should be able to sue the woman from whose egg they developed."</b>[/quote]

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