War Against Women: Tennessee Edition

Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:39 am by Bob Cesca

Harming an embryo might soon be a criminal offense in Tennessee:

Tennessee has long had a law that allowed prosecutors to charge someone for harming a “viable fetus” — defined as about the 32nd week after conception — when someone kills or assaults a pregnant woman. Last year, lawmakers expanded that definition to apply to any fetus.

Now, they’re looking to criminalize harm to embryos, the cells that are formed before a fetus develops eight weeks after conception. Proponents of the bill say it would clarify last year’s expanded fetal harm bill, but critics say it will be difficult to prosecute because some pregnancies end naturally at that stage.

Don’t hurt that embryo — unless it develops into a baby and is birthed into the world. Then it’s on its own. No healthcare, no social safety net. Nothing.

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  • Brutlyhonest

    I’m waiting for them to prosecute teh jeebus baby for every miscarriage …

  • janefromhell

    Not only that, let’s send those babies to fight wars and give them the death penalty.

  • muselet

    Including Tennessee, 38 states have fetal homicide laws — 23 of which apply to the earliest stages of pregnancy. As a result of these laws, some women are being unfairly charged with harming their unborn children when they lose their babies during pregnancy.

    Feature, not bug. Gotta keep the wimmenfolk in their place, ya know.

    Seriously, though, criminalizing harm to embryos? A woman who has a drink or smokes a cigarette while a blastocyst drifts down one of her fallopian tubes could be held criminally liable under such a law, let alone a woman who seeks an abortion. And how do they propose enforcing this law? State-mandated examinations of every woman of—please forgive the expression—breeding age?

    The tiny-brained, tiny-penised sociopaths who write these bills need to be removed from all positions of power and authority before more people are hurt.

    –alopecia