Posted on 10/19/2021 4:49:02 PM PDT by Morgana
A 21-year-old woman in Oklahoma has been found guilty of first-degree manslaughter after suffering a miscarriage last year.
On Oct. 5, Brittney Poolaw was sentenced to four years in prison for her 2020 miscarriage. An autopsy on the unborn child revealed it had died at 17 weeks gestation.
Prosecutors on the case blamed Poolaw’s miscarriage on her drug use. However, some advocates for the mother, such as the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, have argued that her conviction is not in line with the law.
“Oklahoma’s murder and manslaughter laws do not apply to miscarriages, which are pregnancy losses that occur before 20 weeks, a point in pregnancy before a fetus is viable (able to survive outside of the womb),” said the NAPW, a non-profit advocacy organization, in a statement on Wednesday.
Under the law, a mother cannot be prosecuted for causing the death of their unborn child “unless the mother committed a crime” that caused its death.
In Oct. 2020, the Lawton Constitution reported that Poolaw was accused of causing her child to be stillborn on January 4, 2020, due to her intravenous methamphetamine use.
An affidavit said the woman, who was 19 at the time, was taken to Comanche County Memorial Hospital after she reportedly gave birth at home, per the report. Poolaw later admitted to medical staff she had consumed meth and marijuana and tested positive for both.
The medical examiner’s report listed the unborn child’s cause of death as intrauterine fetal demise due to maternal meth use, the Constitution reported. A toxicology report on the fetus showed the brain and liver had tested positive for meth and amphetamine.
At trial, however, an OBGYN that testified for the state said that controlled substances may not have directly caused of death for the fetus.
The NAPW also argued that blaming Poolaw’s miscarriage on her use of controlled substances is “contrary to all medical science.”
Nonsense.
Besides, she is here shown convicted. Bad example.
It’s a miscarriage of justice.
Sorry, but while manslaughter is basically accidental, this is purely accidental. If this is the standard then lots of people should be charged including for hurting or killing themselves and others.
This is not an abortion issue.
How many “vax”d moms, and docs of said moms, who miscarry, will be charged with 1st degree manslaughter?
Oh, wait....it’s NEVER the jab.
She didn’t “suffer” the miscarriage, so much as she CAUSED the miscarriage.
It states that she was charged with murder for having a miscarriage.
Millions of women suffer miscarriage and they are not considered murder. They happen and I’ve never heard of a miscarriage as being a deliberately induced event. Those are usually called abortions.
It implies that it happened to her, poor little victim, and then she was unjustly charged with murder for it.
If they had said that she was charged with murder for doing drugs that resulted in the loss of her baby, that would have been more accurate.
The DEATH is accidental.
People with habits 99% of the time continue that habit, bad or not, and no matter how much they’re warned it will likely cause some disaster.
Are people who made their child get a COVID vax going to be charged with manslaughter when the kids die? Or even are permanently damaged by it?
I just don’t think this is right. And people here do turn it into an abortion issue….that she caused an abortion, etc.
So if she kills it intentionally it’s all good, but doing so negligently/recklessly is a crime??
The marginalization of fathers results in mothers being treated as the Owners of the couple’s daughters and sons.
Correspondingly, the couple’s daughters and sons are treated as the Property of the mother, to such an extent that she is even allowed to murder them between conception and birth.
The solution to the problem is empowering fathers.
She acted in a way that caused the death of the baby.
Don’t delude yourself into thinking it’s all about the female. Don’t for a second think all males want their bastard children born and don’t pressure the mother into PP, if not applaud if she wants it.
Hard to explain, but unmistakeable.
That logic of “she caused it” can be applied to myriad things and mean jail time for most of the population.
Most fathers, by default, love their daughters and sons and want to protect and raise them.
Only mothers are authorized to sign abortion contracts to murder the couple’s children between conception and birth.
Only mothers DO sign abortion contracts to murder the couple’s children between conception and birth.
Women do not want men empowered with equal parental rights as them.
They never have.
Thank you for trying to inject some sense into this discussion. It’s sad that so many can’t do that.
I know.
That fact is the root of most ills.
Oh, and females do not naturally love their offspring. FGS, they grow them and bear the pain!
Yes women sign the warrant, but you are deluded if you honestly believe men and boys don’t push for it. Give me a break. In this sex-obsessed age it’s all about all fun and no responsibility.
Men are not immune to immorality. If anything too many love all these arrangements.
You’re welcome.
I just don’t like the liberal domino-effect argument.
Who grows the baby? With her own body? Who knows without question a baby is hers? Who goes through all the pain and danger?
There tends to be a reason for your complaint.
In Oklahoma, a fetus is viable at 20 weeks?
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