All pregnant women need to concealed carry..... this issue would quickly go away....
I can relate. Total strangers have grabbed at me in the past and anymore I just fend them off if I see them coming. No idea why people think they’re entitled to touch me when I’m pregnant when they’d never do this if I weren’t.
Touching a pregnant woman's belly was always a sort of affectionate sign of support and shared joy of the impending birth of a child. And why do Liberals care anyway other than it gives them one more thing to whine about. Most don't want to carry a child to term anyway so they won't have to worry about this.
Just one more sign our society is turning sour.
Oh boy, are liberals now so stupid we have to explain this to them?
That said, back in the stone age 50's and 60's, when my mom and her friends were having kids, I don't remember people doing this. It seems to have come into vogue with New Age, Alan Alda, Dr. Phil era. Except for my wife, I would never rub a pregnant woman's belly without permission. But I can't see charging someone with a crime unless they are a stranger creeping out a lady.
There is a universal legal defense.
Just say you’re an abortionist.
Back in the day if someone laid hands on a woman, pregnant or not, he'd have to answer to the husband.
Now women aren't property any more. Or maybe they are? Community property. And a village has a lot of hands.
So touching an elbow or thigh is ok?
I never did this. But I love their little hands and tiny fingers.
Is it still legal if you don’t know they’re pregnant?
What kind of creepy moron rubs a stranger’s belly anyway?
And then after they’re born the old ladies want to touch them. I would carry my little girl in a sling so they couldn’t get at her. It got worse once her hair turned red, everyone wanted to touch her. Sorry, she’s not a dog, and I bite.
My sister had her co-workers do that to her all the time when she was pregnant with my very large nephew. She would ask them not to but they would say, “It’s good luck!” and paw at her stomach anyway. Finally, when someone rubbed her belly, she clutched her hands over her stomach, hunched over, and moaned.
It stopped right away.
I must not be as grumpy as most women. If people wanted to rub my belly when I was pregnant it didn’t bother me at all. Also didn’t mind them wanting to touch the baby once it was born.
Many years ago, I saw an episode of “The Tonight Show”, with Bob Newhart as one of the guests. Johnny Carson announced to the audience that the Newharts were going to have a baby. The audience immediately began appluading, with Bob Newhart waving them off, saying: “Thanks, it was my pleasure.”