So an adoption lawyer in Texas just got caught trying to buy fetuses from incarcerated women and sell them to prospective parents.
Fetal personhood meets adoption trafficking meets the prison industrial complex.
Yikes, y’all. Yikes.
Grace Howard, PhD
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Grace Howard, PhD
@ProfGraceHoward
Professor. Expert in criminalization of pregnancy. Queer. A real piece of work. She/they. Sunburns easily. Author of The Pregnancy Police.
Joined January 2022
- I’ve seen LMP used as evidence in criminal cases to prove that a preg person endangered their fetus “knowingly.” Patients need to be careful what they say, and ethical healthcare providers need to be careful of what information they gather and how they document it.
- Replying to @iamlaurasaurusBecause of who I am and what I represent to her, I can’t really even be in my mom’s presence without making her angry.
- Replying to @LeahNTorresThank you for this! I’ve evaluated and analyzed hundreds of arrests of folks for crimes against their own pregnancies in Alabama. Findings are in my forthcoming book The Pregnancy Police.
- Replying to @ProfGraceHowardVery worried that the pregnant folks will be facing charges.
- Replying to @jjfitzgeraldMD and @SPuro88My first gay president.
- Replying to @GeniusbastardYes. If I wanted to be a cop, I woulda become a cop, ya know?
- Replying to @SaliferousGamesYeah, but they were doing the buying and selling pre-birth apparently?
- Replying to @Show713 and @The_AcumenIt’s called humanity.
- Replying to @ProfGraceHowardI guess usually we just wait until they are born and then we traffic them.
- Yes! I saw she was doing international adoptions but got shut down. What a creep.
- A different decision on today’s mife case would have even further damaged the legitimacy of the court. Today wasn’t about abortion, it was about self preservation. Not a victory, a status quo. Keep your game faces on, babes.
- Replying to @MoiraDoneganHe’s so clearly unrepentant. He shouldn’t be representing anyone, anywhere.
- Replying to @DevonBuildHappy and @providenceluvrI mean I guess the good news is a lot of these aren’t emergencies at all and so you can just like… listen to your patient.