Policing the Womb


That is the title of an upcoming book by this author. She has complied all the cases she can find of law enforcement prosecuting pregnant women for a variety of reasons all the while saying it was to "protect the fetus."

"Policing the womb" is such an appropriate phrase for the vigilantes that want to tell women precisely how they are to eat, exercise, work and maybe pray. Once the law determines a fertilized cell is a human being the floodgates of regulation of pregnant women will open.

I'm curious as to what rights of privacy pregnant women will have if the fetus they carry is determined by politics to be a human being. Will they have privacy in the food they eat, their exercise and work schedule? Further, will their be rules about who they live with. It is not out of the question for Christian busy bodies to require that if a man is in the house it must be a husband. They would use the bogus argument that children are better off with two heterosexual parents. Will law enforcement do "spot checks" and look in the refrigerator to see if there is any beer there?

Perhaps there will be workshops and training programs for policing the womb. Anti abortion doctors may make a good living giving instructions of all the details to watch for in the private lives of pregnant women.

The annual reports of police departments can site all the women they prosecuted for at home miscarriages. Finding papers with at home abortion instructions or evidence the woman visited web site with these instructions will gain bonuses for detectives.

I wish I could say I'm exaggerating here.  A look at what is happening today says I am not.

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  1. Ardy BJuly 3, 2019 at 3:28 PM

    Jon wrote, "I wish I could say I'm exaggerating here." The current state of our surveillance society is child's play. How about life long microchip implants in pubescent girls to detect a fertilized ovum (a zygote), The chip monitors the biochemistry of the female subject in order to capture information about the course of her pregnancy and life style. It also transmits the information in real time to the Zygote Zealot Womb Police. Add to that implanted GPS capability to monitor the woman's movements and location. Technically this sort of surveillance is right around the corner. The political will for this extreme invasion of a woman's privacy "to protect the fetus" is alive and well in many states, including North Dakota. Sad.

    [1]“Diagnostic Biochip's suite of neural sensors are engineered to deliver unprecedented precision measurements in electrophysiology and in vivo biochemistry.”, http://www.diagnosticbiochips.com .

    [2]“Tech firm Three Square Market (32M) announced that it’s working on a voice-activated, body-heat powered chip that will be able to monitor a person’s vital signs and track them via GPS, especially for people suffering with Alzheimer’s and dementia.”, https://www.brecorder.com/2018/08/25/435018/tech-firm-aims-to-implant-gps-tracker-in-dementia-patients/

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    1. Jon LindgrenJuly 3, 2019 at 5:30 PM

      Just what the anti abortion folks have been praying for.

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  2. tsmJuly 3, 2019 at 6:30 PM

    I'm not aware of this particular development in the Brave New Surveillance World. Am not sure if it has to do with pregnancy as such. But I do know that there is a lot of talk these days of imbedded chips, social credit monitoring (as in the Peoples Republic of China), designer babies, brain implants, whatever. Needless to say this is stuff that should scare the B'Jesus out of thoughtful people, whether pro-abortion or prolife. It's all done, of course, in the interests of making us healthy, more secure all that. Beware, beware of do-gooders (often totalitarian minded folks intent on saving us from ourselves).

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    1. Ardy BJuly 4, 2019 at 8:16 AM

      Unknown, I hope you're having a relaxing holiday. The two examples of companies I cited are developing technologies that could potentially enable the monitoring of the female reproduction cycle. This type of monitoring at this point is of course hypothetical. Your point that this technology should scare the B'Jesus out of us is well taken. Even if prohibited by law certain advancements in science and technology somehow manage to creep into our lives. There's no permission like prohibition. I enjoyed your post.

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