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Re:Woman who was shot while pregnant is charged in fetus's d... by DoreenMichele on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:15PM (#20307254)
I can't access this article. I've read another one about the case (Washington Post) and it doesn't really get into the cause of the fight.

But it sounds to me like the root cause is probably misogyny and what a lot of people would decry as "the evils of patriarchy."

As best I can infer, some guy got a woman pregnant that he wasn't married to. Before the baby is even born, he's keeping company with some other woman, probably de facto abandoning the pregnant woman and their child in the process. The two women fought. The fetus died.

He's not likely to ever be charged with anything. We are just going to argue about which woman he was screwing should be hung high.

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Re:Woman who was shot while pregnant is charged in fetus's d... by hirundo on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:18PM (#20307908)
Particularly given that your scenario includes no allegation of rape, it seems that you're draining these women of moral agency and responsibility for their actions. Such infantalization of women is hard to distinguish from misogyny.
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Re:Woman who was shot while pregnant is charged in fetus's d... by DoreenMichele on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:11PM (#20308382)
The woman being charged is Black. How much agency do you think a poor Black woman living in a backwards Southern state should be expected to have in a world that increasingly wants to criminalize abortion, among other things?

Blacks and women: it's your fault your lives don't work. We don't want to talk about systemic issues, like how we think all men are entitled to sex and are not to be held responsible for the consequences of their actions. If your life gets ruined because he knocked you up and promptly bailed, well, bitch, it's your fault for spreading your legs, clearly.

Next!

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Re:Woman who was shot while pregnant is charged in fetus's d... by masonic on Saturday June 29, 2019 @06:17AM (#20311759) 

  a poor Black woman
The article says nothing about her economic status aside from stating that she successfully posted a $50,000 bond and was released. Assuming that she is poor because she is black is racist.
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