Outcry in America as pregnant women who lose babies face murder charges

advocates for women is the progressive criminalization of pregnant women, as a new front in the culture war on abortion

Rennie Gibbs is responsible for murder, but the crime is alleged to have committed a crime does not look common. However, faced with life in Mississippi for the death of her unborn child.

Gibbs became pregnant 15 years, but lost the baby in December 2006 in a stillborn child when she was 36 weeks pregnant. When prosecutors discovered that he had a cocaine addiction - although there is evidence that drug abuse had something to do with the death of the baby - who accused him of "depraved heart" murder his son, leading a mandatory

Gibbs was the first woman in Mississippi when he was accused of murder in connection with the loss of your unborn baby. But his case is not isolated. In the U.S. more treatment and more are being taken to try to turn pregnant women criminals.

"Women are deprived of their constitutional personality and is subject to the laws really cruel," said Lynn Paltrow of National Advocates for campaign for pregnant women (NAPWA). "It is transforming women speakers in a different kind of person and the elimination of their rights. "

Bei Bei Shuai, 34, has spent the last three months in a prison cell in Indianapolis accused of murdering her baby. On December 23, attempted suicide by taking rat poison after her boyfriend left her.

Shuai was taken to hospital and survived, but was 33 weeks pregnant and her baby, she gave birth a week after the suicide attempt and called Angel died after four days. In March Shuai has been charged with murder and attempted feticide and has been in custody since without the offer of bail.

In Alabama at least 40 cases have been filed with the state of "chemical risk" of the law. Introduced in 2006, the law was designed to protect children whose parents were cooking in the house of methamphetamine and put their children at risk of inhaling the fumes.

Amanda Kimbrough is one of the women who were captured as part of the law is applied in a totally different way. During pregnancy, the fetus was diagnosed with Down syndrome is possible and suggested that doctors consider a resolution that refused Kimbrough that it is not for abortion.

The baby was born prematurely by Caesarean section in April 2008 and died 19 minutes after birth.

• Six months later, Kimbrough, was arrested at his home and charged with "dangerous chemicals" of her unborn child on the grounds that he had taken drugs during pregnancy -. A claim she denied
• "That surprised me, it's really not," said Kimbrough. "I had lost a child, that was enough."

It now expects an appeal decision of the courts of Alabama, if you miss a start 10-year sentence behind bars. "I live one day at a time, take care of my three other children," he said. "They say I'm a criminal how I can answer that? I am a good mother."

advocates for women
progressive criminalization of pregnant women, a new front in the culture war on abortion, in which prosecutors conservative undermine hard-won freedoms by law the protection is extended to include fetuses, in some cases from the date of conception. For defense lawyers argued Gibbs in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, in his opinion is meaningless. Under Mississippi law is a crime for any person, except for the mother to get an abortion.

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