The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.

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    11 months ago

    I wonder how many people she’s witnessed miscarry or go in to early labour and left locked behind bars without medical attention, “just following orders”. Well, in that line of work surely she can appreciate that her colleagues were just following orders too.

    *this isn’t a defence of the people who “stopped” her from leaving (without any restraint, and she doesn’t even report being threatened with being fired or anything, just told not to go) or of how she was treated, it’s a display of disgust and a pointing out of the hypocrisy of people who choose to actively oppress others for a living and then act all surprised when they get oppressed themselves by the exact same system.