#TakeRoot13: Depriving People of their Personhood
Panel from Take Root conference, red state perspectives on reproductive justice. Took place in Norman, Oklahoma, February 15 and 16, 2013.
- This mixed format session features discussion and individual panelist presentations about dehumanization experienced during pregnancy, transition, travel, and documentation processes.
- Panelists: Lynn Paltrow, Valeria Cruz, Toby Beauchamp
- Moderator: Julia Earhardt
Depriving Ppl of Their Personhood starting w/ @LynnPaltrow, Valeria Cruz of @OK4RJ, & Toby Beauchamp of OSU #takeroot13
In the Depriving People of their Personhood Panel at #takeroot13 with Lynn Paltrow of @NAPW, Valeria Cruz, and Toby Beauchamp.
Lynn Paltrow of Ntnl Advo for Preg Women on Personhood Amend& how they impede on human rights. deprive women of their personhood #takeroot13- Giving fetuses and embryos legal rights will deprive women of their constitutional personhood @lynnpaltrow #takeroot13
- @NAPW spent 8 years studying cases where women's liberty is taken away during their pregnancy. #takeroot13
Pregnant people have every other constitutional and human right besides their reproductive rights. #takeroot13- There are 2 groups working in Oklahoma: @OK4RJ and @OCRJpinkwave. Different but both working on reproductive issues. #takeroot13
- @NAPW found 413 cases in 44 states since 1973 to 2005 where preg. people were arrested, detained, and had forced interventions. #takeroot13
- If you care about RJ, you must understand the war on drugs and prison industrial complex. They are connected. - @LynnPaltrow #takeroot13
- Women who were in these cases were overwhelming disadvantaged in some way. #takeroot13
- peak of arrest and forced intervention of preg. women happen during warm on drugs. #takeroot13 look at the intersections!
There is no way to add fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses to the constitution without subtracting pregnant women @LynnPaltrow #takeroot13- Personhood and other laws create a new class under the law for pregnant women. This is the basis of #NewJaneCrow. #takeroot13
- .@lynnpaltrow drops jaws as she talks about @napw's new study, #personhood not just about abortion; it's about wmn's personhood #takeroot13
- It's not just about abortion. It's about women's status as people and persons under the law. #takeroot13
- Recommends Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow to better understand connection among RJ & the war of drugs @LynnPaltrow #takeroot13
- The prison industrial complex is hungry to keep its jails full. Partly why pregnant women are being criminalized for drug use. #takeroot13
- Separate & unequal: In Indiana, suicide not a crime unless you're pregnant @FreeBeiBei @NAPW #takeroot13
- The Bei Bei Shuai case in Indiana is an example of the new separate and unequal laws for pregnant people. #takeroot13
no system of prison industrial complex in 73 when roe v wade passed. preg women = seperate unequal #takeroot13 http://pic.twitter.com/l65XDEvX
