At least one federal court has said that sending police to a woman’s home, taking her into custody while in active labor and near delivery, strapping her legs together and her body down to transport her against her will to a hospital, and then forcing her, without access to counsel or court review to undergo major surgery [Caesarean section] constituted no violation of her civil rights at all. The rationale? If the state can limit women’s access to abortions after viability, it can subject her to the lesser state intrusion of insisting on one method of delivery over another.
Miscarriage of Justice (Lynne M. Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, writing on the “partial-birth” abortion ban in American Prospect)
Meanwhile, once you’ve actually been born, you’re on your own, kid.
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