person with individual rights, you can be arrested, crimin criminalized and prosecuted. if there is death to a fetus or any harm. when you think about it, 15 to 20% of women who become pregnant experience a pregnancy loss. all of these women when they have an abortion or a miscarriage or stillbirth all benefit from roe vs. wade and are all deserving of their constitutional rights and human rights and dignity and respect. they are not getting it. yes. that s where you come in. this is ann williams for national advocates for pregnant women to fight against the criminalization of pregnancy. a phrase too crazy to admit is real. when are we talk about mississippi specifically, a mississippi woman who is born and black and a mother and a wife and had a pregnancy loss had stillbirth at home. the grand jury indicts a mother for killing her newborn.
there are a lot of reasons why a woman in her situation would have a home birth. what is happening because of the concept that comes out of your vagina, you are responsible for it and you have to guarantee everything is perfect about it. she is being prosecute and criminalized. that s also true of a lot of other women like angela carter who is a woman who had been battling cancer for many years and ended up pregnant. because she was pregnant, she was 26 weeks pregnant decided we have to save the baby. not her. so over her objections and family s objections and treating ob s objections, they got a court order and performed a c-section and the baby came out and lived for two hours. she died two days later. that s d.c. that s not mississippi. and that s like i don t want anyone to think it s just
was said long ago. legalize it. warrick wants to allow it to sold and taxed in a way that monitors how alcohol is sold and taxed. it is a little more complicated than that because of a little thing call the federal government. and he is tasked with ill plemting the new law, new law a professor of public policy at ucla and author of marijuana cost of abuse, cost of control. welcome, mark. you re advising washington state on how to implement their new law. what are you doing? what are you advising? such that the law is implemented and people behave in a way that is responsible? and is not about we want more people to get high but we don t want people who are committing nonviolent offenses to be crimin criminalized? right. we don t want hundreds of millions of dollars in washington state going to revenues. i m not sure what did the report you just quoted, but anybody who thought there was $46 billion in available in revenues has been