texastribune.org/2023/08/11/texas-prison-lawsuit-fetal-rights

On a warm November night, Salia Issa had just begun her shift as an Abilene prison officer when she felt the intense pain of what she believed was a contraction.

Seven months pregnant, Issa said she quickly alerted her supervisors. She told them she needed to go to the hospital but knew prison policy wouldn’t allow her to leave her post until someone could replace her.

No one came for hours.

Issa kept calling for relief, but her supervisor repeatedly refused her, even telling her she was lying, according to a federal lawsuit filed against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and prison officials.

Here’s the kicker:

But the prison agency and the Texas attorney general's office, which has staked its reputation on "defending the unborn" all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, are arguing the agency shouldn't be held responsible for the stillbirth because staff didn't break the law. Plus, they said, it's not clear that Issa's fetus had rights as a person.

"Just because several statutes define an individual to include an unborn child does not mean that the Fourteenth Amendment does the same," the Texas attorney general's office wrote in a March footnote, referring to the constitutional right to life.

This f***ing state I swear to God.

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