Letter from Ron Bishop
Avoid Decline in Women’s Health
On March 20 of this year, two tragedies struck Selena Maria Chandler-Scott. The first was that she miscarried her much-wanted baby, a soul-wrenching trauma that impacts about one-eighth of expectant women. Found unconscious from blood loss, she was taken to a local hospital. There the second tragedy hit, when District Attorney Patrick Warren of Tift County, Georgia brought charges against her for her pregnancy gone wrong. They were eventually dropped when an autopsy determined that the miscarriage was natural, but not before extra suffering had been inflicted on Selena and her family. Women and men there are not offered the same legal presumption of innocence under the law.
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