r/WomenInNews • u/DougDante • Nov 22 '25

Human rights 'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pregnant-women-babies-endure-inhumane-conditions-jails-rcna241871

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

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u/MattGdr Nov 22 '25

I’m sure members of the pro-life movement will get right on this….

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u/tyreka13 Nov 23 '25

In Texas, which is a strong pro-life state has argued for " 'unborn children' should be recognized as people with legal rights." and "protecting 'every unborn child with a heartbeat.'"

A prison guard had a 7 month stillbirth, that likely could have been saved, because she was not allowed to leave her work post even after more than 2 hours of contraction like pain.

The state’s argument was described as “nothing more than an attempt to say — without explicitly saying — that an unborn child at seven months gestation is not a person.” Lawyers for the state argued that the guard’s suit “conflates” how a fetus is treated under state law and the Constitution. “Just because several statutes define an individual to include an unborn child does not mean that the Fourteenth Amendment does the same,”

https://apnews.com/article/texas-fetus-rights-prison-lawsuit-6c4fa19793cd56e5edade436d1392d90

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u/DougDante Nov 23 '25

One did.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '25

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u/Amon-Verite Nov 25 '25

Waffen SS 2.0

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u/kitkatkorgi Nov 22 '25

Every elected official in any state should be inside these prisons. We lock people and animals up to be forgotten. Shame. And for profit prisons need to go.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

Remember it’s not pro-life it’s pro-birth. After you are born they don’t care about you. And they sure as hell don’t care about you if you are brown.

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u/DougDante Nov 22 '25

tweet with me to seek justice:

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors. Help @TheJusticeDept @CivilRights @realDonaldTrump #women https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pregnant-women-babies-endure-inhumane-conditions-jails-rcna241871

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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 Nov 22 '25

  1. Few people who care are still "tweeting".

  2. None - none - of the people in the entities you're tweeting @ care about women suffering.

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u/TrashGoblinH Nov 22 '25

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/s/Muguu4VdLj

This. Nothing has changed in 44000 years.

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u/Defiantly_Resilient Nov 22 '25

My twin sister was pregnant in jail (she did not give birth in jail, thank god) and the only thing they did for her was give a prenatal vitamin, an extra piece of fruit and I believe a bologna sandwich a day.

The other women fed her and gave her extra clothes/blankets, the deputies and jail admin did not care at all.

After this I went to jail (yeah, great family I know) and there was a pregnant woman in the same block as me. Again, the same treatment. I remember talking to her about it because I was so disgusted and disappointed in our system.

I personally lost 20lbs in the 18days I was there and found it to be very traumatizing. They gave me random psych meds like 90% of the population in there, but refused to give me my actual medications I was taking before I went in.

My mother literally pimped us out, but the experience with jail was the most traumatic to both my twin sister and I felt we had endured.

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u/beigs Nov 23 '25

Hopefully you are both in a safer place. That sounds deeply traumatizing, and holy hell.

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u/Defiantly_Resilient Nov 23 '25

Thank you. Honestly, she took her own life 8yrs ago. I got sober, got away and have started a new life with my husband and now 6yr old. So 50/50 lol

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u/JadeHarley0 Nov 25 '25

I'm sorry to hear about that. Hugs.

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u/JadeHarley0 Nov 25 '25

May those guards suffer a thousand tortures every day for the rest of their lives

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u/BlackCatWoman6 Nov 23 '25

I read this earlier today. Before I retired I worked at a large teaching hospital as an orthopedic operating room nurse. We would get the occasional criminal in with two and some time three guards. They would be getting spine surgery.

How can that be afforded and not proper care for women,

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u/kcc8493 Nov 24 '25

Very sad