▲ 296 ▼ Texas questions rights of a fetus after a prison guard who had a stillborn baby sues (apnews.com) submitted 3 years ago by bingbong@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 36 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 30 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yeah. This struck me as depraved and insane that an employee could not leave work for more than 2 hours for medical reasons. How completely bozotic. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 13 points 3 years ago (2 children) Probably so understaffed to cut costs that her leaving would leave the prisoners unsupervised. Mammon rejoices. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 3 years ago (2 children) If she's having a medical emergency, is she capable of supervising the prisoners? Seems to me like they were unsupervised whether she was there or not. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago Exactly. Swap out the pregnant woman having pains with a man having a possible heart attack. Saying "sorry, but you can't leave for to go to the hospital for at least 2 hours" would be a massive violation of that worker's civil rights and would open the employer to a huge lawsuit. Of course, the added "fetus' rights" element just exposes the hypocrisy of the Texas government. When it benefits them, every fetus is a full blown person and doing anything that could hurt said fetus is murder. However, when it doesn't benefit them, then the fetus has no rights and contributing to its death should have no legal repercussions whatsoever. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago They don't actually give a shit as long as there is an ass in a chair and a stamp in the logs. Unless something goes wrong, then it would have been her fault. permalink fedilink source parent [–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) Aka literally any security, police, EMS, or really any first responder work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago Too fucking right. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 13 points 3 years ago (2 children) Probably so understaffed to cut costs that her leaving would leave the prisoners unsupervised. Mammon rejoices. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 3 years ago (2 children) If she's having a medical emergency, is she capable of supervising the prisoners? Seems to me like they were unsupervised whether she was there or not. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago Exactly. Swap out the pregnant woman having pains with a man having a possible heart attack. Saying "sorry, but you can't leave for to go to the hospital for at least 2 hours" would be a massive violation of that worker's civil rights and would open the employer to a huge lawsuit. Of course, the added "fetus' rights" element just exposes the hypocrisy of the Texas government. When it benefits them, every fetus is a full blown person and doing anything that could hurt said fetus is murder. However, when it doesn't benefit them, then the fetus has no rights and contributing to its death should have no legal repercussions whatsoever. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago They don't actually give a shit as long as there is an ass in a chair and a stamp in the logs. Unless something goes wrong, then it would have been her fault. permalink fedilink source parent [–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) Aka literally any security, police, EMS, or really any first responder work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago Too fucking right. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 3 years ago (2 children) If she's having a medical emergency, is she capable of supervising the prisoners? Seems to me like they were unsupervised whether she was there or not. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago Exactly. Swap out the pregnant woman having pains with a man having a possible heart attack. Saying "sorry, but you can't leave for to go to the hospital for at least 2 hours" would be a massive violation of that worker's civil rights and would open the employer to a huge lawsuit. Of course, the added "fetus' rights" element just exposes the hypocrisy of the Texas government. When it benefits them, every fetus is a full blown person and doing anything that could hurt said fetus is murder. However, when it doesn't benefit them, then the fetus has no rights and contributing to its death should have no legal repercussions whatsoever. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago They don't actually give a shit as long as there is an ass in a chair and a stamp in the logs. Unless something goes wrong, then it would have been her fault. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago Exactly. Swap out the pregnant woman having pains with a man having a possible heart attack. Saying "sorry, but you can't leave for to go to the hospital for at least 2 hours" would be a massive violation of that worker's civil rights and would open the employer to a huge lawsuit. Of course, the added "fetus' rights" element just exposes the hypocrisy of the Texas government. When it benefits them, every fetus is a full blown person and doing anything that could hurt said fetus is murder. However, when it doesn't benefit them, then the fetus has no rights and contributing to its death should have no legal repercussions whatsoever. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago They don't actually give a shit as long as there is an ass in a chair and a stamp in the logs. Unless something goes wrong, then it would have been her fault. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) Aka literally any security, police, EMS, or really any first responder work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago Too fucking right. permalink fedilink source parent