Shackling women during labor is illegal. It's been illegal since 2009. Yet it keeps happening over and over and over again.
To be clear: it's illegal in NY, and about 20-some other states too. Still completely legal in a lot of states.
To be clear: it's illegal in NY, and about 20-some other states too. Still completely legal in a lot of states.
https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1385290215179304961
Shackling a woman giving birth: if you can't see what this says about the system from this, I... I don't know what to say. It's such an unambiguous act.
It demonstrates, SO clearly that everyone MUST be able to see it, how we view the people in the system as less than human.
It demonstrates, SO clearly that everyone MUST be able to see it, how we view the people in the system as less than human.
What does it mean to shackle a woman by her hand and foot while she's giving birth?
It means you view her as an animal. You see her as someone who doesn't feel pain, who has inhuman strength, whose drive to escape is so feral she'd jeopardize her own newborn to achieve it.
It means you view her as an animal. You see her as someone who doesn't feel pain, who has inhuman strength, whose drive to escape is so feral she'd jeopardize her own newborn to achieve it.
There is no way you can simultaneously see a woman as a human being and also see her as needing to be shackled while giving birth.
It is such a jaw-dropping act of dehumanization that it still takes my breath away.
And I don't see how it can't take EVERYONE'S breath away.
It is such a jaw-dropping act of dehumanization that it still takes my breath away.
And I don't see how it can't take EVERYONE'S breath away.
We make shackling women in labor illegal.
And correctional officers and police officers just keep doing it.
And correctional officers and police officers just keep doing it.
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