If you outlaw women’s right to choose, women who choose will become outlaws

I think I underestimated the slippery slope.
Echidne of the Snakes links to this article at RHRealityCheck concerning a recent study (downloadable at the site) about the way courts, police and doctors have increasingly stuck their nose into women’s lives because the woman was pregnant.
•A pregnant woman who tried to kill herself was charged with murder.
•A woman in Utah who refused a C-section was charged with murder when one of her babies was stillborn.
•A Tennessee woman was pulled over for a sobriety check, and passed. But she had some blood alcohol and she was pregnant, so the cop arrested her anyway.
•A woman in Florida disagreed with her doctor’s recommendation she needed to stay in bed for a couple of weeks, pointing out she was a working single mother. After the woman, Samantha Burton, said she was going to get a second opinion, the doctor had her forcibly confined to bed for the health of her baby.A Florida court agreed without having the woman present for the hearing (they held a phone hearing) and not allowing her any legal representation—which was okay because, after all, it was only confining her to the hospital for a short time (and forbidding her to switch hospitals. And telling her that whatever treatment the hospital decided on—a C-section, for instance—is authorized).
•Or there’s the pharmacist in Idaho who was asked to prescribe a drug to treat bleeding after abortions, miscarriages and pregnancy. The pharmacist told the nurse she suspected the patient was post-abortion and therefore wouldn’t provide the drug, courtesy of the state conscience clause (presumably because if the slutty slut had an abortion, the pharmacist thought she deserved to bleed to death).
I’ve known for a number of years that lots of people are anti-abortion and anti-woman both, indeed seeing them as two sides of the same coin—women should submit to male rule and those who refuse to accept their god-given status as baby-making slaves should be punished. And preferably forced into their proper role, not even allowed to vote.
I did not, however, despite reading stories like the ones recounted in the study, realize quite how bad it had gotten. It’s not only abortion or birth control, it’s the very right of a woman to make medical decisions—which is a basic legal right, I note. Do you disagree with your doctor on the need for a caesarian? Call the police! Are you suicidal because you can’t take antidepressants during pregnancy (not a hypothetical, this came up with someone I know)? No problem, we’ll just confine you until the baby’s born. My acquaintance got an abortion—if it happened today, maybe they wouldn’t let her, even though it’s her legal right.
Judging from the report, concerns over the woman are non-existant. Some women have lost jobs because they were detained over health risks. And I doubt Todd Akin and his “legitimate rape” cohort will feel that forcing a woman to bear a rapist’s child obligates the state to help pay her ob/gyn bills. After all, if it was really rape she wouldn’t have gotten pregnant so we’re back in slutland again.
Reading the study drives home what other feminists have said and what the authors restate: “There is no way to add fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses to state constitutions or to the United States Constitution without removing all pregnant women from the community of constitutional persons.”