This Woman Was Placed In An Alabama Prison For A Stillbirth
In 2008, Amanda Kimbrough experienced one of the most horrible things an expectant mother can ever face: Her son Timmy was born and then died 19 minutes later. The child had been stillborn, and the memory still haunts Amanda to this day:
Tim Jr would be six years old [today]. And not a day goes by I don’t think of him.
Amanda Kimbrough was incarcerated in one of the toughest prisons in Alabama due to the stillbirth of her son. How is that possible? Well, Alabama prosecuted Kimbrough under the statute of “chemical endangerment” of her fetus due to her recurring struggle with drug addiction. She was even charged with a class A felony – the equivalent of murder – and taken all the way to trial. This is thought to be the only full trial hearing of its sort anywhere in the United States….READ MORE at LiberalAmerica
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By: Andrew Bradford
Andrew Bradford is an author, academic, and political activist who lives in Atlanta. He is a Senior Writer for Liberal America and also has his own blog at deepleftfield.info
5 responses to This Woman Was Placed In An Alabama Prison For A Stillbirth
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Suzanne McFly October 7th, 2015 at 14:24
Sure, put addicts in jail. That always ends well and they come out at the end of the sentence as a clean addict who learned how to live day to day with this addiction and will work at becoming a better human and citizen……./s……jic.
rg9rts October 7th, 2015 at 16:47
Welcome to Alabama
Merlin October 7th, 2015 at 16:53
The southern states have woken up to a fascist government. Good luck with those reslug voting machines Alabamians!
amersham46 October 7th, 2015 at 18:52
Alabama welcomes you to the 17th century form of justice
Allison Renée Alworth October 7th, 2015 at 21:53
What a bunch of ignorant imbeciles! The woman obviously needed help with her addiction and pregnancy, and nobody could help her? These people running these wacko states with harsh penalties probably would say that they want people taking personal responsibility for their actions, as long as it’s other people taking the responsibility, not the people running the states.