{"id":321,"date":"2007-11-20T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/11\/20\/pregnant-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T00:18:00","slug":"pregnant-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/11\/20\/pregnant-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"pregnant in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/178-pregnant.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135148845270480930\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/179-pregnant.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~polisci\/faculty\/ewald_bio.html\">alec<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6047172.stm\">bbc news<\/a>, a vietnamese woman convicted of dealing heroin and ecstasy has become pregnant while being held on death row:<\/p>\n<p>The woman, a 39-year-old convicted heroin trafficker, was being held on death row when she became pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the father of the child is a fellow prisoner who delivered food to the prisoners on death row.<\/p>\n<p>Under Vietnamese law, death sentences for pregnant women must be converted to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>criminal punishment is often a good measure of societal definitions of barbarism. in vietnam, it is apparently considered barbaric to execute a <em>pregnant <\/em>woman by firing squad, but not barbaric to execute a woman who had given birth prior to her incarceration. at least such a policy spares us the tortuous logic needed to justify the alternative &#8212; sparing the woman&#8217;s life until <em>after <\/em>she had given birth, then spiriting the baby away and lining the mother up before the firing squad in a bloody hospital gown. of course, the economists might argue that such a policy creates perverse incentives, giving female death row inmates great incentives to conceive with guards or inmates.<\/p>\n<p>i haven&#8217;t heard of such cases in the states, but plenty of american women give birth in prison every year. for example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birthattendants.org\/\">birth attendants<\/a> run a <a title=\"The Prison Doula Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/pregnant-behind-bars-the-prison-doula-project\">prison doula project<\/a>, providing pregnancy, labor, and post-partum doula services and childbirth education classes to women incarcerated in washington state. a noble human rights effort, i&#8217;d say, and worthy of our support and emulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via alec. according to bbc news, a vietnamese woman convicted of dealing heroin and ecstasy has become pregnant while being held on death row: The woman, a 39-year-old convicted heroin trafficker, was being held on death row when she became pregnant. Police say the father of the child is a fellow prisoner who delivered food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}