Comments on: Immigrant Woman Abused By Government While Giving Birth

By: City Councilman Promoted Violent Anti-Immigrant Video Game at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:31:13 +0000

[...] anti-immigrant sentiments of public officials from the actual violent and abusive treatment that undocumented immigrants face at the hands of our government. From what I can tell, it doesn’t sound like Dowdy was in a [...]

By: City Councilman Promoted Violent Anti-Immigrant Video Game : The Curvature

City Councilman Promoted Violent Anti-Immigrant Video Game : The Curvature — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:05:21 +0000

[...] violent anti-immigrant sentiments of public officials from the actual violent and abusive treatment that undocumented immigrants face at the hands of our government. From what I can tell, it doesn’t sound like Dowdy was [...]

By: john

john — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:57:17 +0000

This if true’ a very sick individual who needs jailed for life if this happened to this woman if or even close” humanity superceeds the badge in authority and hope only humane individuals are granted badges’ if not its a failure of the citizens to allow this .

By: konstanze

konstanze — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:31:18 +0000

Too many people seem to forget or attempt to erase the fact that immigration status has nothing to do with a person’s status as a human being.

Yes. This needs to be plastered on billboards.

By: Immigrant Woman Abused During Labour « Medical and Obstetric Rape Awareness Group

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:38:51 +0000

[...] 18, 2008 by Debi Crow Please see The Curvature for more on this case, which definitely, at least to me, amounts to birth rape. Just the male [...]

By: Tali

Tali — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:44:22 +0000

It’s funny – I’ve been reading a lot lately about human rights abuses against immigrants, a topic that certainly does not lack for horrifying, disgusting stories. But this is the first to actually make me cry. The thought of giving birth while handcuffed to the hospital bed is just sickening.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:31:25 +0000

Having lived in Nashville, within which the city of Berry Hill finds itself, and having been stopped and harassed by their somewhat less than upstanding police dpeartment on two occasions, this doesn’t surprise me one iota. Every BH cop I’ve encountered reeks of misogynism. Seriously.

By: GallingGalla

GallingGalla — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:07:53 +0000

The police raped her, plain and simple.

And there’s commenters at Latina Lista who are going on and on that she deserved this because “OMG, she broke the law!!!!”

Yeah, right, because driving without a license is FAR FAR FAR worse than state-sponsored terrorism and rape. /snark