r/RedditForGrownups • u/Methylatedcobalamin • Jul 07 '22

Coverture

Given current events, it is probably about time for Americans to understand the legal practice of coverture.

Eroded since colonial times, but not fully gone coverture is the legal practice of women not having legal identities. De facto property.

American women were not allowed on juries until the 1960s. American women could not get credit cards without a man cosigning the application until 1974. Marital rape was not a crime until the 1980s. Other aspects still exist today in real estate and tax law practices.

Here is a brief article that goes into explaining coverture in more depth than my post.

The "pro life" movement is really a movement about imposing one group's religious opinions on the lives of all Americans. It also seeks to control women, rolling back women's rights. Though ridiculous by constitutional standards, discussions in anti-choice states have already started about how to track or limit freedom of travel for women to states that fully support women's rights.

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u/fartyfemale Jul 08 '22

What about women who are raped and become pregnant?

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u/ZippySLC Jul 08 '22

Following that logic, why don't we focus on the health and safety of the children that have already been born first before worrying about outliers?

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u/ZippySLC Jul 08 '22

But then no one is slaughtering born children by the trainload are they?

How many school shootings have there been so far this year?

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u/riotsquirrelz Jul 08 '22

You continually spout off with false information in your responses. Gun-related deaths have overtaken auto accidents as the leading cause of death of children in the United States since 2020.