Introduction:
Laws govern the universe. There are physical laws expounded and established by science. Moral laws or codes draw their support and authority from the scriptures and beliefs systems. Social and economic laws cover and explain human behavior and govern social and economic institutions. Political laws or state laws are framed and enforce for running the government machinery and regulating the conduct of the citizens.
Indeed all the affairs in human life are governed by certain rules and regulations that impose limits and disciplines on men living in civilized community. If there are no laws, rules and regulations, there shall be disorder, confusion and chaos in the society: Might shall be right and no body’s life honor and property will be safe. Freedom shall become licentiousness. It is the laws that help in running the machinery of the state smoothly and in discharging its functions satisfactorily and justly.
This report discusses about the status of pregnant inmates and the problems they have to face in United States prisons.
Prison Births:
In almost all the cultures men and women are treated differently. According to a study, “in no country do women have political status, access, or influence equal to men. The sweep of women's political subordination encompasses the great variety of cultures, economic arrangements, and regimes in which they live" (Chowdhury and Nelson, 1994; p. 3). Women of present society are fighting for their rights and reproductive freedom; but what does reproductive freedom mean for incarcerated women? It has been observed that pregnant female inmates are facing much more trouble in exercising their reproductive rights. They are neither given proper care for healthy pregnancy and to give birth nor they are allowed to have abortion.
The most important obstacle, pregnant inmates have to face, is coercion to have an abortion. They.......
