Tear gas is widely used by law enforcement, even though it may cause spontaneous abortion
After the recent ruling by the Supreme Court overturning federal abortion rights, people have taken to the streets in protest. In multiple places, police attacked protesters with chemical weapons in the form of tear gas. In Arizona, law enforcement even fired canisters from the windows of government buildings.
These weapons should not be used on anyone under any circumstances. The 1925 Geneva Protocol was intended to ban military use of chemical weapons in warfare. However, the relevant treaties don’t extend to nations using such weapons on their own people. That means police and other government forces are free to tear-gas unarmed civilians in the name of law enforcement, while soldiers could be prosecuted for war crimes if they did the same to armed combatants.
The most widely used tear gas is CS, from the initials of its discoverers Ben Corson and Roger Stoughton, who created it in 1928. Notoriously, the U.S. Army exposed volunteers from the ranks of soldiers to increasingly larger concentrations and gauged their responses, a test that led the CDC to declare CS “Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health.
In other words, the chemical component CS itself may not be causing miscarriage, but tear gas is so demonstrably harmful to physical and mental health that it hardly matters from a human rights perspective. A weapon that stresses a person’s body or mind so much that they spontaneously abort is not better in any way than a chemical that does the same thing via a more direct biochemical process.
That lack of regulation means that, in some instances, police have been buying increasingly strong chemical weapons to use on crowds. The Chemical Weapons Research Group in Portland, Ore., documented many types of weapons used during the 2020 uprisings over police brutality in the United States, which included military-grade smoke grenades and versions of tear gas containing powdered oleoresin capsicum . These increased-strength weapons have not been documented in protests prior to 2020.
The police reaction to protests following police murders of George Floyd, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor and other Black people also highlights that chemical, abortifacient weapons are used discriminately against Black protesters.
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