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To: Vic S
I read that a woman was recently convicted on a self-induced abortion in Ireland with drugs she got on the Internet (she got 2 months, suspended, and 2 years probation -- her shocked roommates, who were pro-life girls, blew the whistle on her) but I hadn't heard of prosecutions in the USA.

I simply don't know.

This may vary from state to state. Serious question, can you link to more information here?

20 posted on 04/06/2016 5:11:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." -- Billie Holiday)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Jennifer Whalen, a mother in Pennsylvania, was prosecuted for getting abortion-inducing drugs for her daughter. Purvi Patel is currently sitting in an Indiana prison for allegedly self-inducing her own abortion. And it’s not just abortion. Prosecutors have charged dozens of women with serious crimes including drug trafficking and murder for using drugs while pregnant. When South Carolina passed a law in 1997 qualifying fetuses as persons and harm to them as child abuse, the Attorney General’s Office announced it would prosecute women who had post-viability abortions for any reason, and that it would charge them with murder and potentially seek the death penalty. If a woman takes drugs and has a miscarriage or her child dies soon after birth, she faces jail time in many parts of the U.S. Do we really believe that a woman who pays someone to end her pregnancy won’t be treated the same way?

When you make something illegal, it comes with penalties—this is how criminal law works. It’s certainly how it works in El Salvador, where women are in jail, some for having miscarriages the state believes were abortions. It’s how it works in Rwanda, where rape survivors sit in prison for ending their pregnancies. It’s how it works in Ecuador, Malaysia, Mexico, Bolivia, the Philippines—the list of where ending a pregnancy can land you behind bars goes on.


23 posted on 04/06/2016 5:16:14 PM PDT by Vic S
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