Posted on 07/05/2022 1:51:15 PM PDT by Morgana
A brief article from an 1877 West Virginia newspaper headlined “Feminine Follies” described the criminal prosecution of a woman who had ended her pregnancy through a desperate operation with crude supplies. Arrested along with her was a female companion accused of trying to help.
“Last evening, Samuel Motto went before Squire Phillips and swore on his oath that Ida Meredith had unlawfully and feloniously destroyed her unborn child by means of an instrument made of wire and a pencil,” the Wheeling Intelligencer reported.
“Mrs. Samuel Motto was arrested as an accomplice in producing the abortion. Both women were held in the sum of $1,000 each for their appearance before Squire Phillips at 2 o’clock this evening. Not being able to give the required bond, both were jailed.”
Abortion was prosecuted as a crime in West Virginia for doctors, pregnant women and, sometimes, those who tried to assist them under a statute that dates back to the 1800s.
After 1973’s Roe vs. Wade ruling established a federally-guaranteed right to abortion, the West Virginia law remained on the books but was not enforced.
Now, following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe, West Virginia’s criminal statute has sprung back. Experts on opposite sides of the abortion issue agree that the statute as currently written would not only put doctors and nurses at risk for three to 10 years incarceration, but also could apply to pregnant women and their partners.
That’s a conclusion of a coalition of medical providers and advocates who filed suit last week over West Virginia’s revived criminal penalties for abortion. Their court filing outlines several West Virginia cases from decades back when women were prosecuted under the abortion law. Their point is that could happen again if the law isn’t changed.
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Nothing like a little fear mongering to keep the serf & servants down on the old plantation.
1850: If you escape & go up north, them Yankees might kill you
2022: If you get an abortion, them knuckle dragging right wingers could, may, possibly prosecute you.
We know damn good and well this ain’t gonna happen, but, sad to say a huge percentage of our mal-educated youth believe it.
I fail to see the problem, here. Murderers, contract killers, and those who hire contract killers, belong in prison.
Just wait until the Doctors in WV start getting arrested for conspiracy to commit murder for not reporting their patients going out of state for an abortion.
Yeah, leave it to the abortionists to kill babies, but not you looking for one having it done.
NO problem here at all in fact it’s MORE WINNING.
You know that is such an interesting picture. Problem is the “Not yet a human” is written on the wrong part of her body, it should be written across her forehead.
Put me on that jury.
Please.
Hot pants in the middle considers her unborn baby as something less than human. I’d consider her something worse, she’s a sociopathic monster that doesn’t see her late term pregnancy as human being and would murder it without hesitation. Child Protective Services should pay a visit and make sure her other children are safe.
100%
Women are morally culpable for their own actions and thus should be held legally liable for their own actions.
Who’s the backward thinker?
Murder is murder.
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