Posted on 03/07/2023 5:42:52 AM PST by buckalfa
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – A woman is facing charges in Greenville, accused of breaking a controversial law. The police report said her crime was taking an abortion pill.
The alleged crime happened in October 2021.
Greenville Police said after taking a pill to end her pregnancy, the woman went to the hospital and gave birth to a stillborn baby girl.
According to the police report, the woman is now facing charges for abortion/performing or soliciting abortion.
They said she gave birth to a stillborn baby at 25 weeks, 4 days gestation.
“I don’t think this has ever happened before to my knowledge,” said Greenville attorney John Reckenbeil,.
When contractions began, the report said she went to St. Francis, and when the baby was stillborn, the hospital called the Greenville County Coroner’s Office.
“The hospital did nothing wrong. The hospital was in a situation where they have an affirmative duty to report,” said Reckenbeil.
The investigation continued until September 2022 and the woman in question was arrested just days ago. The police department said they just located her and she had two warrants on her, including failure to appear.
South Carolina is one of only three states to criminalize self-managed abortions.
Reckenbeil said the timing of this case is important.
“When the incident took place back in 2021, that was before the Federal Supreme Court did away with Roe v. Wade,” he said.
The attorney said that over the past few years, there has been such a transition of federal versus state law.
“It’s flipped, where the federal law used to have protection of the right to privacy for abortions. Now, the Supreme Court of South Carolina is the one that instituted the right to privacy as of January 25, 2023,” said Reckenbeil.
In February 2021, the fetal heartbeat bill was passed in South Carolina.
“No doctor in this state is going to jeopardize two years of imprisonment to perform any sort of abortions,” said the attorney. “So, if an individual in October 2021 is thinking about this, they don’t have any other option, because of the fact that the fetal heartbeat bill, which has now been deemed unconstitutional.”
Right now, Reckenbeil said there are limitations to abortions in the state.
“In a second trimester, up to 24 weeks, you have to have the consent and it has to be done by a physician. With consultation, basically like the life of the mother is at risk,” he said.
According to Reckenbeil, the state’s case will hinge on two things: whether or not the pregnancy was viable and whether or not the Constitution protects this woman’s right to make the choice to end her pregnancy.
The police department said they will not release specifics of when the pill was taken before the trial.
Even if the state is trying to pass a new law now, Reckenbeil said because of ex post facto, it will not apply to the woman’s actions back in 2021.
The police department said the woman posted bail and was out the next day.
7NEWS did reach out to the South Carolina Attorney General’s office to see if this has been prosecuted before, we have not heard back.
Thoughts?
She’s a murderer and should seek reconciliation with God and all that goes along with it.
If there are going to be arrests due to this pill, it’s better to go after those who sell or the customer at point of purchase. I dont think it wise or prudent to arrest a woman after giving birth to a stillborn. That act is traumatic enough on it’s own. Locking this woman up,as she leaves the recovery room is the wrong way to enforce the law.
I am not an expert, but I think the use of abortion pills are terminated around 6 weeks after gestation.
I mean, this woman knowingly made a decision to kill a conscious and sentient baby that was inside her.
That decision is not going to go down well with a jury of Southern Baptists in Greenville County.
Think of it this way..
After killing a small child with a knife she trips and stabbed herself.
Police will take her into custody after a trip the to hospital.
When I saw the headline all I could say was “IT’S WOOOORKIIING!”
Without knowing the details it appears it MAY be a set up such as Rosy Parks on the bus, or Norma McCovey (Jane Row in Row v Wade). This may be designed to get the law into a court where the fix is in to get it over turned.
How did anyone know she took the pill? Why did she wait for 25 weeks to take the pill? Why did she not travel to a state where it is legal to take the pill?
It appears to be a set up and the only real question is the DA in on so he/she can lose the case.
A little known fact is that before abortions became legal no woman was ever charged for a crime. If anyone was charged it was the provider and there were very few of them. Why, abortion may have been illegal but was mostly left alone (as is gambling and prostitution is).
Get used to seeing her face, it will be in every rat ad in 24.
Good analysis.
Sounds like a set up, and I’m guessing she’s white, after my years of NICU experience and seeing similar set ups. They’re martyring her for politics.
The good thing about getting Roe out of the states is that it opened it up for the people in each state to make decisions like this. This happened in South Carolina. I live in Washington State.
By putting it back in the hands of the people they will now have to decide how to handle the abortion questions and get the state to determine through majority what they are going to do. If someone in the state disagrees with the determination, then get a majority to think like you do and vote it in. Otherwise, it was voted in by your peers. Live the law accordingly and get it changed if that’s your need. But to determine abortion to be illegal against the law is wrong also. So get the law changed if you can. And if they don’t, start packing if it means that much to you as more people in the state think opposite of you and your group. So you either compromise or leave. Those are your two options.
wy69
I agree.
Greenville, SC is flanked by Clemson University to the southwest and Furman University to the north.
Downtown Greenville has become a destination and residence for recent graduates.
Furman University has gone 100% Woke.
Yeah, but I bet she won’t do it again. Might be she won’t ever do IT again either.
Here’s what I don’t understand. Why take a pill to kill the baby? Why would she endanger her health taking this pill at 25 weeks? If she did not want the baby, there are long waiting lists of well-vetted married couples hoping and praying for a baby to adopt.
You cannot kill a child. Yours or anyone else’s.
Sure you can ... lots of people do. Many of them go to prison for it, as they should. When the murderer is the child's mother, and the child is less than 9 months old, killing the child suddenly becomes the satanic left's most precious act of barbarism.
25 weeks good glory.
She had to go through labor and deliver and all.
Why not just let the baby remain alive? They could have taken the living baby to socials workers as easily as they could put the dead baby in a chicken bucket.
Murder most foul.
She was 6 months pregnant. That is my perspective.
“If she did not want the baby, there are long waiting lists of well-vetted married couples hoping and praying for a baby to adopt.”
Humans aren’t entirely rational creatures. In fact, we may not even be mostly rational. We have conflicting motivations that war with each other and make us do irrational things. So part of her may have desperately not wanted a baby, while she knew another part of her, if it saw that baby’s face, wouldn’t have been able to give it up. Those are the kinds of conflicting emotions that can make you do something crazy.
Please watch Unplanned. You will not believe what is really practiced.
I worked at a crisis pregnancy center years ago. Those women are different from the ones today. Back then, these women were usually pressured by family, including their own mothers at a very emotionally unstable time. Hormone hurricanes of pregnancy create extreme irrational and vulnerable women… even among the most rational and stable.
Today, women actually talk about hating children, npsaying things that no swathe of women have said in my lifetime. I hear them constantly at work.
This is astorge. Used once in The Bible. If these women are breaking the law and not held accountable, what is the purpose of the law.
Man up and do the right thing.
Big pharma is untouchable as even trump gave them billions in a plandemic.
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