A horrible case, but I'm inclined to agree that she must have been mixed up. A cool and callow feminist would have had the child comfortably aborted, would have suffered a good deal less herself, and would have been complimented by her friends for her good sense, instead of ending up threatened with jail. If she had aborted it just a day earlier she would have been home free.
It was still a terribly evil thing to do, but I don't see any deliberate or malevolent planning here; more likely a weak upbringing, poor moral education in the public schools, lack of good advice from any of her college friends, an uncaring or possibly unknowing boyfriend, bad influence from the media and entertainment industries, and a horrible decision at the last moment to let her own child die.
No one would argue against that. I think the fault is more in the family and friends around her than "society at large" here. If one has gone through hours of labor, lost significant amounts of blood, it is also not the best condition to be rational. Where were her friends and family?