Posted on 07/06/2022 7:40:28 AM PDT by Ebenezer
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A court in El Salvador condemned to 50 years in prison a woman who gave birth in her house and who was initially tried for abortion and convicted of aggravated homicide.
The Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion rejected the judicial decision and announced that it will appeal the verdict which was reached on June 29.
All forms of abortion are penalized in El Salvador, including therapeutic [ones], and both the women and the doctors who perform it are punished.
The sentences vary from two to eight years, but if the charge changes to aggravated homicide, [offenders] end up being sentenced from 30 to 50 years in prison.
But according to Brandon, the US is an “outlier” in the world because Roe vs. Wade was overturned.
If the baby was born how can it be anything other than child murder?
But it does bring up the issue of punishment.
If abortion is a crime, the taking of a human life, a murder, what should the punishment be?
See, now, that’s not right. But then again, it’s a third world sh!t hole - the country that brought us the ferals that are MS-13. What can you expect?
The abortionist alone should be facing time. Not the woman.
All the news brief states is that the woman gave birth at home, so it’s not clear if a doctor, or even a midwife, was involved. Perhaps (and I say perhaps) the woman did this on her own, which the court ruled was aggravated homicide.
Sensational headline does not match the story.
I agree, only that that is how the headline read. It appears from the story that the woman was initially charged with abortion but the charge was changed to aggravated homicide. I don’t know the circumstances, but they may be that there was a botched abortion where the baby was born alive but subsequently murdered.
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