Posted on 06/18/2023 7:47:49 AM PDT by marshmallow
Carla Foster took the abortion-inducing drugs sent to her by mail when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant
An English Catholic bishop said he supported the decision of a judge to jail a woman for two years after she aborted her baby almost a month before she was due to give birth.
Carla Foster, 44, took the abortion-inducing drugs sent to her by mail when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant.
Abortion is technically illegal in the U.K., but the 1967 Abortion Act permits the procedure within 24 weeks if two doctors agree certain criteria are fulfilled.
Foster was sentenced June 12 at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, England, to 28 months imprisonment, serving 14 months in custody and the remainder on parole after her release, triggering demands by abortion activists for the law to be changed to allow abortion on demand and up to birth.
In a June 13 statement, Auxiliary Bishop John Sherrington of Westminster, the lead bishop on life issues of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said the church respected the decision of the court.
"It is the responsibility of the judiciary to decide how the law should be applied, including the consideration of mitigating circumstances and sentencing," he said.
However, Clare Murphy, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the abortion provider that sent the pills to Foster without determining the stage of the pregnancy, said it was wrong for any woman to be jailed for abortion.
She said in a press statement that the law must be changed so that "no more women in these desperate circumstances in the UK are ever threatened with prison again."
Foster, a mother of three, said she was too embarrassed to see a doctor when she conceived in 2019 and did not know how advanced.......
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Murder.
Pregnancy is normal this was child murder.
Why does the UK HATE WOMEN?
Don’t they have legislation in California that will allow people to kill their own kids after they enter kindergarten???
Mother Angelica said decades ago if someone kills a person there is a trial and the killer may get a prison sentence or even the death penalty.
If the same person kills a preborn baby everybody shrugs.
Just a woman’s right to choose.
Both have a soul.
Foster wished to abort her child because she had moved back in with her "long-term but estranged partner," who was not the father of the child. Her daughter Lily was born stillborn, and Foster says she has been since "plagued by nightmares and flashbacks" to seeing the face of her baby.
Which destroys the liberal narrative about how wrong or unfair it is to make the woman go through the trauma of labor and give the baby up for adoption.
That far along, she's going to have a normal time of it.
There are always consequences to wrong decisions.
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