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I'm not sure how I feel about this since I do not know enough about pregnancy to know when a fetus is viable and when it is not. I feel awful for her family who did not know she was pregnant until she was arrested.
Another case of self abortion led to a change in Idaho's laws
Premature babies as young as 19 1/2 weeks along have survived before, but it's not the norm.
That is too young for long-term survival. A baby that young might be born alive, but it will die shortly after birth.
The earliest that hospitals will attempt to save a premature infant is 22-24 weeks. Very few survive prior to 23 weeks; survival rates at 24 weeks are around 50%, many with long-term health issues.
The nearest abortion clinic is 3 hours away in Columbus, GA assuming that this woman lived in Albany and did not just end up in the hospital there. I would bet this sort of thing is more common in areas with no access to safe, legal abortions early in the pregnancy.
This is a very sad story. However, I think it sets a bad precedent to try her for murder. We want to be careful here and I think her intent matters. If a person from Virginia has an abortion in Maryland because they are too far along to legally have one in Virginia should they be arrested when they come home? I don’t want us to go back to the days when all abortion was illegal and home abortions were a woman’s only choice if she didn’t want to have a baby.
I find it funny (not in a haha way but in an ironic way) that if a person kills a pregnant woman, it can be considered murdering the unborn baby (maybe not always in the eyes of the law but definitely in the eyes of society), but a mother aborting her own child, either in a clinic or doing so herself like this woman, is not considered murder. So it's only murder when it's not her choice? Awfully convenient and arbitrary.
If you read the whole story, many attorneys say that the charges run contrary to state law. It won't hold up in court. The prosecutor hasn't decided if they will proceed or not.
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