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riversedge

(70,206 posts) Mon Mar 30, 2015, 01:43 PM Mar 2015

How Indiana Is Making It Possible to Jail Women for Having Abortions

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@NARAL How Indiana Is Making It Possible to Jail Women for Having Abortions http://www.politicalresearch.org/2015/03/29/how-indiana-is-making-it-possible-to-jail-women-for-having-abortions/ #LGTB #BoycottIndiana #p2

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How Indiana Is Making It Possible to Jail Women for Having Abortions (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2015 OP

but there is NO war on women. niyad Mar 2015 #1

NARAL ‏@NARAL 6m6 minutes ago The next wave of #antichoice restrictions are here. Are you ready to riversedge Mar 2015 #2

Apparently she received 41 years in prison el_bryanto Mar 2015 #3

OH, I DO HOPE somebody or cause will take up her case. How horrible for her. riversedge Mar 2015 #4

This case should get more attention, I definitely agree there. el_bryanto Mar 2015 #6

self-delete. sorry I posted in wrong thread riversedge Mar 2015 #5

niyad

(113,293 posts)

1. but there is NO war on women.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 01:51 PM

Mar 2015

riversedge

(70,206 posts)

2. NARAL ‏@NARAL 6m6 minutes ago The next wave of #antichoice restrictions are here. Are you ready to

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 01:54 PM

Mar 2015

I really wish we could have massive protests.

NARAL ?@NARAL 6m6 minutes ago

The next wave of #antichoice restrictions are here. Are you ready to fight back with us? http://on.msnbc.com/1NzekHJ @msnbc @irin
View this content on msnbc's website
The next wave of abortion restrictions

By msnbc @msnbc

From "abortion reversal" to "dismemberment abortion," a new mix of laws to restrict the procedure are rippling through states across the country.

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

3. Apparently she received 41 years in prison

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 02:12 PM

Mar 2015

This story is poorly written; at any rate she received 6 years under the Feticide law, which will be served concurrently with 20 years of felony neglect. The case hinges on whether there was a living child that died after placed in the trash or not. She said that it was stillborn; initial doctor reports seemed to indicate it was still born, but the police brought in an "expert" who testified that it was born alive and subsequently died.

That makes very little sense - if the child was born alive, than the neglect applies. If the child was stillborn because she took pills she got from China (according to the Prosecution) than that was supposedly Feticide. Logically, how can it be both?

At any rate, it's a pretty terrible affront to justice anyway you read it. It sounds like she was railroaded.

Bryant

riversedge

(70,206 posts)

4. OH, I DO HOPE somebody or cause will take up her case. How horrible for her.

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 02:25 PM

Mar 2015

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

6. This case should get more attention, I definitely agree there.

Reply to riversedge (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 03:29 PM

Mar 2015

I find myself wondering if a certain amount of her case was motivated by race - she's from India. That might have inhibited the jury and judges ability to empathize with her.

Bryant