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In reply to the discussion: Pennsylvania Mother Who Gave Daughter Abortion Pill Gets Prison - Reuters/HuffPo [View all]Feral Child
(2,086 posts)There is a thriving pharmaceutical shadow industry on the internet. You can buy everything from antibiotics to morphine from legitimate manufacturers. These "pharmacies" operate from Europe, India, the Philippines and, at least for a time, from little South Pacific islands you've never heard of. Often, the trade isn't illegal in the home country and DEA (spit) is powerless to stop it, though they spitefully interdict and interfere as much as they can.
There are also stone-cold criminals that send compounds other than what they promise.
This woman did a criminally stupid thing. She got busted and is going to serve the time. I personally think the sentence is unduly harsh. Remember that this conviction will probably mean she'll never work in her career field again. She'll have to start over.
She should have gotten a probation and community service.