demais mas pena capital ?
On Saturday night, Kenlissa Jones begged her neighbor to drive her to the
hospital. Jones, a 23-year-old mother of a young son, had taken Cytotec, an
abortion pill she procured online. But Cytotec is only safe in the first
trimester of pregnancy, and Jones was over five months pregnant. She delivered
the fetus in the car, and it died after half an hour in the hospital. Jones was
promptly
charged with malice murder. The crime is punishable by death or life
imprisonment.
Jones is not the first woman to be prosecuted
for attempting to abort her own fetus. I recently wrote
about Jennie Linn McCormack, an Idaho woman who, like Jones, took abortion
pills in her second trimester, and was later arrested for it. (McCormack wound
up suing Idaho and knocking down its anti-abortion laws in court.) The details
of these cases are tragic and grisly, causing both pro-choice and anti-abortion
groups to shy away from them. On the pro-choice side, no one wants to celebrate
a doomed 5-month-old fetus delivered in a car. On the anti-abortion side, few
are willing to concede they believe women like Jones and McCormack should be
prosecuted. As I explained in my McCormack article, anti-abortion activists
generally insist that the law should protect women by prosecuting only
abortion providers. But the law didn't protect Jones or McCormack. It sent them
to jail.
By restricting access to abortion clinics and honest counseling, the
draconian abortion laws enacted in states like Georgia push women like Jones to
terrible extremes. Rather than locate a clinic willing to perform her
abortion—which would probably have been illegal under
Georgia law—Jones bought a pill online. Rather than obtain a safe medical
abortion, she took a dangerous gamble, and—after a period of intense
pain—delivered a fetus in a car. Her story doesn't fit neatly into the
pro-choice or pro-life narrative. It's simply an illustration of what happens
when a desperate woman takes her abortion into her own hands.
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