This sounds, at face value, like something from one of those bum **** states in the US but it just happened in the UK, it's this case:
Sounds horrific right? Woman seeks out abortion pills during lockdown then gets charged... tweet is from the charity that supplied them, there has been a bit of outcry about this on social media today.
But, some details seem to be missing - she was originally charged with child destruction* then seems to have taken a guilty plea re: the abortion offense, end result is that she's received a 28 month sentence instead of a 36 month one if she'd gone to trial.
Perhaps more importantly it seems this was a 32 - 34 week pregnancy, people get emotive over abortion and I'm generally pro-choice but let's be realistic that's basically killing a baby IMO. The earliest premature baby to survive with current medical technology was at 21 weeks, at the time period we're talking about in this case you're looking at a greater than 95% chance of survival.
Anyway GD, what do you think about this case and/or abortion in general? Does being pro-choice for you mean that you're happy with no limits at all or do you think there should be a line drawn somewhere? I kinda get the impression that most people do in fact want some limit in place but a few who are pro-choice are hardcore until right before delivery.
*It's not clear from the reporting but does this charge indicate that the pills simply induced an early delivery and then the baby was killed/abandoned or did it die and was essentially a miscarriage... it seems kinda moot to me either way but I think for some people they have some hangup where if you kill the foetus/baby when it's still inside the mother it's OK but if an identical foetus/baby passes through the womb then that's a magical gateway and killing it on the outside is them murdering a baby.
Sounds horrific right? Woman seeks out abortion pills during lockdown then gets charged... tweet is from the charity that supplied them, there has been a bit of outcry about this on social media today.
But, some details seem to be missing - she was originally charged with child destruction* then seems to have taken a guilty plea re: the abortion offense, end result is that she's received a 28 month sentence instead of a 36 month one if she'd gone to trial.
Perhaps more importantly it seems this was a 32 - 34 week pregnancy, people get emotive over abortion and I'm generally pro-choice but let's be realistic that's basically killing a baby IMO. The earliest premature baby to survive with current medical technology was at 21 weeks, at the time period we're talking about in this case you're looking at a greater than 95% chance of survival.
Anyway GD, what do you think about this case and/or abortion in general? Does being pro-choice for you mean that you're happy with no limits at all or do you think there should be a line drawn somewhere? I kinda get the impression that most people do in fact want some limit in place but a few who are pro-choice are hardcore until right before delivery.
*It's not clear from the reporting but does this charge indicate that the pills simply induced an early delivery and then the baby was killed/abandoned or did it die and was essentially a miscarriage... it seems kinda moot to me either way but I think for some people they have some hangup where if you kill the foetus/baby when it's still inside the mother it's OK but if an identical foetus/baby passes through the womb then that's a magical gateway and killing it on the outside is them murdering a baby.
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