Unintended consequences of anti-abortion law on wanted pregnancies
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-abortion-law-pregnancy-complications_n_612ff3f9e4b05f53eda3008c
This is a woman telling her personal story on how Ohio’s anti-abortion law affected her wanted, but complicated, pregnancies. She cites the specific Ohio law below:
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Ohio state law, section 2919.151, titled “Partial birth feticide,” states that “When the fetus that is the subject of the procedure is not viable, no person shall knowingly perform a partial birth procedure on a pregnant woman when the procedure is not necessary, in reasonable medical judgment, to preserve the life or health of the mother as a result of the mother’s life or health being endangered by a serious risk of the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.”Going against this law would be a second-degree felony.
…The woman had to unnecessarily suffer and then ended up with a pair of dead twins anyway, one of whom was even ironically denied recognition as a “person” under the law.
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@george-k said in Unintended consequences of anti-abortion law on wanted pregnancies:
Shoot and kill a pregnant woman, you're guilty of two murders.
I've wondered about this my whole life -- why a defendant accused of killing a pregnant woman isn't charged with double homicide.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@george-k said in Unintended consequences of anti-abortion law on wanted pregnancies:
Shoot and kill a pregnant woman, you're guilty of two murders.
I've wondered about this my whole life -- why a defendant accused of killing a pregnant woman isn't charged with double homicide.
@catseye3 https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/boyfriend-convicted-of-double-murder-of-pregnant-girlfriend-unborn-son/14778/
A 36-year-old man was convicted today of two counts of murder and other charges for the 2001 contract killings of his girlfriend and her unborn son outside the woman's Hawthorne apartment.
Prosecutors said Derek Paul Smyer arranged for 27-year-old Crystal Taylor to be killed because she refused to have an abortion.
The six-man, six-woman jury found Smyer guilty of second-degree murder for Taylor's killing; first-degree murder of the fetus, named in the complaint as Jeremiah Johnson Taylor; two counts of solicitation of murder; and one count of conspiracy to commit a crime.
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@george-k said in Unintended consequences of anti-abortion law on wanted pregnancies:
Shoot and kill a pregnant woman, you're guilty of two murders.
I've wondered about this my whole life -- why a defendant accused of killing a pregnant woman isn't charged with double homicide.
@catseye3 said in Unintended consequences of anti-abortion law on wanted pregnancies:
@george-k said in Unintended consequences of anti-abortion law on wanted pregnancies:
Shoot and kill a pregnant woman, you're guilty of two murders.
I've wondered about this my whole life -- why a defendant accused of killing a pregnant woman isn't charged with double homicide.
Down here, they are.
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@catseye3 said in Unintended consequences of anti-abortion law on wanted pregnancies:
@george-k said in Unintended consequences of anti-abortion law on wanted pregnancies:
Shoot and kill a pregnant woman, you're guilty of two murders.
I've wondered about this my whole life -- why a defendant accused of killing a pregnant woman isn't charged with double homicide.
Down here, they are.
@jolly said in Unintended consequences of anti-abortion law on wanted pregnancies:
Down here, they are.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/fetal-homicide-state-laws.aspx
Currently, at least 38 states have fetal homicide laws: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. At least 29 states have fetal homicide laws that apply to the earliest stages of pregnancy ("any state of gestation/development," "conception," "fertilization" or "post-fertilization"); these are indicated below with an asterisk (*).
