Woman Charged With Murder For Taking The Abortion Pill [UPDATED] | ThinkProgress

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A 23-year-old Georgia woman is facing a charge of “malice murder” — a crime that is punishable by the death penalty — after allegedly ending her pregnancy by taking abortion-inducing medication that she purchased online.

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According to WALB-TV, Kenlissa Jones asked a neighbor to drive her to the hospital this past weekend because she was experiencing stomach pain. In the car, Jones delivered a fetus that WALB-TV reports was approximately five and a half months old, which died in the hospital about 30 minutes later. She was arrested after a hospital social worker told officers she had purchased abortion-inducing pills online.

In Georgia, abortions after the first trimester may only be performed in a licensed hospital, in a licensed ambulatory surgical center, or in a licensed abortion clinic. Georgia also has a 20-week abortion ban on the books that criminalizes pregnancy terminations after five months.
However, Georgia’s statute on feticide also explicitly states that a woman should not be charged with murder for attempting to end her own pregnancy.

National Advocates for Prwgnant Women (NAPW), an organization that frequently represents women charged with allegedly harming their pregnancies, says that Jones’ case fits into a larger pattern of authorities abusing fetal homicide laws. ...

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