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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY :
POLITICS :
WAR ON WOMEN :
FETICIDE:
Somehow, Indiana Managed to Convict a Woman of Both Feticide and Child Neglect
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Somehow,
Indiana Managed to Convict a Woman of Both Feticide and Child Neglect
By Amanda Marcotte
Salon
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/04/02/
purvi_patel_sentenced_to_30_years_for_child_
negect_and_feticide_there_s.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/kw5dme4
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Indiana's getting a lot of national attention lately because of its new
"religious freedom" law, which critics say will shield businesses that
discriminate against LGBT people. But there's another reason Indiana has
moved to the front of the pack in the race for most retrograde state in
the nation. Purvi Patel, the first woman in the country to be convicted of
"feticide" for attempting to abort a pregnancy, has been sentenced to 30
years in prison, 10 of which were suspended.
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Patel stood accused of ordering black-market abortion drugs to abort a
pregnancy caused by her affair with a married man. Sometime in her second
trimester, Patel gave birth to either a stillborn baby or a baby who only
lived a few moments, and Patel threw the baby's body into a dumpster. She
was subsequently charged both with feticide and child neglectcharges that
contradict each other, as I reported in February. But with the double
charge, the prosecution managed both to maximize the potential sentence
(rendered as six years for feticide and 30 for child neglect, to be served
concurrently) and advance the drive to criminalize abortion in the U.S.
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"In order to support the contradictory charges of feticide and felony
neglect of a dependent," legal analyst Imani Gandy explains at RH Reality
Check, "the state was required to prove that Patel both 'knowingly or
intentionally' terminated her pregnancy 'with an intention other than to
produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus,' and that she neglected a
dependent." That "intent" language became the centerpiece. Relying on
Patel's text messages to a friend as evidence, the prosecution argued that
by intending to terminate, Patel broke the law. This is troubling, because
there's no medical evidence proving that the pillswhich she bought
illegally, and which could have been anythingactually caused the
miscarriage. Abortion is supposedly legal in Indiana, but here is a woman
going to jail because she told a friend that she hoped some pills she
swallowed would cause an abortion. (Incidentally, the evidence that Patel
gave birth to a live baby is paper-thin.)
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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