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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY :
POLITICS :
WAR ON WOMEN :
FETICIDE :
UNITED STATES: STATES: INDIANA:
It Isn't Justice for Purvi Patel
to Serve 20 Years in Prison for an Abortion
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It Isn't Justice for Purvi Patel
to Serve 20 Years in Prison for an Abortion
Jessica Valenti
Thursday 2 April 2015 07.47 EDT
The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/02/it-isnt-justice-
for-purvi-patel-to-serve-20-years-in-prison-for-an-abortion
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/obedq2s
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Abortion is illegal in the United States. So is having a stillbirth not
officially, perhaps, but thanks to a case in Indiana, were halfway there.
On Monday, Purvi Patel, a 33 year old woman who says that she had a
miscarriage, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for neglect of a
dependent and feticide. She is the first woman in the United States to
ever be sentenced for such a crime.
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Despite the fact that no traces of any abortifacent were found in Patels
blood work taken at the hospital, the prosecution argued that she had
taken the drugs mentioned in her text messages and caused her miscarriage
at 23-24 weeks of pregnancy. And, in legal maneuvering that defies
imagination, Patel was charged not just with fetal homicide, but with
neglecting a child. As the Guardian reported last year, these charges are
completely contradictory: neglecting a child means that you neglected a
live child, and feticide means that the baby was born dead.
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But logic has never been at the center of the draconian laws and arrest
policies that target pregnant women: control is. As Lynn Paltrow, the
executive director of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, told me
last year about laws aimed at drug-using pregnant women, this kind of
prosecution is about making pregnant women from the time an egg is
fertilized subject to state surveillance, control and extreme punishment.
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And, as with other laws that hurt pregnant women, Indianas feticide law
was not intended (explicitly, anyway) to be a policy that affected women:
it was supposedly designed to target illegal abortion providers. But
despite the anti-choice insistence that women are victims of abortion
providers, the history of how similar laws are used show just how much its
women and women of color in particular who are directly impacted by
fetal protection policies.
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After a feticide law was passed in Texas in 2003, for example, a local
district attorney used the opportunity to send a letter to all doctors in
her county that they were now legally required to report any pregnant
women using drugs. Doctors complied, and and more than 50 women were
reported and charged with crimes.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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