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Purvi Patel Case: Legal Experts Warn on
Reproductive Rights in Indiana
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Purvi Patel Case: Legal Experts Warn on
Reproductive Rights in Indiana
Patels 20-year sentence is the first time the feticide law has been
successfully used to convict a woman and if upheld critics wonder what
else will be altered
Purvi Patel was convicted in February of feticide and neglect of a
dependent, making her the first woman in the US to be charged, convicted
and sentenced for giving herself an abortion.
Jessica Glenza in Los Angeles
Thursday 2 April 2015 14.29 EDT
The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/02/
purvi-patel-case-alter-reproductive-rights-indiana
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Legal and medical experts say womens reproductive rights in Indiana could
be dramatically altered in the wake of a 20-year prison sentence handed
down this week to an Indiana woman for self-aborting her fetus.
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In July 2013, Purvi Patel, now 33, used abortion drugs purchased online
from Hong Kong to attempt to terminate her pregnancy in its 24th week.
Patel delivered what she said was a stillborn fetus at home, placed the
fetus in the dumpster behind the family restaurant and went to the
hospital after losing a significant amount of blood.
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She was convicted in February of feticide and neglect of a dependent,
making her the first woman in the US to be charged, convicted and
sentenced for giving herself an abortion.
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The law was passed by the Indiana legislature in 2009 in response to a
bank shooting in April 2008, in which a man shot a woman who was five
months pregnant in the abdomen, killing the twin girls she was carrying.
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Most feticide laws are designed to be used this way to charge a third
party accused of hurting a pregnant mother or unborn fetus. Patels
conviction, reproductive rights experts said, is the first time such a law
has been successfully used to convict a woman for attempting to abort a
pregnancy.
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You have a woman who is accused of trying to terminate her own pregnancy,
[a] feticide law being used against a woman trying to have an abortion,
which we have not seen before, said Sara Ainsworth, the director of legal
advocacy for the National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW). I would be
shocked if there were no appeal.
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If its appealed and upheld, [the conviction] basically sets a precedent
that anything a pregnant woman does that could be interpreted as an
attempt to terminate her pregnancy could result in criminal liability,
said Katherine Jack, a Greenfield-based attorney who defended another
Indiana woman charged with homicide for losing a pregnancy.
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Patels sentence came in a shocking week for reproductive rights advocates,
who said they were also blown away by the state legislatures passage of
the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The law, which was being amended on
Thursday, has been criticized as anti-gay, but advocates worry it could
also impact womens reproductive rights in the state.
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[RFRA is] not just about wedding cakes this very much has to do with
access to non-judgmental reproductive healthcare, and that was a very big
part of this case, said Sue Ellen Braunlin, the co-president of the
Indiana Religious Coalition for Reproductive Justice.
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