South Carolina woman arrested for terminating pregnacy with abortion pills

[Landslide Lyndon]

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article272639146.html#storylink=cpy

A Greenville woman was arrested earlier this week and charged with performing or soliciting an abortion.

In October 2021, the then-33-year-old woman sought medical help at St. Francis Hospital after having labor pains, according to a Greenville Police Department incident report. A warrant for her arrest was signed in 2022, Greenville Police Sgt. Johnathan Brown said.

The incident report says the woman told medical personnel she had taken abortion pills to end a pregnancy. State law prohibits self-medication to abort a pregnancy. The fetus was stillborn and was determined to be 25 weeks and four days, according to the incident report.

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25-26 weeks is pretty late for this kind of thing honestly.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

That’s horrible.

[Devils30]

These laws were permitted even during the Roe era, I don't like the idea of prosecuting this but the Dobbs decision did nothing here.

[Skill and Chance]

These laws were permitted even during the Roe era, I don't like the idea of prosecuting this but the Dobbs decision did nothing here.

Yes, from 2021 and also occurred beyond the Roe/Casey viability threshold.  Still don't like the idea of the woman being prosecuted.  Go after the pill provider.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

People need to be more educated on these types of things. If you want to abort a pregnancy in a red state, getting hospitals or doctors involved is probably a bad idea.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

25-26 weeks is pretty late for this kind of thing honestly.

Yeah, my first thought (or third, after generalized moral opposition to abortion and generalized moral opposition to arresting a woman for having one) was concern for her health after doing a chemical abortion that late.

[NewYorkExpress]

Not sure if this will be the case, but it smells like South Carolina is looking for a test case to get the Supreme Court to declare fetal personhood.

[Devils30]

Not sure if this will be the case, but it smells like South Carolina is looking for a test case to get the Supreme Court to declare fetal personhood.

Unlikely that would get more than 2 or at most 3 votes. Textualists will see this as egregious like Roe. It also ensures that the Dems will pack the court with the next trifecta (something that decision would probably accelerate to within 2-4 years).

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

People need to be more educated on these types of things. If you want to abort a pregnancy in a red state, getting hospitals or doctors involved is probably a bad idea.

Sure but the issue comes when that leads you to being unwilling or unable to seek emergency medical care in the rare event that things go wrong. It's a similar situation to people who have overdosed or been using drugs but hesitate to go to a Dr for fear of law enforcement...

Sad situation all around, and ofc the chance for complications with these types of abortions goes up significantly at the stage she was in.