Reply #11: Oi vey...we might not hear the end of this for awhile. Let's hope this

[MADem]

doesn't head towards Schiavo Land.

Tammy Skinner was a poor, desperate 22-year-old with two young children and another one on the way. She said her boyfriend wouldn't pay for an abortion, so she carried her pregnancy to term. ... The law in question states that it is illegal to administer or cause an illegal abortion on an expectant mother.

But Skinner's defense lawyer, Kevin Martingayle, argued that the law did not make it a crime for a mother to cause her own abortion. Ultimately, that argument convinced Circuit Court Judge W. R. Carter.

If someone else had pulled the trigger, he or she would be criminally accountable. Because it was the pregnant woman herself, no crime was committed...the Commonwealth of Virginia filed a direct indictment against Skinner, putting her case back in the courtroom. ... Keith Fournier, a Catholic deacon in Richmond, Va., wrote that equated Skinner's case with the abortion movement as a whole.

"This case reveals all the evil fangs on the evil face of legal abortion on demand," Fournier said.

Actually, what this case reveals is that if that woman had access to safe termination and didn't have to sweat the cash up front, this never would have happened. Some decent HEALTH CARE in this country would have eliminated this entire sad event.

That said, it's manna from heaven for the anti-abortion crowd. They'll take this case of an unhinged, sad, stressed out young woman, and extrapolate the fuck out of it.