Reply #25: That isn't the issue, though. The issue here is control of one's own

[MADem]

body, and that's what made the ruling so problematic.

It's against the law for SOMEONE ELSE to perform an abortion after a certain gestational phase, but there's the separate issue of control of one's OWN body. If you start taking that away, then at what point do women have to report to the state breeding farm, since they no longer control their own persons?

In any event, they've dismissed the charges against this seriously unwell woman permanently. Any changes to women's rights to control their own persons will happen at the legislative level if at all: http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/articles/2006/10/20/news/news2.txt

According to published reports, the prosecutor in this case said they have no recourse at this point and it is now up to the legislature, an apparent reference to the state lawmakers perhaps passing a law that includes such crimes in the future.