Purvi Patel Released from Prison Today

[niyad]

Purvi Patel Released from Prison Today

Purvi Patel, the woman whose 20 year feticide conviction for self-inducing an abortion was recently overturned by the Indiana Court of Appeals, was released from jail this morning. Yesterday a judge called for her immediate release after ruling that she has already served the full term of her 18 month re-sentencing for neglect of a dependent, a conviction that the appeals court reduced from a Class A to a Class D felony.

In July 2013, Patel sought help at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Mishawaka, Indiana for heavy vaginal bleeding. At first, Patel did not tell medical staff that she had been pregnant, but she later informed doctors that she had had a miscarriage at home. There is no dispute that Patel ordered drugs online to induce an abortion, but it was disputed whether Patel actually delivered a live baby. Also disputed was whether Patel knew the gestational age of the fetus. Evidence at trial showed that Patel believed she was only around 12 weeks pregnant. In 2015, a jury convicted her of feticide and neglect of a dependent.

But the Court of Appeals disagreed, ruling that the intention of the feticide law was to prosecute third party actors who attack pregnant women, not women who self-induce abortion, and thus did not apply to Patel’s case. This ruling provided a legal precedent against the use of feticide laws to punish women who have abortions, women who are suspected of having abortions, and women who miscarry. The state declined to appeal the case to the Indiana Supreme Court.

Patel is the first woman in the country to have been convicted of feticide for self-inducing an abortion. Thirty-eight states have feticide laws, and reproductive rights advocates say turning them against pregnant women sets a dangerous precedent in the wake of widespread state laws limiting women’s access to abortion.

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2016/09/01/purvi-patel-released-from-prison-today/

[Demsrule86]

1. This is a very important ruling.

Thank God that poor woman was released. A woman should have a choice. I would just like to add in Ohio, they would not have treated her at a public hospital...Kasich the so-called moderate made it illegal for public hospital to accept anyone who had an abortion...doctors face jail time.

[niyad]

2. thank you for that important reminder. every time I heard about kasich-the moderate--I wanted

to scream. woman-hating bastard that he is.

[Demsrule86]

3. He is indeed.

Even women who miscarry face precious time as doctors attempt to make sure it is not an abortion. I almost bled to death in Georgia some years ago when my anti-woman so-called pro- life doctor waited so long for a blood test (even though it was obvious) after miscarrying. Hubs was on his way home from a trip and came to the hospital just in time to scream bloody murder when he found me laying in a pool of blood alone in an ER room. I was unconscious...a young resident saved my life. Under the laws of today, I would have died. As it was , I need massive amounts of blood and was left infertile. Abortion is also about health care...people don't understand that. And Kasich also made most IUD's and some other forms of birth control illegal.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. jesus......

I always wonder, if legislators wrote laws targeting men or any male-inclusive minority group for state sanctioned torture, maiming and murder, would that get more attention?

Seems women's issues only generate masses of interest if we're scantily clad for cheap thrills.

[Demsrule86]

5. Very true

Abortion is not a pleasant topic...most people are not pro-abortion...thus I think it is easier to target. I believe in a woman's right to control her own body and make her own health related decisions . In some states, a young woman can still not get her tubes tied if she wants to...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. Yeah, it's true. The Abortion Issue is the perfect vehicle

For brainwashing simple minded people, or recruiting angry narrow-minded "puritans" to the dark side.

Women's health actually requires a very different model of medicine.
The truth is more nuanced than a sound bite.

But really, when you think about it, a sound bite is like the bell in Operant Conditioning. It acts to link the base nature of the stimulation (i.e. the lies, propaganda, insults dished out on U.S. airwaves!) to the Emotion (Anger!!!!) centers in the lizard brain.

So anger and self absorption, and a host of other unfortunate inner dynamics, become an automatic conditioned response..
(((Why, yes...that does seem to be how it works. O.o )))

Well, then that ends you up with a lot of people hurtling themselves down a dangerous path. You don't need to be a history scholar to know of examples from 20th century history.

[niyad]

8. I do not know if you are old enough to know about the rule of 120: you could only get

your tubes tied if your age, times the number of children you had, exceeded 120.

[niyad]

7. but we know that the male jerks sitting in their state houses and congress, will NEVER

pass those kinds of laws against their own.

and one of the reasons that they are so afraid of women gaining power, legislatively or otherwise, is that they are going to get paid back for all the hateful, murderous, ugly, evil things they have done.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. Or worse, women will do the right thing for the people,

And they will LOSE. To GIRLS.

[niyad]

9. did you sue that woman-hating asshole?

[niyad]

10. . . .

[DLevine]

12. Fuck the war against women. nt

[niyad]

13. exactly!!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

14. K&R