Murder charge dropped against woman who induced abortion
Source: MSN
Murder charge dropped against woman who induced abortion
A Georgia prosecutor dropped a murder charge Wednesday against a 23-year-old woman whose arrest after taking pills to end her pregnancy baffled even abortion opponents.
Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards issued a statement saying he had dismissed a malice murder charge against 23-year-old Kenlissia Jones, who spent about three days in jail before she was released. But Edwards said Jones still faces a misdemeanor charge of possession of a dangerous drug.
Abortion-rights advocates and opponents of abortion alike had said they were stunned by the murder charge. Georgia has prohibited the prosecution of women for feticide or for performing illegal abortions in cases involving their own pregnancies. After reviewing the law, Edwards said he reached the same conclusion.
"Georgia law presently does not permit prosecution of Ms. Jones for any alleged acts related to the end of her pregnancy," the prosecutor's statement said. He planned a news conference later Wednesday afternoon.
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/murder-charge-dropped-against-woman-who-induced-abortion/ar-BBkRkbH
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Sounds like a qualifying statement - "well, FOR NOW we don't prosecute... but... "
WHEN ARE WE GONNA REVERSE THIS SHIT, GUYS???????
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but you just made me feel good. Thank you. I needed that.
Sounds like he wants GA to have a law that women can't have chemical abortions, which is patently absurd. These pills only work on very very early pregnancies, these are not fully formed fetuses, are not a person. These pills are perscribed by a physician, how the fuck is GA going to make taking these totally legal pills an offense?
There's nothing I hate more than Repug politicians, they are the bane of this country.
But Edwards said Jones still faces a misdemeanor charge of possession of a dangerous drug.
But he's champing at the bit to get that done.
Fucking hell, talk about second class citizenship...women are having their PERSONHOOD stolen.
You are RIGHT about women's PERSONHOOD being stolen.
Rand has pushed this since his few days in office, and it's getting more conservative support. If his proposed laws fail again, he wants to 'reform' the 14th Amendment to 'redefine what a person is,' to give the unborn all the Constitutional rights of a person. More than that of the mother.
Rand Paul Calls For Personhood Law To End Abortion ‘Once And For All’
by David Badash on November 26, 2012
Paul claims “Congress has the power to legislatively end Roe v. Wade,” which is stunning, since no law can overrule a Supreme Court verdict; only a constitutional amendment can — but that’s not what Paul is advocating.
U.S. Senator Rand Paul, a Tea Party favorite, is advocating for Congress to make a new law, a “personhood” law, called the LIfe at Conception Act,” establishing that human life begins at conception, and extending the 14th Amendment to all fetuses.
Paul in the audio message calls law “legal mumbo jumbo,” yet tells supporters, “we in Congress have the right to legally define when life begins,” regardless of what the truth is:
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/rand-paul-calls-for-personhood-law-to-end-abortion-once-and-for-all/politics/2012/11/26/54644
Media Should Remember: Rand Paul Has A Problem With Women's Health, Not Just Female Journalists
April 9, 2015 by MEAGAN HATCHER-MAYS
Despite... the "fuzzy" answers he gave the AP and CNN :
As a senator, Paul is firmly anti-choice, though he's right that he does tend to keep things fuzzy when asked if he believes that rape victims should be forced to carry their pregnancies to term. Paul has a perfect voting record with National Right to Life, the organization behind the the law that just effectively criminalized all abortions performed in Kansas during the second trimester. (That law, by the way, has no exceptions for rape or incest.)
And then there's his sponsorship of federal personhood legislation that would extend full legal rights to fertilized eggs, a move that bans most, if not all, abortion and could make certain forms of birth control illegal.
Because Paul's personhood proposal holds that the full weight of the 14th amendment kicks in "at the moment of fertilization," methods of birth control that may prevent implantation -- like the copper IUD when used as emergency contraception -- could become, as the New Yorker so bluntly put it last year, "weapons of murder."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/04/09/media-should-remember-rand-paul-has-a-problem-w/203230
The bill is called the Life at Conception Act (2013; 113th Congress H.R. 1091)
Will he get his wish? I don't know, but each of these ravings, plants a seed in the minds of people. Just like the Tea Party guy who want women who've had legal abortions for any reason, PUT TO DEATH FOR MURDER.
Imagine what they could do with the data base on health records and imagine what they could do. Talk about privacy rights? It all depends on who has the power and inclination to use or abuse:
Civil Liberties ‘Hero’ Rand Paul Proposes Fetal Personhood. Again.
by Jessica Pieklo - March 20, 2013
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) proved once again that when he claims to stand up for civil liberties what he really means is that he stands up for the civil liberties of white guys.
Fresh off accolades even from the left of his speaking filibuster of CIA head John Brennan in the name of a never-expanding police state, Paul introduced the Life at Conception Act, a bill that would declare that human life begins at conception, grant fertilized eggs the same legal status as born persons and would completely criminalize abortion in the United States. “The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known – that human life begins at the moment of conception, and therefore is entitled to legal protection from that point forward,” Paul said in a statement. “The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all Members of Congress.”
Paul is a long-time supporter of criminalizing abortion at the federal level while endorsing states to do the same because he hates big government and believes that individuals should be free to make even unpopular decisions without government pressure. Oh wait. Not quite.
Paul, who also opposes the Civil Rights Act, believes it is the 14th Amendment, the very vehicle that makes the Civil Rights Act a reality, that gives Congress the power to declare life begins at conception AND that it can do so without violating Roe v. Wade. Because, you know, consistency.
Now would be a good time to remind all those libertarian-minded Paul supporters who insist they can support Paul AND women because all Paul wants to do is return abortion to the states that this proposed legislation would do the exact opposite. So, hooray! States rights!
http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-liberties-hero-rand-paul-proposes-fetal-personhood-again.html
Yes, folks, imagine these guys in charge of the White House. Let the slaughter of sinful women go wholesale and completely legal.
Instead of burying these women, let's bury this bullshit for good:
No difference between parties?
Don't like the Nominee of the Democratic Party, so gonna vote Green which won't get elected or not gonna vote?
Don't care who is in the White House as it's all the same?
Anyone says that is no ally. Their actions kill women. In the states that restricted abortion and BC rights, women are dying NOW.
In case you can't tell, I do not like Rand Paul or Libertarians.
fresh, your access to information is amazing, as always. 
What I don't get is why the legalized slaughter of women is pretty much a blip, news-wise. The innerwebz should be on fire with these life-threatening, dehumanizing attacks on women.
Did you read the article by Katha Pollit on why GLBT rights are advancing, while women's right to our own lives, to own our bodies is regressing? I can't remember enough to give you a summary, I have to read it again. It was Verrrrry interesting, I do remember that.
Part of the U.S. "War on People of Color".
It's the new Jim Crow.
