Six in Mexico get 25-30 years in jail for abortion

[cory777]

Source: IANS/EFE

Mexico City, July 22 (IANS/EFE) Six Mexican women have been sentenced 25-30 years in prison on homicide charges for terminating their pregnancies.

The women have already served between three to eight years of their 25 to 30 year sentences handed down by state courts in Guanajuato state, activists said.

Veronica Cruz, director of the Centro Las Libres, which provides assistance to over 160 women facing abortion-related charges, said the organisation would appeal to the federal judiciary.

Of the six cases, one was a spontaneous abortion, two others were undertaken because of rape and the rest were for accidental pregnancies, Cruz said.

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[cutlassmama]

1. This is why there is overpopulation and starvation in Mexico

[CBGLuthier]

7. nonsense.Their shitty government is why they have problems

Abortion on demand will not fix mexico.

[DesertFlower]

2. i don't know what to say, i'm sitting

here with my mouth hanging open.

has any woman in this country ever gone to jail before roe v wade?

[rug]

5. According to this study by a prolife group, no.

"No evidence was found to support the proposition that women were prosecuted for undergoing or soliciting abortions. The charge that spontaneous miscarriages could result in criminal prosecution is similarly insupportable. There are no documented instances of prosecution of such women for murder or for any other species of homicide; nor is there evidence that states that had provisions enabling them to prosecute women for procuring abortions ever applied those laws. The vast majority of the courts were reluctant to implicate women, even in a secondary fashion, through complicity and conspiracy charges. Even in those rare instances where an abortionist persuaded the court to recognize the woman as his accomplice, charges were not filed against her. In short, women were not prosecuted for abortions. Abortionists were. The charges of Planned Parenthood and other "pro-choice" proponents are without factual basis. Given the American legal system's reliance on precedent, it is unlikely that enforcement of future criminal sanctions on abortion would deviate substantially from past enforcement patterns."
Women and Abortion, Prospects of Criminal Charges Monograph, American Center for Bioethics, 422 C St., NE, Washington, DC 20002, Spring 1983

I haven't found the complete monograph yet but I'd like to check their data.

[Better Today]

3. Spontaneous aka miscarriage is murder?!?! Holey Shit. That's pretty hard

to imagine. What's a woman to do to avoid miscarriage? Usually by the time you think you're having a miscarriage, it's too late to do a damn thing about it.

The others are certainly screwed up to be considered murder of any type, in that choice should be legal, but the miscarriage = murder is just totally inconceivable by any standards.

[theHandpuppet]

4. Kicking

:kick:

[saigon68]

6. Good thing they weren't selling drugs

They would have gotten probation

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. This is what the anti-choicers want to happen here

In some states, they will even consider it premeditated capital murder, and sentence women and providers to death (in some cruel irony). We should make no mistake about this: they will send women who have abortions to prison as murderers if given the chance to outlaw the practice. It is wholly consistent with their views and arguments that women having abortions will be sent to prison on murder charges. It should constantly be made clear to the American people that the fundamentalist anti-choicers want abortion to be treated as capital murder for the purposes of legal prosecution.

[hamsterjill]

13. Exactly!

Very well put. That's why society needs to "wake up" and stop being complacement about Roe v Wade. The majority of Americans believe that abortion should be legal, but the fundamentalists have a loud voice. It is important that the rest of us make our voices heard.

[Odin2005]

9. One was thrown in jail for a MISCARRAGE!?!

:grr:

[demigoddess]

10. think of it as a form of birth control. they probably will not

get pregnant while in prison and be too old when they get out. Kind of counter-productive I would say.

[fascisthunter]

11. the US right wing dream

"the gubnent owns your body!".... "but... but... we don't believe in 'big gubnent'"

[CanonRay]

12. This is the American Taliban's agenda

[alp227]

14. You beat me to saying that. Freepers must be popping champagne over this.

My high school US government & politics teacher used to have this poster called "Reasons to Party" containing historical events that took place on days of the year. So social conservatives mark the arrest of women who underwent abortions as a great milestone in their view.