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Woman in Teesside accused of carrying out own abortion to appear before judge | UK news (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Bethany Cox is the fourth woman to be prosecuted in the last eight months for allegedly carrying out her own abortion, with only three trials in the 160 years before that, according to campaigners.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe we still have laws against this. It's not an offence against a person when there's no person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

with intent to destroy the life of a child capable of being born alive

These are extremely late self administered abortions. Absolutely tragic for all involved and the current laws may not be appropriate but although most people agree that a collection of cells or tiny foetus is not a person yet… when someone is at a point in the pregnancy where the baby can be born and survive then I don’t think it’s as simple.

Note: I’m assuming that’s what the line meant about being capable of being born alive (as the other recent case I was aware of was a really really late abortion and I think this is a similar case based on the posted link)