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The teenager ("mother") isn't being prosecuted for getting the abortion. She's being charged for concealing or abandoning a dead human body, concealing the deat
by AlanYx 4y ago
The teenager ("mother") isn't being prosecuted for getting the abortion. She's being charged for concealing or abandoning a dead human body, concealing the death of another person, and false reporting. It's the teenager's own mother who's being charged with the abortion-related offences (performing or attempting an abortion on a pregnancy at more than 20 weeks, and performing an abortion as a non-licensed doctor).
- Dylan16807 4y ago> She's being charged for concealing or abandoning a dead human body, concealing the death of another person, and false reporting. Those crimes don't make sense if they're following an abortion. That looks to me like a flimsy cover for prosecuting getting an abortion.
- AlanYx 4y agoI see that perspective, but the rules around reporting and disposing of bodies have purposes independent of the abortion debate, e.g., to protect the rights of live-born disabled babies from intentional euthanasia. Here, the police laid the first set of three charges before there was any allegation of anything other than miscarriage/stillbirth, so it's hard to argue that the police were trying to punish the teenager for abortion in this particular case.