US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills
US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills
Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to providing an abortion after 20 weeks and tampering with human remains
Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to providing an abortion after 20 weeks and tampering with human remains
Abortion after 20 weeks sounds kinda extreme though. Most countries stop at 15.
0You get downvoted hard, but I'm not sure why. I think we all agree that putting someone into prison for an abortion is controversial at best. However, 20 weeks into pregnancy... that's only 2 weeks before it's considered to have a chance of survival at a premature birth.
At one point does it become murder? What if you kill your child right after a premature birth? I'm sure we all agree that's bad. So it's okay to kill the child if it's inside the womb, but not once it gets out? You have to put a limit somewhere, and you have to enforce that limit or you might as well not set it.
Again, I'm not against abortions, but 20 weeks... man... that's rough.
0So it’s okay to kill the child if it’s inside the womb, but not once it gets out?
You nailed it. It's not a child when it's inside the woman, so it's not murder. Women get to decide what they do with their own body. I don't know why that's so goddamn difficult.
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