Woman jailed for illegally obtaining abortion tablets to be released from prison after sentence cut

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1. Pretty disgusting tbh. We’ve essentially said its totally fine to lie to your doctor and abort a baby that’s way past the abortion cutoff.

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3. This was the right decision.

   It’s a very sad case involving a woman who was in an impossibly desperate situation.

   Sending her to prison helped nobody. She has three kids including a child with special needs. She’s highly unlikely to reoffend. There was no need to send her to prison in the first place.

4. What stopped her getting an abortion before the 24 weeks were up? I’m assuming lockdown played a role.

   Still, I was born at 32-34 weeks. That is definitely old enough to be considered a baby as opposed to just cells.

5. Wrong message IMO. That was a viable baby she aborted. Needed to have at least some form of punishment to send a message.

6. This is not the correct call.

   There is a point that a fetus becomes an actual viable baby, and she went so far beyond that point as to make it murder of a baby imo.

   It really pissed me off to see all the people on my insta rallying around her.

   I can only assume it’s because of the recent abortion shit in America, and people confusing our country for America.

   This was not ‘abortions are bad and evil, and we’re going to arrest this woman for having one’.. This was ‘This woman murdered a baby that was extremely viable and near birth’..

   Women do not have the right to end a pregnancy whenever they like. We have sensible limits, and this sends the wrong message in regards to those sensible limits.

7. I get that this is a very difficult topic with a lot of nuanced but fucking hell this comment section is shithole already.

8. I remember reading about this when the news first reported on it. At the time I felt a lot of sympathy because it sounded like lockdown had hampered her getting the help she needed.

   However that changed when the details emerged about how late in the pregnancy this happened and the lies she told in order to get the pills. This was a viable pregnancy and the baby would have most likely survived if it was born at the time she aborted it.

   I appreciate she was in a very difficult situation at home and potentially one that was dangerous to her. I am also pro choice and think women should have autonomy over their bodies. But there is a point though that it stops being about one person and starts being about two. At this stage of the pregnancy as the baby probably would have survived it changes things.

   If she had given birth and then smothered the baby I don’t think people would be trying to defend her actions.