re: #197 lawhawk

So far, there aren’t that many actual reports besides the Care Blog out there on this. AP reports: The woman apparently thought she was only 14 weeks pregnant, but the autopsy found that the fetus was 5-6 months gestation.

The woman apparently kept the fetus in a box on a back porch, which may explain how the woman was confronted by police - whoever tipped them off may have found out that way. She admitted to keeping the fetus on the porch to police.

God awful every which way you look at it. The choice this woman thought she had to make is seemingly limited due to her lack of legal options, but there’s no way I can condone the kind of fraud she undertook to obtain the meds online to do this - and the outcome could have been far worse; she could have died as a result of those meds or complications from using drugs to induce the abortion.

There’s still quite a bit we don’t know about this story.

Have to agree. However desperate she may have felt, the law cannot condone fraud. And fraud related to drugs is quite serious. I’m afraid that jail time is needed in this case.