Noomi
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In Massachusetts, 2007. The charges were Procuring a Miscarriage. She spent 3 nights in the slammer in Framingham.No, it's still a child.
Ask the women who go to prison for killing them.
When was the last time a woman went to prison for having an abortion?
On January 6, 2007 18-year-old Amber Abreu went to the hospital in Lawrence, Massachusetts after trying to terminate a pregnancy by taking a drug, misoprostol, which is an ulcer medication as well as a key component of the abortion pill RU-486. Amber was between 23 and 25 weeks pregnant. The result was a miscarriage. The doctors rushed the 1-1/4 pound expelled fetus to the Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, where it remained alive for four days. The police, meanwhile, went after Amber using an archaic law dating back to the 1840s to charge her with procuring a miscarriage. Cops dragged Abreu into court in shackles and then held her in the states maximum security prison at Framingham for three nights until friends and relatives could come up with $15,000 bail.
23-25 weeks pregnant? That wasn't a miscarriage, that was a stillbirth.
Was the drug legal in the State in which she took it? If so, that is probably why she was charged, but using such an old law to charge her is a bit extreme.