{"id":49502,"date":"2015-02-05T17:26:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/feticide-and-child-neglect.html"},"modified":"2015-02-05T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:26:36","slug":"feticide-and-child-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/feticide-and-child-neglect.html","title":{"rendered":"Feticide AND child neglect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, this is a pretty crazy verdict in a pretty awful (but certainly not unheard of) case.  A 33-year-old woman hid her pregnancy from her family, then at 24 weeks into the pregnancy took abortion drugs she bought online to end that pregnancy, has been charged <i>and<\/i> found guilty of <i>both<\/i> feticide <i>and<\/i> child neglect.<\/p>\n<p>One might ask how a woman would be convicted under a feticide law that was designed to punish people who injured the woman and caused a miscarriage. One might even more strenuously wonder how a woman could be convicted of both killing her unborn child <i>and<\/i> killing her born child through neglect.<\/p>\n<p>One might wonder about Indiana, too. <\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/The_Case_Of_Purvi_Patel\">http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/The_Case_Of_Purvi_Patel<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/feb\/04\/purvi-patel-found-guilty-feticide-unborn-childs-death'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/UnpWMgST9CJFKk0R3Zt3EkZ8ADrOijfRuZncVwJRp6ZzdaeiFeAcyQL361EfUkGGaWDl9vdzD8ZE19xD7GTC5tX5H7VKb_5FE6cU_DRaXNzYbKwrsChS-pzRAyJlcDttAi47yW-k3-CuvLiJ1nbdGuNLTTGCBaR__euzkvjImvGkE5VkZ1TOaLx9dUyK1LktZZqPC9XGTv3G-PqrKg=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/feb\/04\/purvi-patel-found-guilty-feticide-unborn-childs-death'>Purvi Patel found guilty of feticide and child neglect over unborn baby&#8217;s death<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIndiana woman convicted of using abortion drugs to terminate her pregnancy, and of child neglect for putting still-born baby in a dumpster after the birth\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/6zTRXkypWTc'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, this is a pretty crazy verdict in a pretty awful (but certainly not unheard of) case. A 33-year-old woman hid her pregnancy from her family, then at 24 weeks into the pregnancy took abortion drugs she bought online to end that pregnancy, has been charged and found guilty of both feticide and child neglect. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/feticide-and-child-neglect.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feticide AND child neglect?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27189,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/because-yknow-so-many-of-them-are-just-baby-killing-sluts-right.html","url_meta":{"origin":49502,"position":0},"title":"Because, y&#39;know, so many of them are just baby-killing sluts, right?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Mar-12 10:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The mind boggles.Of course, given what his bill does, his suspicion of women seeking abortion using rape as an oh-so-convenient excuse sound right in line with his legislative agenda.\"If Winder's mandatory ultrasound bill becomes law, a victim of rape or incest or a woman with a medical emergency who is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29988,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/a-consistency-right-or-wrong-of-approach-on-abortion.html","url_meta":{"origin":49502,"position":1},"title":"A consistency (right or wrong) of approach on abortion","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Aug-12 6:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Ryan is being consistent. 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