21st Century Abortion on Demand, a post-Roe preview

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words by bayprairie posted March 2, 2006 - 4:55am

Police: Woman shot self to induce an abortion

SUFFOLK -- A Suffolk woman who lost her unborn baby after suffering a bullet wound to the abdomen was arrested yesterday and charged with shooting herself to "illegally induce an abortion."

Tammy W. Skinner, 22, originally called police Thursday at 4:11 a.m. on her cell phone from the parking lot of an auto dealership on North Main Street. She reported someone had shot her, said Lt. Debbie George, a Suffolk police spokeswoman.

Skinner was rushed by ambulance to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where doctors listed her in good condition but her fetus was pronounced dead. Doctors had planned to induce labor for Skinner, who police said was seven to nine month's pregnant, that day.

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Skinner turned herself in to police yesterday afternoon. She is charged with illegally inducing an abortion, a Class 4 felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. Authorities studied several possible charges against Skinner but decided not to charge her with murder because the fetus had not been born, George said.

Skinner also is charged with using a firearm in commission of a felony, along with a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report.

21st century anti-choice Americans overlook the fact that Roe vs. Wade was a Supreme court ruling that found a woman has the right to a safe abortion. The Supreme court found that, in its wisdom, because of a predominance of unsafe and often deadly abortions occuring at the time.

It's been over 30 years and most Americans don't know what it was like and others have forgotten.

Get ready to remember.


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horrible!
Comment by artemisia posted March 2, 2006 - 12:14pm

to need to shoot oneself to terminate a pregnancy...and then to face prison for doing so! i'm speachless...


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Post Roe Indeed
Comment by caliberal posted March 2, 2006 - 4:47pm

It just never ends. As if handcuffing a prison inmate to the bed while she is in labor and during birth isn't enough only two states, California and Illinois ban the practice of shackling women inmates during labor and childbirth.

They shackle them supposedly so they won't escape. For chrissakes, where do they think she's going to go and how far do they think she's going to get?

All of this crap makes me so fucking mad I feel like slapping these heathens around but don't tell my Buddhist instructor because she's still under the impression I'm a friggin' pacifist as if that's possible during this time of war against women.

Women so desperate they shoot themselves in the stomach and pregnant women inmates are shackled, well just fucking hooray for the Red, White and Blue, it's just too bad it doesn't fly for women.

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Here here! It's horrible to
Comment by HereticChick posted March 3, 2006 - 1:13am

Here here! It's horrible to think a woman to be THAT desperate that she would shoot herself in the belly to abort a fetus. What other lengths will women go to? I always have that image in my mind, the one of the woman who died of the illegal abortion, laying on the floor, blood everywhere. What lengths will women go to? It's so sad.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman."
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