Posted by
Fco on Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:23:11 AM
A Virginia judge has dismissed charges today
against a young woman who shot herself in order to kill her unborn
child in a case that has angered anti-abortion activists.
She said her boyfriend wouldn't pay for an abortion, so she carried her pregnancy to term.
Prosecutors say that on the morning she was
scheduled to give birth, Skinner drove to an auto dealer's parking lot,
took a gun, and shot herself in the belly, killing the fetus in an act
of self-abortion. Skinner was charged with carrying out an illegal
abortion.
Source
This is sick. I refuse to believe it is legal to do this. I'm hopeful she'll be taken back to court and jailed for a long time. Though she's probably setting up a "temporary insanity" defense.
Funny how the article refers to a full term baby as a "fetus".