WTF?!

[asterroc]

Someone explain to me why this woman is being brought up on charges.

Teen accused of inducing abortion given pretrial probation
6/2/2008, 9:21 p.m. EDT
The Associated Press

SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A Lawrence teenager who was accused of taking anti-ulcer pills to induce an abortion has been given pretrial probation.

Amber Abreu was 18 when she prematurely delivered a baby girl weighing just 1 1/4 pounds at a Lawrence hospital in January 2007. The baby died, and Abreu was indicted by an Essex County grand jury on a charge of procuring a miscarriage.

Salem Superior Court Judge David Lowy Monday ordered Abreu to have mental health treatment as appropriate. If she complies with the order, the case will be dismissed in April 2009.

Prosecutors alleged that Abreu had taken the drug Misoprostol in an attempt to miscarry the baby.

© 2008 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

Comments

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I don't think I knew that misoprostol was an anti-ulcer drug; I've only heard of it related to either abortion or IUD insertion (cause used the right way it can relax your cervix and make putting an IUD in a lot easier).

It's really troubling that she was brought up on -any- charges, and I wish the "reporter" had mentioned what the charges really were: practicing medicine without a license (assuming she got/used the drug in the "wrong" way)? Inducing abortion during the semi-forbidden third trimester?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

To me the implication is that the charges are "causing a miscarriage" - how that's different from "having an abortion" is what's bothering me.