I've been seeing a lot of prominent feminist websites highlighting the case of a young Indian woman named Purvi Patel whom they are *claiming* has been "sent to prison for having a miscarriage".
http://scroll.in/article/718081/The-Indiana-foeticide-case-why-Purvi-Patels-Indianness-matters
Let me be clear here: Purvi Patel is not going to jail for having a miscarriage. The jackasses in power are lying to you to gain political traction. She bought illegal abortion pills (from china), and went to the doctor who found an umbilical cord in her vagina. She denied it and claimed it was a miscarriage before recanting and telling them where the child was. The child was found in a dumpster then later died at the hospital. She murdered that child to deny the fact that she had ever been pregnant. She could have legally abandoned that child at any firehouse or hospital or police station, but denying it's existence and preserving her cultural myopathy was more important. She is not going to jail for a miscarriage. She is going to prison for fetal homicide. She lied.
Court Record: https://www.documentcloud.org/…/1280086-patelpcaffidavit.ht…
*EDITED FOR ACCURACY* The baby was not alive when it was taken to the hospital. However, the autopsy concluded that the child was alive when it was born and died from blood loss from the broken, untreated umbilical cord.
Also, the child was approximately 28 weeks old and the it was determined that with proper medical attention, the child could have survived. It was alive when she birthed it. It bled out. It's heart was therefore pumping. They reduced her sentence from 41 years to the 30 she's serving because they cannot determine if the drugs she knowingly took would have caused irreparable harm to the child.
Furthermore, the drug itself is illicit in the United States. She knew this, sought out the drug, discussed with a friend via text message the use of the drug, and paid for the drug online with the same credit card she uses to pay for her Cadillac SRX. So, the "she might not have access to abortion care because she's poor" doesn't hold water because she is from a family that is financial comfortable. This establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt that she knew what the drugs were, what they would do, that they were illegal, and the end result of having taken them. She left the child in a dumpster.
At the hospital, she initially claimed to have not been pregnant all and that she was experiencing unexplained bleeding. However, upon questioning (and finding an umbilical cord upon her exam) she changed her story to her having had a miscarriage. But she took the drugs. Knowingly.
There was also simply no legal, financial, or ethical reason to have done this at all. This was pure and simple to hide that she had become pregnant in the first place.
http://safehaven.tv/states/indiana/
http://scroll.in/article/718081/The-Indiana-foeticide-case-why-Purvi-Patels-Indianness-matters
Let me be clear here: Purvi Patel is not going to jail for having a miscarriage. The jackasses in power are lying to you to gain political traction. She bought illegal abortion pills (from china), and went to the doctor who found an umbilical cord in her vagina. She denied it and claimed it was a miscarriage before recanting and telling them where the child was. The child was found in a dumpster then later died at the hospital. She murdered that child to deny the fact that she had ever been pregnant. She could have legally abandoned that child at any firehouse or hospital or police station, but denying it's existence and preserving her cultural myopathy was more important. She is not going to jail for a miscarriage. She is going to prison for fetal homicide. She lied.
Court Record: https://www.documentcloud.org/…/1280086-patelpcaffidavit.ht…
*EDITED FOR ACCURACY* The baby was not alive when it was taken to the hospital. However, the autopsy concluded that the child was alive when it was born and died from blood loss from the broken, untreated umbilical cord.
Also, the child was approximately 28 weeks old and the it was determined that with proper medical attention, the child could have survived. It was alive when she birthed it. It bled out. It's heart was therefore pumping. They reduced her sentence from 41 years to the 30 she's serving because they cannot determine if the drugs she knowingly took would have caused irreparable harm to the child.
Furthermore, the drug itself is illicit in the United States. She knew this, sought out the drug, discussed with a friend via text message the use of the drug, and paid for the drug online with the same credit card she uses to pay for her Cadillac SRX. So, the "she might not have access to abortion care because she's poor" doesn't hold water because she is from a family that is financial comfortable. This establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt that she knew what the drugs were, what they would do, that they were illegal, and the end result of having taken them. She left the child in a dumpster.
At the hospital, she initially claimed to have not been pregnant all and that she was experiencing unexplained bleeding. However, upon questioning (and finding an umbilical cord upon her exam) she changed her story to her having had a miscarriage. But she took the drugs. Knowingly.
There was also simply no legal, financial, or ethical reason to have done this at all. This was pure and simple to hide that she had become pregnant in the first place.
http://safehaven.tv/states/indiana/
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