A Win for Women? | SBA-List: Jennie Linn McCormack, who filed suit last week against the prosecuting attorney of Bannock County, challenging the constitutionality of Idaho’s fetal pain abortion ban. The lawsuit also challenges the lack of access to abortion to women in her area. Idaho is one of six states in the US that have enacted fetal pain bans. The law prohibits abortion after 20 weeks when it has been determined that the child can feel pain.
Ms. McCormack, who was unemployed and already had three children, was initially charged with a felony in June when the police discovered the body of a fetus in a box at her Pocatello, Idaho home. An autopsy revealed the body to be approximately five to six months gestation. Ms. McCormack had apparently taken abortion inducing pills (procured online) in order to terminate her pregnancy, which she could not do so at a clinic because the stage of pregnancy was beyond 20 weeks. It seems utterly absurd to think that should Ms. McCormack succeed in her lawsuit that it would in any way benefit women.
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