Attorneys on Monday urged an Alabama court to throw out a criminal charge agains...
- Attorneys on Monday urged an Alabama court to throw out a criminal charge against a woman whose fetus died after she was shot during a dispute, calling the state’s legal rationale “flawed and twisted” and the case unsupported by the law.
The woman, Marshae Jones, 28, was arrested on Wednesday after a grand jury indicted her for manslaughter, concluding that she had intentionally caused the termination of her pregnancy in its fifth month by provoking an argument. The case is a test of a law in Alabama in which voters last November passed a constitutional amendment that gave fetuses the full legal rights and protections of people. The same principle prompted the state’s Republican-controlled state this year to enact a law banning abortion in all cases, including for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
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