A CAIRNS teenager who allegedly self-aborted at two months with an abortion pill smuggled in from overseas has gained support from the pro-choice lobby.
Tegan Simone Leach, 19, is believed to be the first woman charged in Queensland in nearly 50 years for organising her own miscarriage and is facing up to 14 years in jail.
And the abortion lobby say:
"She is our cause celebre," Ms Marsh said. "It comes as such a shock that someone can be charged with this offence in this day and age".
"We'd like to see abortion removed from the criminal code and be regulated like any other health procedure."
Ignoring the terrible euphemism health procedure, s 255 of the Criminal Code 1899 (Qld) says:
Any woman who, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means whatever, or permits any such thing or means to be administered or used to her, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.
It seems pretty clear-cut to me.
Interestingly the pro-abortion lobby claims the case sets an ugly precedent for the rights of women.
s 313(2) of the Criminal Code says:
Any person who unlawfully assaults a female pregnant with a child and destroys the life of, or does grievous bodily harm to, or transmits a serious disease to, the child before its birth, commits a crime.
The Criminal Code is internally consistent - it values human life, regardless of who chooses to destroy it.
The abortion lobby is not - they say mothers can play god with the lives of their unborn children however I bet they would support the prosecution of anyone who assaulted a a pregnant woman resulting in a miscarriage.
Note: Not all authors of The Fourth Way would support my view on this.
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