Murder charge over abortion, in The Netherlands
Monday was the 20th anniversary of our Supreme Court striking down Canada's abortion law, and as I said then, the battle over abortion still continues. There was a great round-up of posts supporting one side of the battle over at Hope and Onions. And it is still clearly a battle, something I understand better today than I have before
And that's because it is the other side of the who will be celebrating this story:
A Dutch woman is being prosecuted for murdering her unborn child in an unprecedented case after she travelled to Spain for an abortion when she was already 27 weeks pregnant.
Today a judge rejected the 24-year-old woman's request for an injunction ordering an end to the Dutch murder probe, her lawyer Gerard Spong said.
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Abortion is legal in the Netherlands up to the 24th week of pregnancy and it is extremely rare for Dutch authorities to file murder charges linked to such a procedure. The fact that the woman is being prosecuted for an abortion carried out overseas makes the case unprecedented.
Rare or unprecedented, their are those who would love to see the precedent set, and expanded.
This is insane. I can only hope the story gets enough coverage that the Dutch are embarrassed into doing the right thing and dismiss the charges.
