Why are they trying to punish innocent people for having the audacity to be a victim of a crime?

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    13 days ago

    “The woman involved would not have been poisoned and her baby would not have had his or her life ended.”

    The circumstances are tragic but her ending up with a rapist’s baby hardly seems good.

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      Stuart Worby, 40, from Dereham, Norfolk, was jailed for 12 years for sexually assaulting the pregnant woman and giving her abortion medication.

      If I’m reading the article right, she was already pregnant and It wasn’t his baby.

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        Oh damn I think you’re right. My bad, thanks.

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      13 days ago

      Wait, wouldn’t the fetus’ life have ended if she took the pills she thought she was taking?

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        Worby obtained the medication from a friend, Neuza Cepeda, who posed as a woman in need of an abortion.

        She didn’t think she was taking anything:

        The British Pregnancy Advisory Service said women needed to access safe abortions and should not be punished “for the actions of abusive men”.

        Mifepristone is one of two medicines used in the chemical abortion process

        Worby gave the woman mifepristone crushed up in a glass of orange juice. The next day he administered misoprostol during a sexual assault.

        The pills are commonly used together to terminate a pregnancy.

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            Happens to the best of us.