America’s criminalization of women continues: Woman charged with murder after self-induced abortion

[Novara]

3. Good news - UPDATE

Murder charges dropped for Georgia woman who took abortion pill

Georgia prosecutors are dropping a murder charge against a woman who was jailed in the death of her 5 1/2-month-old fetus after she took an abortion-inducing pill, officials said on Wednesday.

Kenlissa Jones, 23, of Albany, Georgia, was released from jail on a reduced charge of possession of a dangerous drug. She was held on Tuesday without bond on charges of murder and possession of a dangerous drug, according to jail records.

But Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards reversed himself and dropped the homicide charge.

"A thorough legal research by myself and staff led to the conclusion that Georgia law presently does not permit prosecution of Ms. Jones for any alleged acts relating to the end of her pregnancy," he said in a statement on Wednesday.

Georgia state law prohibits abortions after the first trimester unless performed by a doctor, but the law gives a pregnant woman immunity from the law for her own actions against an unborn child, the district attorney's office said.

Local media reports said Jones did not tell anyone she was pregnant. She ordered the drug Cytotec on the Internet from Canada to induce an abortion.

She took the drug and delivered her fetus on Saturday night while in a neighbor’s car on her way to a hospital in Albany, Georgia near the Florida border.