TENNESSEE: PERVERSA MADRE INTENTÓ ASESINAR A SU HIJO FETO CON GANCHO PARA LA ROPA
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LoginA Tennessee woman has been charged with attempted murder after she reportedly tried to abort a 24-week-old fetus with a coat hanger, a case that has raised passions about abortion and women’s autonomy.
The woman, Anna Yocca, 31, got into a bathtub filled with warm water in September and “took a coat hanger and attempted to self-abort her pregnancy,” according to a report by the police in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Ms. Yocca became frightened when she started bleeding, the report said, and her boyfriend drove her to an emergency room. She was transferred to a Nashville hospital, where doctors delivered a baby boy despite her statements that she wanted to end the pregnancy.
Ms. Yocca’s indictment, filed on Dec. 8, states that she “did unlawfully and intentionally with premeditation attempt to kill Leo Kluge,” in violation of Tennessee law. She was arrested Friday and was in the Rutherford County jail, with bond set at $200,000.
The baby weighed 1.5 pounds and sustained damage to the lungs, eyes and heart that, the police report said, would have serious lifelong effects. While the report blamed Ms. Yocca’s probing with the hanger, it offered no medical evidence. Similar health problems are often associated with extreme prematurity.
Twenty-four weeks’ development is about the limit for fetal viability outside the womb and is close to the limit for surgical abortions. Only a few abortion clinics in the country will even consider performing an abortion at that late stage.
Tennessee law permits abortions up to the point of fetal viability, and later if the woman’s life or health is at risk. But, as in many states, legislators have imposed regulations that have forced some clinics to shut down.
Nothing has been publicly reported about Ms. Yocca’s motivation or if she had sought an abortion earlier in her pregnancy.
In an interview broadcast on Friday by a local television station, WTVF, a spokesman for the police described the case in terms that women’s rights advocates condemned as biased.
“She wanted to kill the child,” said the spokesman, Sgt. Kyle Evans. In the hospital, he said, Ms. Yocca “made very incriminating statements, and very concerning statements, about wanting to end the child’s life.”
“The whole time she was concerned for her health, her safety and never gave any attention to the safety of the unborn child,” Sergeant Evans said.
Cherisse A. Scott, the founder and chief executive of SisterReach, a reproductive rights group in Memphis, called the officer’s statements offensive and unprofessional and said the arrest was an outrage.
Ms. Scott, in a telephone interview, faulted Tennessee lawmakers for creating a hostile climate for abortion. Ms. Yocca is to be arraigned in court on Monday, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
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