Murder Charge Dropped Against Woman Who Induced Abortion

At the Associated Press, Russ Bynum reports that a Georgia prosecutor dropped the malice murder charge against Kenlissa Jones, who was arrested after a “hospital social worker told police that Jones had taken four Cytotec pills that she ordered online and delivered her fetus after breaking up with her boyfriend.” Bynum writes, “Abortion-rights advocates and opponents of abortion alike had said they were stunned by the murder charge.”

Read at The Associated Press

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