In 2014, a woman in Pennsylvania has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for illegally procuring so-called “morning after” pills on the Internet for her 16-year-old daughter, who had an unwanted pregnancy.
In 2011, an Iowa pregnant woman fell down a flight of stairs and confided in the nurse that she hadn't always been sure she'd wanted the baby. She'd considered both adoption and abortion before ultimately deciding to keep the child. Next thing Taylor knew, she was being arrested for attempted feticide. Apparently the nurse and doctor thought that Taylor threw herself down the stairs on purpose.*
National Advocates For Women in 2014 reported that in Alabama the word child includes even the egg from the moment of fertilization. Their research finds more than 130 women have been arrested under the chemical endangerment of “children” law. Prosecutors have actually used the law that was meant to protect women to punish those who have used Marijuana or other illegal drugs while pregnant even though the babies were born healthy.
Just in March of this year the Illinois governor signed a bill making abortions illegal for fetus defects like Down’s syndrome and making the donation of fetal tissue a felony crime. North Dakota previously adopted a bill in 2013 banning fetal abnormality abortions.
A Tennessee woman faces attempted murder charges after trying to terminate her pregnancy in a state with some of the strictest laws against pregnant women. But unlike similar cases in the past, where women faced jail time for taking illegal abortion pills or simply miscarrying, Anna Yocca used a frighteningly archaic method to end her pregnancy: She inserted a bent metal coat hanger into her uterus.The charge will probably be reduced to aggravated assault later this year because the baby survived though very damaged.**
This is just a sampling of punishment for women having abortions.
Most of the above from:
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2014/12/global-conservative-religious-movement.html
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/01/indiana-woman-jailed-for-feticide-its-never-happened-before/
** http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/12/14/3731679/hanger-abortion-tenneessee/
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