The woman had a stillbirth in 2021 in South Carolina, which explicitly criminalizes self-managed abortion. She was arrested this week.
A woman in Greenville, South Carolina, was arrested and charged this week on suspicion of taking abortion pills to terminate a pregnancy. According to, which first reported on the case, in October 2021, the then-33-year-old woman sought medical help at a hospital after experiencing labor pains. She told staff that she had taken abortion pills to end her pregnancy. The patient had a stillbirth, and a coroner determined the fetus was around 25 weeks and four days.
While abortion remains legal in South Carolina until 20 weeks gestation, it is one of only three states in the nation that explicitly criminalizes self-managed abortion . The law had been in effect even before the Supreme Court overturnedlast summer.
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