COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — A 29-year-old woman is suing a Tennessee sheriff after she says she was denied an abortion while in jail, violating her constitutional rights.
The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2jzrizq) Kei'Choura Cathey filed the federal lawsuit in Nashville last month against Maury County Sheriff Bucky Rowland.
Cathey found out she was pregnant in 2015 while in custody on robbery and murder conspiracy charges.
The lawsuit says that she told Rowland she wanted to have an abortion, but he denied her access to one, saying Cathey's life was not in danger and her pregnancy was not the result of a crime.
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4 comments:
Having the child would have slowed down her criminal career.
The sheriff was just preventing a murder from happening in his jail
1:26
maybe and maybe not , it may have enhanced it
1:26 I am really not sure how to take that comment. I highly doubt the child would have slowed down anything but would have had a miserable and neglected life. Taken at face value, that's a pretty stupid comment.
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