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Utah teen not guilty for seeking to cause a miscarriage
October 14, 2009
A judge in Utah has concluded a bizarre legal case by finding that a 17-year-old girl did not violate state law by hiring a man to beat her, hoping that it would prompt a miscarriage. The judge concluded that while the incident was "shocking and crude," the girl was not subject to prosecution because an effort to end a pregnancy was covered by the state's law allowing abortion.
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