A Tennessee woman is charged with attempted first-degree murder for what investigators say was a failed abortion attempt.
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31-Year old Yocca was taken to St. Thomas Rutherford Medical Center in Murfreesboro by her boyfriend after she became alarmed at the amount of blood in the bathtub. She was then transferred to a medical facility in Nashville, where doctors delivered a premature baby.
Yocca is accused of causing medical issues to the child’s lungs, eyes and heart with the hanger. WTVF reports that an investigation into Yocca, an Amazon fulfillment center employee, began in September; she was indicted by a grand jury and is being held on $200,000 bond. His puncture wounds from the hanger will likely leave him permanently hooked up to an oxygen tank, according to local reports, and leaves Yocca facing attempted homicide charges.
Roberts reported the nurses and doctors he interviewed indicated Anna Yocca made “disturbing statements” about the baby and wanting to terminate her pregnancy with the coat hanger at about 24 weeks.
Other bills introduced in Tennessee’s GOP-led legislature, such as SB 1391, strip pregnant women of their constitutionally protected right to privacy under the guise of “protecting” fetuses and unborn babies, essentially giving the state a green light to investigate or incarcerate women based on pregnancy outcomes following the suspected illegal use of a narcotic.
This all-encompassing law also hurts women – like Yocca – who may have wanted a legal abortion, but couldn’t feasibly access one.
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“It has happened. We are back to the coat hanger days”.
