In Florida, a pregnant woman incarcerated for murder asks this week to be released because of the fetus she is carrying. According to his lawyer, the unborn child must be considered as a person and as such, he would be incarcerated unjustly.
With our correspondent in Miami, David Thomson
The request for release is made in the name of Habeas Corpus, which makes it possible to challenge any arbitrary detention: in this case that of a fetus in the womb of its mother imprisoned for murder in a prison in Miami. According to his lawyer, this unborn child must be recognized as a person. However, this person is not accused of anything, he is therefore innocent and must be released. And therefore, his mother has to get out of prison until he is born. “ The unborn child has not been charged with any crime. He has rights independent of those of his mother even if he is still in her womb “, explains to the American press the lawyer William Norris, hired by the father of the unborn child.*
His mother-to-be, Natalia Harrel, 24, is jailed for fatally shooting another 28-year-old woman after an argument in the back of an Uber in July. At the time of her incarceration, she was six weeks pregnant. And in detention, the future mother believes that she does not receive the necessary gynecological care. The lawyer does not hide it, he surfs on the momentum offered by the revocation last June of the judgment Roe vs Wade which guaranteed the right to abortion at the federal level and therefore in an increasingly conservative Florida. William Norris says he is determined to fight for the ” freedom of the fetus “.