An Alabama woman Marshae Jones faces manslaughter charge after the death of a fetus.
Now, a grand jury has indicted her for manslaughter in the death of her unborn fetus, while declining to hand up a criminal indictment against Ebony Jemison -- the woman who shot her during a scuffle between the two women.
In a statement issued by the Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff District Attorney's office said that the grand jury had included in its conclusion that the fault in the incident rested entirely with Jones, who was five months pregnant at the time. Prosecutors insisted that"the new law played no role in the consideration of the Grand Jury" in Jones' case.In a joint statement, Planned Parenthood and Planned Parenthood Southeast said that the case represented the"criminalization of black women" and the refusal to give them justice.
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