Atlanta sources have stated that Purvi Patel, the Indian-American woman whose feticide conviction was overturned by the Indiana Court of Appeals in July, has walked out of prison Thursday, a day after a judge resentenced her to less time than she had already served and has ordered her immediate release.
Purvi Patel, 35, was with relatives when she left the Indiana Women’s Prison in Indianapolis about 10 a.m., has said Indiana Department of Correction spokesman Doug Garrison and her attorney, Lawrence Marshall, has stated that Patel is very joyful that this day has come, but that she now needs privacy so that she can focus on rebuilding her life.
It was stated that Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2015, two years after her self-induced abortion at her family’s home and the appeals court ruled that the state Legislature didn’t intend for the feticide law to be used to prosecute women for their own abortions.
Meanwhile Lynn M. Paltrow of politicalresearch.org has told that the state’s explanation took the interpretation of the feticide law to an even further extreme as prosecutor Ken Cotter has argued that a person can be guilty of feticide even if the fetus in question survives, as long as a deliberate attempt was made to ‘terminate’ the pregnancy ‘with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus.
