It's judicial machismo that jails women like Sarah Catt | Simon Jenkins

Damage to the company without sending the women's prison is much greater than his crime: in this area, the medieval Britain

Sarah Catt's case presented today can evoke much sympathy. After exceeding the limit of 24 weeks for an abortion, she bought a medicine from India, and self-aborted fetus removed, perhaps in a week. She believed her father to be her lover and his family wanted to hide. A judge in Seville, Judge Cooke, sent to prison for eight years, a minimum of four people to serve.

What conceivable good can be served by a sentence? It just seems a gesture of rage abominable by the judge. Catt accused of stealing "a seemingly defenseless child ... life was about to begin." The judge uses harms women often used cliché, it was "cold and calculating", as if any woman who expects sympathy should be warm and emotional. She had been to university and acted "in their own interest," no woman should. Judge abortion classified as "between homicide and murder of the criminal ladder."

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police added misfortune traditional "on the steps of the courthouse," a modern version of the pillory. Catt was "extremely misleading, cold and calculating." She had shown no remorse and had lied to all concerned. The police hoped that "now is the time to reflect on their actions."

small for pro Catt said, except that she had a loving husband who was with her, and a family to stay together. A history of pregnancy at the University led to the adoption. She had an affair and, on the facts presented, acted in panic and despair to find she was pregnant.

have been informed by a clinic which was higher than the limit, Catt was for a second opinion and again refused an abortion. We have searched the internet for help and ended up with a drug of Mumbai. What would be a terrible process of self-administration, labor and disposal of the fetus should be hidden from his family. When it is detected, it is passed from one to another lie to hide what he had done.

• Catt said the fetus was stillborn, but clearly not help himself by refusing to say where he was. Despite the absence of a body or other evidence that the fetus was alive, the judge used the abortion law, but a 1861 law offenses against the person of his sentence. It should be the judge's participation at their nominal value, which led the process macabre without a shudder of pain or emotion, even if it seems unlikely.
• The judge said the act was between manslaughter and murder, but you can not kill a fetus. It can be about a person, but the common law is not a live birth and independent of its mother. Is it legal to terminate a pregnancy after 24 weeks and in truth unto the end, though under strict medical supervision and only when there is a serious risk of failure or serious and permanent injury to the mother. What I did was clearly illegal Catt, but not for murder or murder.

Many women have experienced pregnancy and abortion outside the strict limits of the law, the balance between the risk of discovery against other risks and unforeseen adverse birth. Many women must have panicked, in these circumstances, then have seemed "calculated" to a male judge, when he was completely traumatized. In any case, it seems that the role of the justice system to prosecute and convict on the basis of female behavior, let alone expect a better emotional behavior of those who went to university.

Catt would not have done what he did, but his blocking distance for eight years will cost the state about £ 225,000 in costs. Should approach the destruction of his family. A long sentence is like a judge must know, "life", given the impact it has on life after that. Everything about the case suggests that a woman in desperate need of care and treatment.

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