An eastern Idaho woman faces a felony after she told authorities she took pills to terminate her pregnancy on Christmas Eve and kept the fetus in a box on her back porch for several days, according to a police report that was unsealed Tuesday.

Why did she try to terminate the pregnancy herself?



According to a police report obtained by The Associated Press, McCormack told authorities her sister ordered pills for her online and she took them to terminate her pregnancy because she did not have enough money to have the procedure done by a licensed professional.

That's what happens when the forced birthers make abortion inaccessible and unaffordable. Because women in desperate situations don't become less desperate just because it's against the law. And the $5,000 fine and five-year prison sentence she's now facing isn't going to help. Not that it matters to the "concerned" acquaintance, Brenda Carnahan, who just had to speak up for the fetus:

"I'm a grandmother myself. And the love and the compassion I have for my grandkids? They're my life. And I felt that if somebody didn't speak up for this baby, who would? It doesn't have a voice anymore," Carnahan said.

And thanks to Grandma Carnahan, three actual living children, ages 2, 11 and 17, could lose their mother for the next five years. Because that's what being "pro-life" really means: save the fetus, screw the children.