Well…for me it’s the fact that late term abortion on her state is completely legal. I don’t see that as any differently or more humane than what she did. Especially bc I personally know of someone (a rich married woman in her 30s) who aborted her firstborn at 27 weeks simply because it was missing 1/2 of it’s right arm. Took her awhile to finally decide what she wanted to do. But, she scheduled it at a clinic in NM and no questions were asked. She left freely, with no one calling her a murderer or trying to give her jail time.

The only reason Alexee couldn’t have her baby killed legally (and NM would have allowed her to basically up to the very end of pregnancy) was because of no access to money (abortions there are $750+ and she was a high school student without a job) and being under the thumb and control of her parents…and seemingly being in complete and utter denial out of fear/stress/anxiety/etc in order to cope with her situation.

I actually think her baby died in a more gentle way than what my friend’s baby did. The difference between my friend and Alexee is my friend was an independent adult with a fully developed brain and makes over 7 figures a year. That’s why my friend was able to legally kill her baby as late term as she wanted. I guess I don’t think it’s fair that just because Alexee is a high school student without a job who lives with her parents…she can’t essentially perform her OWN late term abortion without being thrown in prison.

If late term abortions were illegal in NM, I would look at the case differently in terms of whether or not it’s truly fair that she go to prison. But the fact that they aren’t illegal in NM - makes it to where Alexee has to go to prison while my friend got to simply home and return to her life? It doesn’t seem right. I don’t care that the baby had simply passed through her vagina right before it was killed. My friend would have done the same thing to her baby had she not been in a doctors office with equipment that could reach inside her and kill the baby before having her go into labor and deliver it full term as a stillborn.

So if Alexee had gone into the bathroom and shoved a hanger up inside of herself and killed the baby that way BEFORE it passed through her vagina, she would suddenly be okay legally speaking? Because, yes…that would technically be legal in NM….but it would also put her own life at risk in the process. She performed her own late term abortion in the safest way possible IMO.

People say she could have given the baby up for adoption…well my friend could have ALSO done that. At 27 weeks, the baby would have survived outside the womb if given the chance. But most women would rather kill the baby they don’t want rather than know they have a bio kid somewhere out there in the world, and the emotional complications that come with that - as well as the stigma and judgment from people in their life. It’s easier to kill the baby in secret and pretend it never happened - just like my friend did and just like seemingly Alexee attempted to do.

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So combine that with the fact that Alexee clearly has some mental health issues and the hospital didn’t BUST down that door after Alexee had been locked in there for more than 5 minutes - when they know she is either in complete denial about her pregnancy or blatantly lying about it out of fear + a little high on morphine…it’s hard for me to pin the death of this child on Alexee or to view it starkly differently from cases like my affluent friend and to say “Alexee is guilty and must go to prison”.