article_snippet: According to court documents, at first woman denied that woman had been pregnant but later told doctors that woman had a miscarriage and delivered a stillborn fetus which, woman said, woman placed in a bag in a dumpster.
article_snippet: "Feticide" would require Purvi Patel to have terminated a pregnancy while the fetus was still in the womb.  
article_snippet: On the other hand, "felony neglect of a dependent" requires delivering a live fetus and then neglecting a live fetus.
article_snippet: As Amanda Marcotte of Slate pointed out in February, Purvi Patel "was convicted both of killing a baby and killing a fetus."  
article_snippet: Initially, police questioned Purvi Patel when Purvi Patel was still in the hospital without an attorney present.  
article_snippet: Prosecutors would later introduce text messages indicating that Purvi Patel had purchased miscarriage-inducing drugs, but there was no evidence Purvi Patel took miscarriage-inducing drugs.  
article_snippet: In fact, Prosecutors didn't show up in blood tests just after Purvi Patel miscarried.
article_snippet: Purvi Patel is the second pregnant woman to be charged under Indiana's anti-choice "feticide" law.  
article_snippet: After all, Patel was convicted based on text messages about miscarriage-inducing drugs, not evidence Patel had used or even purchased such drugs.
article_snippet: Ask yourself: In the case of Purvi Patel, even if Purvi Patel did intend to self-abort and used black market drugs to do so, and if Purvi Patel indeed delivered a live fetus, wouldn't we want to live in a society where Purvi Patel would bring that baby to the hospital for life-saving medical attention rather than be so afraid of prosecution that Purvi Patel threw it in a dumpster?