Death-row prisoner gets pregnant in solitary

[helderheid]

Thu Oct 12, 8:19 AM ET

A death-row inmate held in solitary confinement in Vietnam for almost a year is pregnant and is seeking a pardon to give birth, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper quoted a police doctor as saying tests in September confirmed that convicted heroin trafficker Nguyen Thi Oanh, 39, was then 11 weeks pregnant.

The report said it was the first time that a death-row prisoner had become pregnant in Vietnam and that police were investigating how it had happened.

Oanh's husband was serving a jail sentence at another prison in another province, the newspaper said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/od_nm/vietnam_pregnancy_dc;_ylt=AucOkn1Zb6BT0T9kKgdJLsms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Someone had it in for her.

[bryant69]

2. Police are investigating how a woman got pregnent?

There's a very special episode of CHiPs in there somewhere.

Bryant
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[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. IT'S A MIRACLE!

[AnneD]

7. You took the words out of my mouth.....

another immaculate conception.

[Llewlladdwr]

15. You don't really have the slightest idea what you're talking about.

Do you?

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. It wasn't Miracle Whip, that's for sure.

[Jed Dilligan]

4. There's a way to short-circuit a GOPig

Kill her! Save the fetus! No, wait... (smoke pours out of ears)

This is actually an old defense: "We plead our bellies" saved a couple of female pirates from the gallows IIRC.

[Warpy]

8. Pleading one's belly

also caused death sentences for theft to be communted to deportation to the colonies as an indentured servant.

Piracy provided a rare death sentence, especially for women. It was usually the theft of bread or picking pockets, or any of dozens of crimes we'd consider petty.

[Jed Dilligan]

14. I'm thinking of a particular story

Anne Bonny and Marie Read

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0024.html

[bluerum]

5. How did this happen?!? Divine intervention!

The report said it was the first time that a death-row prisoner had become pregnant in Vietnam and that police were investigating how it had happened.

Well,, I don't know about on death row in Vietnam, but elsewhere pregnancy often results after a male-female sexual union.

Unless of course the divine intervention defense is called to spare the womans life. Clearly she has been chosen.

[Stargleamer]

6. or perhaps in this case. . .

the rape of the prisoner by a male guard. At least in this country guards still have contact with solitary confinement prisoners.

[Bluebear]

9. "How to make a right-wing Christian's head explode" nt

[leftofthedial]

10. if viet nam had repukes

they'd just rename it "birth row"

[louis-t]

11. Guess the 'confinement ' wasn't so 'solitary'.

[Ian David]

12. Someone could have smuggled-in a turkey baster, too. n/t