Woman Tries Self-Abortion But Baby Survives And Woman Is Arrested!

This 31-year-old Tennessee woman was just charged with first-degree murder for trying to conduct a self-abortion. The woman, named Anna Yocca, is said to have used a coat hanger to carryout the attempted abortion.

The vaginally insertion of the coat hangar is reported to have done so much damage to the unborn child that the surviving child will be injured for a lifetime. Reports also say that the male child was induced to birth at a weight of only 1.5 pounds in September.


According to reports, the woman tried to conduct the self abortion by filling a bathtub with water, then inserting the hangar with the intent to dislodge the fetus from her womb. These reports say that the amount of blood gushing from the woman’s vagina scared her enough to have her and her boyfriend dial 911 for an ambulance.

When the woman arrived at St. Thomas Mid-Town Hospital in Nashville, the medical staff was able to save the premature child, tentatively named “Baby Yocca.”

The Murfreesboro woman is believed to have felt stuck because there was no legal abortion clinic in her town. Reports say that Yocca would have had to drive nearly an hour away to find a legal abortion clinic that is still open in the state of Tennessee.