She swore an oath to uphold her state’s laws. Then, Roe v. Wade was overturned.
, we spoke to this Missouri prosecutor, who doesn’t want to put women or doctors on trial over abortion, but she’s not sure she’ll be able to avoid it. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Jean Peters Baker follows the news. She saw the big abortion ruling coming. But the thing is: She didn’t quite believe it.It’s hard sometimes to prepare in advance for something that you even seen barreling down the tracks.
I do, as an individual, as a female, and politically, I do. But as a prosecutor, this is not the county of Jean Peters Baker. This is the county of Jackson, under the state of Missouri. And so the oath I took was to uphold all Missouri laws. That said, I can review these cases with a great amount of skepticism. I can view them knowing that maybe the black letter law might look easy, but the facts of these cases will not be.
And perhaps for the health care provider, you need to fully understand that individual’s thought about what they needed to do as a health care provider. What’s their oath?I’m trying to put myself in the position of a physician in Jackson County who has maybe provided abortions in the past and may be looking for guidance about what to do now. And I feel like hearing what you’re saying, it makes a lot of sense.
They’re in the background for every single prosecutor in America. I’m not different. Every jurisdiction in America will have rape victims that walk through their office doors that have been forcibly impregnated, or the potential for that to occur is great. Incest victims—and I don’t mean to be overly blunt, but this is where we are now—are so repeatedly attacked, they’re so repeatedly forced to have intercourse without their consent, that there’s a greater risk of pregnancy for them.
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