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This Alabama
middle schooler has been arrested

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after taking a basketball
back out from under her shirt last week.

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13 year old Grace
Smith placed a basketball

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under her shirt saying,
look at me, I'm pregnant.

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But after her period was over,
she removed the basketball

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and was immediately reported
for terminating her pregnancy.

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Under Alabama's abortion
ban, Smith has been jailed

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and is currently awaiting
trial and has been criticized by pro-life

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advocates for callously ending the life
of an innocent, defenseless basketball.

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The state of Alabama has noted

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that they will prosecute
to the fullest extent of the law

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and that Smith could be facing up
to 20 years of jail time.

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Prosecutors have noted
that there will be no leniency

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regardless of whether the basketball
was forcibly placed under Smith's shirt

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or if continuing to carry the basketball
for nine months

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would have presented
medical complications.

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While many are condemning
the handling of Smith's case,

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others are saying
that she's getting what she deserves

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as that basketball could have
one day grown up to be in the NBA.