She Just Had a Baby. Soon, She'll Start 7th Grade.
After the fall of Roe v. Wade, some travel hundreds of miles to get abortions. This is the story of a girl who couldn't
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The fact that democrats running for office aren’t blasting this to use fear to drive votes is moronic.
The republicans are great at weaponizing fear, it would be so easy to make ads that say “GOP wants you to carry your rapists baby and then have them shot up going to school”
“GOP wants you to carry your rapists baby
There's exceptions for rape, she didn't use the exception, people can't force them to have an abortion, even if you'd like to.
then have them shot up going to school”
What? Get off the internet and stop making up fear mongering.
There is no establish procedure to get the rape exception in Mississippi, and even if there was, there are no abortion providers left in Mississippi. The mother asked about an abortion and was told that her best option was to go to Chicago. That's not really an option for lower income people.
FYI, since Mississippi's abortion law went into effect, only 2 exceptions have been granted.
Hey, how about reading the article before regurgitating your shit (wrong) opinions?
Here, I'll help.
At their second visit, about a week later, Regina tentatively asked Balthrop if there was any way to terminate Ashley’s pregnancy. Seven months earlier, Balthrop could have directed Ashley to abortion clinics in Memphis, 90 minutes north, or in Jackson, Miss., two and a half hours south. But today, Ashley lives in the heart of abortion-ban America. In 2018, Republican lawmakers in Mississippi enacted a ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The law was blocked by a federal judge, who ruled that it violated the abortion protections guaranteed by Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court felt differently. In their June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly half a century. Within weeks, Mississippi and every state that borders it banned abortion in almost all circumstances.
Balthrop told Regina that the closest abortion provider for Ashley would be in Chicago. At first, Regina thought she and Ashley could drive there. But it’s a nine-hour trip, and Regina would have to take off work. She’d have to pay for gas, food, and a place to stay for a couple of nights, not to mention the cost of the abortion itself. “I don’t have the funds for all this,” she says.
So Ashley did what girls with no other options do: she did nothing.
This is what the policies you support cause. I hope you'll do some research and reconsider.
He won't. But I wish he would, too.
