PA Mom gets prison for getting daughter abortion

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

Huh? The opponents I've encountered and read about are motivated sometimes by a religious belief abortion is murder and sometimes for the well-being of the fetus. Only heard of women's safety and health as an after-thought from the lifers.

I don't think this woman belongs in prison. I also think that driving 75 miles each way and $300-$600 is not an 'undue burden', especially when the sperm donor and or his family should bear at least half the cost and assist in transportation.

What is an 'undue burden' is to expect individuals having nothing to do with the mistake these two made, paying for the solution.

The lawmakers who pass laws restricting access to abortion talk in terms of protecting women's health. Look up the stuff lawmakers said in Texas and Virginia when they passed laws requiring abortion clinics to follow rules that they considered unnecessary to impose on ANY other kind of outpatient clinic.

You have not, perhaps, ever been really poor, which is why losing your job because you had to take two days off work (24-hour waiting period in PA!) and take the only car for a reason you can't tell your partner because you're afraid of what he'll do), doesn't occur to you as a possible outcome. Poverty comes with a bunch of bad options that the middle class don't have to consider.

It sucks that she was honest with the hospital. The article pointed out that treatment for a naturally occurring miscarriage is no different than for a chemically induced one. And miscarriages aren't uncommon; the hospital would likely not have suspected anything. So much for the truth shall set you free.