Roe v. Wade is gone.

[Rev. Rye]

Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi

A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi gave birth to a boy after she was raped as well as impregnated by a stranger – and then was unable to get an abortion, according to a Time magazine report published on Monday.

The mother of the girl, who uses the pseudonym Ashley in the report, was looking to get an abortion for her daughter but was told the closest abortion provider was in Chicago – a drive of more than nine hours from their home in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Last summer, just a week after the ruling, a local newspaper in Ohio reported that a 10-year-old who was raped had to travel to Indiana for an abortion because of restrictions in her state. A man was found guilty last month of raping and impregnating the girl in that case, and he received a sentence of life imprisonment.

Other stories detail how women nearly died because doctors had to wait until their life was at risk to perform an abortion – or that many women now have to travel long distances to get any kind of reproductive healthcare. An estimated 25 million women ages 15 to 33 live in states that have abortion restrictions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...ives-birth

One minor point: the girl was told that the closest abortion provider was in Chicago. As a native Illinoisan with a slightly more than passing knowledge of geography (there's a huge part of Illinois south of Chicago, no matter how much we may ignore it), I saw that and thought "That can't be right." Checking it up on abortionfinder.com, she could have shaved three hours off that nine hour drive and gone to Carbondale and gone to either Alamo Women's Clinic of Illinois or Choices.

That said, the larger point remains: why the fuck should a 13-year-old have to travel more than 250 miles to get rid of the bun that some waste of jissom put in her oven?





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