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Nebraska teen sent to 90 days in jail over abortion
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You gotta make a series of bold assumptions to believe her only option was to get an abortion pill at 28 weeks and hold onto the babies remains.
She had 20 weeks to get an abortion, which is more liberal than almost all progressive european countries.
Right because the GOP is famously known for making it easy to get an abortion, and definitely don't defund abortion providers so that people have to drive for hours to get an abortion. I'm sure the odds are high she lives right next door to one of Nebraska's three whole abortion clinics, you know?
I don't know the exact scenario, only the facts presented in the article
The woman had 20 weeks to get an abortion, instead she took an abortion pill at 28 weeks and held onto the babies remains.
I'm sure during the 5 months, she could have found a day to drive and get an abortion if it was important to her.
I do believe there should be more abortion clinics available, but have you ever lived in a rural state? The 3 are in the largest cities in the state, where nearly 50% of the population lives.
Putting an abortion clinic in a town of 1,000 people doesn't make sense for clinics. I think your disgust comes from your lack of understanding rural america.
Okay first of all the article doesn't say "held onto the babies remains." She plead guilty to removing or concealing human skeletal remains, which most likely means she buried it.
See, that's an assumption, not a fact presented in the article. You don't know if she had access to a car, and public transportation in rural areas is known for being practically nonexistent. It's possible she didn't get an abortion sooner because she simply did not have the means to.
You realize places like Planned Parenthood don't just perform abortions, right? They provide all kinds of other family planning and women's healthcare services, which are useful for most women, not just those looking to get an abortion. It makes sense for them to be easily accessible to everyone. And GOP has been attacking Planned Parenthood for years specifically to make it harder for women to get abortions. What this woman went through is exactly the sort of thing that was inevitable when the Republican party attacks women's rights.