Posted on 07/09/2023 12:31:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
When 45-year-old Victoria realized she was five weeks late and the lines showed as positive on two pregnancy tests, the New Orleans resident dreamed up a plan to get an abortion.
Traveling out of state was the only abortion option for Victoria, who asked CNN to withhold her last name out of fear of backlash against her and her family. Louisiana is one of several states that have essentially banned all abortions.
“It was probably one of the hardest things I’ve had to go through, from the moment of discovering that I was pregnant at age 45 to actually having to have to take time off work, travel across the country, do a meeting with a doctor, and then take the pills and then skedaddle back home and then go to work like nothing had happened,” Victoria told CNN of her experience earlier this year.
Victoria’s story about the distance she traveled and the hardships she endured to get an abortion reflects a wider American reality, where women seeking the procedure must navigate through a patchwork of states with varying levels of access.
The average travel time to an abortion facility more than tripled, from less than 30 minutes to more than an hour and a half, after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, according to a November study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And for women in Texas and Louisiana, average travel times to the nearest abortion facility were seven hours longer – almost a full workday in travel time to get an abortion.
Victoria says she was grateful she could drop everything and afford to spend $1,000 for the procedure, including same-week airfare with connections both ways and appointment and medication fees.
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Don’t feel sorry for her. She could have used birth control. Her unborn child deserves the pity.
It was her last chance to have a child. I wonder if she will regret it one day.
One of the hardest things you ever did to your baby also ...
It’s not her body. It’s someone else’s body. She’s just carrying it.
Its nearly 3 hours for me to travel to the nearest VA hospital for doctors appointments ...
Wheres the article on me or any other veteran ???
Tougher on the baby!
“It felt so surreal to get this really high standard of care around my secondary sexual characteristics, but then to have that freeze, slam shut when it comes to reproductive health”
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Clearly scripted and planned. Total BS story to further the Trans agenda. I’m retired NICU & OB and the term “secondary sex characterizes” was maybe uttered only once or twice. One doesn’t normally talk like that unless they are quite well versed. Prayers they’re repenting en masse at CNN and looking for other jobs because it’s clearly toast.
Loved the part where she said she thought she couldn’t get pregnant at 45.
No mention of the father of the child.
If she was screwing around when she got pregnant, an unwanted pregnancy might not be the only thing she needed to worry about.
And it might not be as easy to get rid of an unwanted STD.
Victoria would disagree with you though. Not everybody thinks like you do.
An Inconvenient Murder
No the problem is that in 2022 she was able to contract for the murder of that years baby right there in her own state in her own city ...
She got an abortion during her lunch hour ...
This year she had to travel etc ...
Such a heroic mother! She bravely flew out of state to get her baby properly butchered! Had she not done that deed the world would have been cursed with another child. All mothers should be so thoughtful. It would alleviate overpopulation.
Insane. A miracle pregnancy and she is too panicked to appreciate the astounding gift offered to her.
So, she went across the country to commit murder. Legalize murder in this case, sad. She should reflect on that guilt every day for the rest of her life.
Not according to our creator.
What some demon controlled people won’t do to satisfy their desire to murder a baby.
Oh boo hoo.
When I was 19, I was sterilized due to health conditions that would make pregnancy a literal death sentence, both for myself and the child (due to the medications I had to take, they’d kill the baby). I did not want to ever have to wind up in that situation, and having children was never going to be safe for me.
Sometimes I get a little sad that I could never have kids, but the risk was too high. It was never going to be possible.
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