Posted on 01/18/2019 10:24:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Days after an immigration judge denied Layidua Salazar’s petition to remain in the United States in 2015 because she was not living with her spouse, she learned at an annual visit to Planned Parenthood that she was pregnant.
The possibility that she would not be allowed to stay in the country made her realize "within five minutes" that she couldn’t continue her pregnancy and risk her family being separated at some point, she said.
"I can’t do both. Can’t be in the middle of deportation proceedings and be pregnant," said Salazar, who is now a storyteller with We Testify, a program of the National Network of Abortion Funds. The organization works to decrease barriers, including financial, to abortion.
Because she had worked with reproductive justice organizations, she knew that her Planned Parenthood clinic in California's Bay Area did not have to disclose that she was undocumented. She had an abortion two days later.
"Reproductive healthcare for immigrant women is very much a patchwork system," Jessica González-Rojas, executive director at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, told NBC. "It often depends on where you live and the access that you have to reach certain communities."
The undocumented community "has lived in a major state of panic since about 2008," Salazar said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcconnecticut.com ...
The ignorance of those people is simply astounding. Most especially the one with the “My Body, My Rights”. The unborn child is NOT her body.
It is not reproductive it is not health and it is not care
Killing your baby is NOT “reproductive healthcare”!!!!
They’re citizens of some country, right? Let them access the healthcare provided by the country where they belong.
Yes, she can!
My concern for this illegals health left as soon as she broke into my country to perpetrate other crimes.
Send her home where she can get all of the care she likes.
We’re supposed to feel sorry for a woman who became pregnant by a man who is not her husband, because she might have been deported?
Why do Americans have to be responsible for the stupid choices of every human being on earth?
Ditto
The Democrat Party considers Taxpayer Paid Abortion on Demand for All to be a religious sacrament. To have anyone not have such a time proven wholesome action available at whim is the ultimate injustice.
She can sort it out back in whatever country she came from.
Oh if only we could find that gigantic pile of documents these wonderful “immigrants” lost!
Our Country, Our Rights!- Get Out!
Good! Maybe they should go home.
JoMa
Good. It should be. The limit should be zero.
Reproductive Healthcare = KILL THE BABY.
If the mother is healthy and the fetus is healthy how can an abortion be healthcare?
If the mother is healthy and the fetus is healthy how can an abortion be healthcare?
Wonderful question!!
I wish you would post that to the unhinged leftists posting on the #MarchForLife Twitter feed. Dangerously scary posts, from many of them, there :(
She was not interested, because deportation would mean the baby would not be an anchor baby.
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