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Crossing the 'abortion desert': Women increasingly travel out of their states for the procedure
Los Angeles Times ^
| June 2, 2016
| Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Posted on 06/02/2016 8:15:20 AM PDT by Salman
When she discovered she was pregnant, the 22-year-old aspiring veterinarian started calling abortion clinics in her home state of Oklahoma. It was a short list – there are only two, and neither could get her an appointment quickly.
Unemployed, no car, and still living with her parents, Pearl thought about trying Texas, but knew the state had also recently tightened restrictions on clinics.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Oklahoma; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abortion; california; deathpanels; losangeles; losangelesslimes; losangelestimes; mollyhennessyfiske; obamacare; oklahoma; plannedparenthood; prolife; stemexpress; texas; veterinarian; zerocare
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From a pro-abort viewpoint obviously, but worth reading the whole thing to understand the psychology.
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:15:20 AM PDT
by
Salman
To: Salman
There honestly is no understanding the psychology of the pro-aborts. They are hell-bent on killing babies, that’s all.
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:19:45 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
To: Salman
Unemployed, no car, and still living with her parents
I feel sorry for Pearl
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:20:01 AM PDT
by
lesko
To: Salman
Human sacrifice to the god of convenience. The most extreme form of narcissism.
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:20:39 AM PDT
by
mrmeyer
(You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
To: Salman
Like Michael Obama’s “food desert” vocabulary, where the move was to INCREASE the number of grocery stores in order to fight childhood obesity, clearly we must increase the number of abortion clinics to reduce abortion.
Do I need the /s?
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:21:22 AM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Salman
Not buying it...she couldn’t get an appointment in Oklahoma?
The laws were too ‘strict’ in Texas?
Dollars to donuts, the ‘abortion desert’ referred to is a late term, likely 3rd trimester abortion. And yes, people do travel from all over the country to Wichita, to get late term abortions that are rightly illegal in most states.
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:21:29 AM PDT
by
lacrew
To: lesko
Unemployed, no car, and still living with her parents - but still having unprotected sex. Sounds like she has it all.
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:21:41 AM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(Democrat Drinking Game - Every time they mention a new social program, chug someone else's beer.)
To: Salman
Perhaps this will get women to think more about birth control BEFORE getting pregnant.
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:22:11 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
She just needs an EBT card and life will be complete.
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:23:37 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
Do these people even know where babies come from?
It’s always framed as a total surprise by the MSM.
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:25:21 AM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
(Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
To: Salman
“It’s ridiculous that I have to travel,” Pearl said as she waited at the clinic last week to get abortion medication. “Not everyone is as strong as this. Not everyone is made of stone. It’s stressful to travel all this way.”
Thankfully, at her age she was strong enough to make that 4-hour voyage to exercise her god-given right to murder her unborn child.
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:25:50 AM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Salman
Plenty of abortion clinics in blue states in minority neighborhoods.
Just saying...
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:28:45 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Salman
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posted on
06/02/2016 8:52:31 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: Salman
Not only do they believe in a “right” to kill their unborn child, they think they have a “right” for it to be convenient for them.
And for somebody else to pay for it.
To: Salman
but worth reading the whole thing to understand the psychology. Murder for Hire. Motive. Like most murders, convenience (financial).
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posted on
06/02/2016 9:03:15 AM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(Past performance is the best prediction of future results)
To: Darren McCarty
Yes, but also entitlement.
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posted on
06/02/2016 9:05:00 AM PDT
by
Salman
To: Salman
Somebody bring out the tiny violins and play some pitiful
tune . . . quick! . . My eyes are tearing up & this page
is blurring . . . . OH! THE HUMANITY!!!\s
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posted on
06/02/2016 9:16:17 AM PDT
by
Twinkie
(John 3:16)
To: Salman
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posted on
06/02/2016 9:23:15 AM PDT
by
onedoug
One would think an aspiring veterinarian would understand how pregnancy happens. Hell, sell it to a planned parenthood shop so that ‘it’ can be parted out like a chop shop does a ‘92 Buick
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posted on
06/02/2016 9:49:58 AM PDT
by
TnTnTn
To: Salman
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posted on
06/02/2016 10:01:23 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(We don't differ much about what things we call evil; we differ about what evils we call excusable.)
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