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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Its immaterial. They physically have a wider range of products to pick from. This is relevant because its inherently more choice for womem, and far more likely to find one or more products they would be willing to use. Because not all,products will be acceptable formevery woman to consider using.
Spermicide i did not count for either because its not a effecfive method as a standalone option, while the rest I mentioned are. And both sides could access it, bit often it would be unnecessady because many condoms have spermicide in the package or on the surface of the condom..
And per your last commemt, all anyone needs to do to wipe their sterility out is take the covax shots. Problem is it might wipe them out, permanently.
It is sort of like saying there are all these varities of pop but when you get right down to it really there is just cola, sarsaparilla and fruit flavored.
Lets just agree we dont agree and move on.
That is enough common ground. :)
I’ll take it. :)
Wow. That’s a powerful perspective.
Congratulations for killing your baby!
If you read my post by itself, it sounds like its my opinion. The post was, instead, a sarcastic response to post #2 in this thread and that person said the woman was only doing what was legal.
But the sentiment is true. Women are legally allowed to murder certain people and those people are called babies.
Oh boo hoo.
Someone made it harder for her to kill her baby.
These people act like a pregnancy just happens out of thin air.
She holds the key to preventing it.
First world problems...
I wish I could remember the name of the book someone told me about. But it talked about some of the emotional pain women go through after an abortion. I knew someone who had an abortion in the past, and it took her going to a Christian healing weekend specifically designed for women who had abortions in order to finally find some peace.
It may seem expedient at the time, but there are serious emotional consequences.
First-world problems: Having to travel 90 minutes to kill my baby!
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