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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That’s her right so what’s wrong?
The average travel time to an abortion facility more than tripled, from less than 30 minutes to more than an hour and a half,
The father was not available for comment... and neither was the child.
Tough on the baby too.
At 45 if you have not yet figured out that you can buy birth control at your local gas station you are not smart enough to hold down a job mopping out said gas station.
And who knows, they have all that extra time to change their minds, possibly. Even more “horrible”.
My auntie dropped her last one at 42. Grew up to be a fine young man, with lots of adult influence.
No one should complain about the jews, gypsies, and undesirables who were murdered between 1939 and 1945 in Europe. After all, it was legal to do so and the right of the german people to exterminate the people they did not want around.
And so women get to do the same today. They have a ‘right’ to murder a child.
Perhaps if she had kept her legs closed she wouldn’t have had to worry about getting pregnant..but hey how nice of her the first thing she thought of was murdering her baby what a nice lady
Inconvenient to kill a preborn baby? How rude. Planned Parenthood should have drive thru service with free fast food.
Why? It's just a tissue mass. Not a human being that would bear your likeness and name or anything.
Yet, they had months to do something about it..?
Have Baby
Will Travel
So she knew abortions were illegal in Louisiana, but she kept spreading her legs just the same. Hard to feel sorry for her...
Women have so many options short of abortion, including surgery. So many different ways, some are just under the arm and last years.
All these options have done zero to reduce abortion numbers. Its not that women don’t have many option, they refuse to be responsible adults. They just want to be little f bunnies and then play victim and so many people buy this act.
Wondering what the average travel time/expense for a Chicago resident to exercise his right to own a firearm? Is it even legal at all?
“It was probably one of the hardest things I’ve had to go through ...”
Second only to the time i voted for Walter Mondale for President.
In California, any woman can get an abortion for free. They don’t have to live in the state, and it doesn’t matter how much money they have.
It was the extra male pheromones in the air in that conservative area.
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