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A 45-year-old got pregnant in a state with a ban on abortions. She flew across the country to get one
CNN ^ | Sun July 9, 2023 | Christina Zdanowicz

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; christinazdanowicz; makingstoryup; prolife
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To: MinorityRepublican

*** skedaddle back home and then go to work like nothing had happened***

Wait, I thought they’ve been telling us that abortions are no big deal. They’re easy peasy. Now this woman tells us she wanted to take some time off from it.


21 posted on 07/09/2023 12:42:22 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: MinorityRepublican
...who asked CNN to withhold her last name out of fear of backlash...

I call BS on this entire story. A 45 year old New Orleans resident named Victoria who recently traveled across the country and later sought out CNN, does not seem overly protective of her anonymity.

22 posted on 07/09/2023 12:43:52 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If Louisiana is such an inconvenient place for her, why did she go back? You’d think Oregon is looking for people just like her to keep the abortion mills in business.


23 posted on 07/09/2023 12:45:51 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Did she figure out the cause? Just think. A little planning and she could have stayed home.


24 posted on 07/09/2023 12:46:29 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Exactly. Abortion tourism.

A baby murdered and the author is mostly concerned about travel time.

Other than that, this is probably made up anyway.


25 posted on 07/09/2023 12:46:49 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Heartless harpy!


26 posted on 07/09/2023 12:47:27 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Victoria joked that she’s “careening toward menopause,” but she says she has not been diagnosed as perimenopausal.

Her pregnancy news came several months after she was treated for a uterine fibroid, a benign growth, in July 2022, according to medical records. Victoria also tested positive for a PALB2 gene mutation, which can lead to an increased chance of breast cancer, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. She underwent a preventative double mastectomy and reconstruction earlier in 2022, according to medical records provided to CNN.

She says she got an excellent standard of care around her surgeries, but it felt dissonant with her state’s laws around abortion.

“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, it just felt abrupt,” she said.

********** Must have been one of them Drag Queens that got her preggers after she got a double mastectomy.


27 posted on 07/09/2023 12:48:07 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

45 year old? What planet did she just arrived from? Doesn’t she believe in birth control? The pill is older than forever and yet she wasn’t protecting yourself? I don’t buy this BS story. 45 is the midpoint to 50 for crying out loud. What part of protection doesn’t she understand? Condoms, the pill, and other such devices that would’ve prevented a pregnancy. I think she purposely did it because she’s one of those radical must have an abortion to make a statement pieces of shit! Sorry folks I don’t buy the story. She got pregnant with bad intentions.


28 posted on 07/09/2023 12:48:50 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m trying to feel sorry for her, but it’s not working.


29 posted on 07/09/2023 12:50:39 PM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. Cat = cat.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“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”

Do we live in a soft, spoiled and affluent society or what?


30 posted on 07/09/2023 12:55:39 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: MinorityRepublican

I wonder if Victoria ever heard of bearth control pills, which would most likely be somewhat less expensive than an abortion?


31 posted on 07/09/2023 12:57:38 PM PDT by dearolddad
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To: MinorityRepublican

You’d think at 45 she’d know how babies are made.


32 posted on 07/09/2023 12:57:54 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: teeman8r
The father was not available for comment

I suspect that there was more than a few "baby daddies" involved.  

33 posted on 07/09/2023 12:58:56 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So she was able to get one. Why is this a story?


34 posted on 07/09/2023 1:00:10 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m having a hard time feeling sorry for her having to go out of her way to murder an infant.


35 posted on 07/09/2023 1:00:44 PM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Couldn’t legally whack them, so waited till they left the country,” is the clown’s playbook, so she must be using the “Fib Be I” one. Plausible deniability... right up until judgement day.


36 posted on 07/09/2023 1:01:24 PM PDT by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: plain talk

We live in one bereft of any personal accountability. At least, seemingly, with females. They create mayhem and chaos, then point fingers all around.


37 posted on 07/09/2023 1:01:24 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Did I miss something? Not one word about the sperm donor.


38 posted on 07/09/2023 1:02:41 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: MinorityRepublican

So she’s forty five and doesn’t know how to prevent pregnancy

Now that’s stupid


39 posted on 07/09/2023 1:03:41 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

DIRTYSECRET wrote:


That’s her right so what’s wrong?

She murdered an innocent baby.


40 posted on 07/09/2023 1:04:45 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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