agreed. it’s also not completely out of the realm of possibilities that she genuinely did not know she was pregnant until after 16 weeks, tried to seek an abortion once she figured it out, was too far along for clinics in her state to provide her with care, and tried to self-abort as a last resort once she had…

If you are poor and have to travel for half a day just to get to the clinic that does abortions because access to them has been cut off anywhere near you, yes, two trips is an issue. That means two days off of work, which for an hourly worker, means no pay for those days, as well as the money to travel in the first…

you are making a LOT of assumptions there. Have you not heard of the “pregnancy crisis center” which masquerades as an abortion clinic when they are actually christian-run and try to basically make you run out the clock before you can legally terminate. She may have been caught up at one of those. She may not have…

You should go find your corroborating evidence to support your utterly empathy-free response/opinions instead of telling others to do it for you.

Considering that 96% of Tennessee counties do not have clinics, and women in Tennessee have to play by these restrictive rules, I think it’s more than safe to say she had trouble accessing care.

You really are stupid aren’t you. Your analogy is dumb as fuck because most of the time you wouldn’t go to jail for your accident. Also I’m a LIVING BREATHING WOMAN, not a fetus that couldn’t survive if there wasn’t a host & a shit load of medical intervention. And equating driving a car with BODILY AUTONOMY is such…

Did she really need to fuck him up with a coat hanger prior?

You really are dense aren’t you? All the smug must be making the oxygen thin or something.

At the time she attempted this it absolutely was a fetus.

I do not need to be told how people judge others

She didn’t intend to “disfigure” the baby. She intended to abort a foetus.

It’s a fetus. Not her child. Stop with romanticizing this.

You asked for a reason why and that’s it. This woman didn’t want to cause suffering to the fetus. She wanted to not be pregnant. Assuming she didn’t try anything else earlier makes you just as bad as people telling her she should have kept her legs closed.

I agree with all of that and I share your concerns. But, it looks like you’re maybe assuming that the sympathy and outrage is for her court case situation. It isn’t - it’s for the fact that she didn’t have access to birth control, education, early OB care, or mental health care, any and all of which could have…

Maybe you’re not seeing that around here cause literally everywhere else will demonize this woman. We’re just tired of it here.

No we can’t. That’s the problem. Pro Choice people see a troubled young girl, desperately in need of help, failed by draconian cuts of vital social services.

So often pro-lifers present the issue as a choice between abortions and no abortions. It is not. It is a choice between safe, legal procedures and a fucking horrorshow of misery and desperation.

Great. Just fucking great. Now, since 2012, three women have been prosecuted for abortion.

this is what happens when help is not available.  

Words have no meaning.