Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi

[RandySF]

A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi gave birth to a boy after she was raped as well as impregnated by a stranger – and then was unable to get an abortion, according to a Time magazine report published on Monday.

The mother of the girl, who uses the pseudonym Ashley in the report, was looking to get an abortion for her daughter but was told the closest abortion provider was in Chicago – a drive of more than nine hours from their home in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Ashley’s mother, referred to as Regina in the report, told Time that the cost of getting an abortion in Chicago was too expensive when considering the price of travel, taking time off work and getting the abortion for her daughter.

“I don’t have the funds for all this,” Regina told Time.

The report is the latest in a series of horrific personal accounts that have surfaced after the US supreme court overturned the nationwide abortion access rights which had been established by the Roe v Wade precedent. Since the decision, titled Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 14 state laws banning abortion have gone into effect, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/mississippi-abortion-ban-girl-raped-gives-birth

[RandySF]

1. Note: The mother was given bad information.

I know for a fact there are providers in southern Illinois. Still a long drive, but at least three hours closer than Chicago.

[yardwork]

18. There were probably complicating factors.

It's possible that the child required specialized abortion care in a tertiary care hospital.

[Captain Zero]

3. Can the new mom take the baby to Seventh Grade with her?

?

[Tickle]

4. Where's the outrage for the rapist?

You do know under Mississippi law you can get an abortion for rape or life threatening pregnancy. Did they catch the rapist? Incest to, you can get an abortion for incest.

[Recycle_Guru]

5. really? I don't think you have up to date info on the abortion situation

in southern states

[Tickle]

16. it's dated June 27th 2022 NT

[NutmegYankee]

6. The exceptions are not real.

They are basically affirmative defenses once you are charged and on trial, after you lost your license, so that you can hope the jury accepts that defense and frees you. No doctor is going to do an abortion with that hanging over their head.

[ecstatic]

8. Bingo! nt

[Tickle]

15. here is there center of reproductive rights

https://reproductiverights.org/maps/state/mississippi/#:~:text=On%20June%2027%2C%202022%2C%20the,Code%20Ann.

On June 27, 2022, the Mississippi Attorney General certified the state’s trigger ban, which bans all abortions except to save the life of the pregnant person, or in cases of rape or incest that have been reported to law enforcement,[1] following the U.S. Supreme Courts decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.[2] After being challenged in court,[3] the trigger ban is currently in effect.[4]

Don't shoot the messenger I just did little research and this is what I found

[yardwork]

19. There probably aren't any providers willing to take the risk.

These "exceptions" are written into law, but in practice, no medical providers will take the risk of going to prison. Essentially, there is no abortion care in many states now, especially throughout the south.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. You DO KNOW Mississippi is full of shit and NOBODY will provide an abortion with PRISON

hanging over their head which is EXACT:Y WHAT MISSISSIPPI INTENDED when they passed their bullshit knuckle-dragging two-fingers-worth-of-forehead, woman-hating, child-hating, ANTI-LIFE law right?

By the way it's too, not to.

[Tickle]

14. you could have done this but here you go

https://reproductiverights.org/maps/state/mississippi/#:~:text=On%20June%2027%2C%202022%2C%20the,Code%20Ann.

On June 27, 2022, the Mississippi Attorney General certified the state’s trigger ban, which bans all abortions except to save the life of the pregnant person, or in cases of rape or incest that have been reported to law enforcement,[1] following the U.S. Supreme Courts decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.[2] After being challenged in court,[3] the trigger ban is currently in effect.[4]

[MorbidButterflyTat]

17. +1

Zillion!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Please describe the process of getting an exception abortion in MS.

[Tickle]

12. google it I did NT

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Lol

[Hekate]

20. Tickle, I have bad news for you. They lie. And then they lie some more. They don't care if women die

…or if little girls are maimed on the way to dying. The legislators who wrote these laws have no medical training, and they listen to the weeping testimony of women and they do not care.

[yardwork]

21. Ok, you googled it. Now find an abortion clinic in Mississippi.

[Hekate]

22. Last one shut down in 2022, not that some people will believe that

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/07/1110289142/mississippi-abortion-clinic-shuts-down

Mississippi's last abortion clinic — and the one at the center of the Supreme Court case used to overturn Roe v. Wade — shut its doors for the last time.

Earlier this week, the Jackson Women's Health Organization lost their bid to temporarily block the state's trigger law that bans most abortions from going into effect. Now, they are packing up and moving out, Diane Derzis who owned the clinic said.

They served the last crowd of patients on Wednesday. The patients are "devastated" by the clinic's closure, said Derzis who spoke to NPR's Morning Edition.

"And you would be surprised at how many have no idea that this bill has passed and that abortion is now illegal in Jackson, as well as other states surrounding. So lots of anger," she said of the response.

[yardwork]

24. Thank you.

[Loryn]

9. This is an abomination.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. This happened during Roe, too. A lot.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. It also happens in places like Minnesota. We still don't have abortion access right.