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In reply to the discussion: Pennsylvania Mother Who Gave Daughter Abortion Pill Gets Prison - Reuters/HuffPo [View all]Feral Child
(2,086 posts)Those that are arguing with you are allowing their dedication and the purity of their purpose to cloud their thinking.
This woman, despite whatever intentions she had, acted in a criminally irresponsible fashion. She put her daughter's life at risk.
I wish we had universal health-care.
I wish she had unrestricted access to affordable medical services. She didn't.
She made a choice and acted on it. I'm pretty certain that had she spent the resources in researching PP Clinics that she expended on finding these drugs on the underground she wouldn't be facing the problems she has now.
Again, the sentence is much too harsh, but the illegality and irresponsibility of her actions are beyond question.
Before anyone jumps me, please understand that I'm a committed supporter of women's reproductive rights. I'm aware that abortion rights are under attack and the future appears dire. My wife had a tubal ligation in her early thirties and I had a vasectomy (provided by Planned Parenthood) in my late twenties. We are a childless couple and happily so.
I contribute to PP and the ACLU.
I just don't believe that the defendant exhausted all legal recourse before breaking a sensible law: we need to remember that the law she broke has nothing to do with abortion, but rather concerns establishing acceptable regulations for medical practice.