TIME: She Wasn’t Able to Get an Abortion. Now She’s a Mom. Soon She’ll Start 7th Grade.

4 thoughts on “TIME: She Wasn’t Able to Get an Abortion. Now She’s a Mom. Soon She’ll Start 7th Grade.”

1. I didn’t read the entire heart-breaking story … but I have no doubt similar stories are being repeated again and again in the no-abortion states.

   There is simply no way for me to describe the anger, disgust … RAGE! … that I feel towards the IDIOTS (male AND female) that have put these no-abortion laws into effect. Their uncaring and heartlessness is simply mind-boggling. And that goes for private citizens who support the law as well!

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   1. Hey Nan. I share your rage at this. I also read the story in parts, I was so upset. A child has been forced to have a child with all that means, but to have to try to be a mother with all that means while a child yourself. That is insane. to see how the law hits lower income there is this quote. Notice the death rate from carrying a child / giving birth, again something that hits the lower incomes the most. As for the heart wrench parts of the story about the child’s rape and the issues of the police not even caring to solve the crime or find the rapist I still struggle to deal with that part. If I as an adult can not deal with this, think how much harder it is for a 13 yr old child. Hugs

      Balthrop told Regina that the closest abortion provider for Ashley would be in Chicago. At first, Regina thought she and Ashley could drive there. But it’s a nine-hour trip, and Regina would have to take off work. She’d have to pay for gas, food, and a place to stay for a couple of nights, not to mention the cost of the abortion itself. “I don’t have the funds for all this,” she says. So Ashley did what girls with no other options do: she did nothing.

      The people who live in the Delta are overwhelmingly Black. The poverty rate is high. The region is an epicenter of America’s ongoing Black maternal-health crisis. Mississippi has the second-highest maternal-mortality rate in the country, with 43 deaths per 100,00 live births, and the Delta has among the worst maternal-healthcare outcomes in the state. Black women in Mississippi are four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications as white women.

      And so Dobbs has compounded America’s maternal-health crisis: more women are delivering more babies, in areas where there are already not enough doctors to care for them, while abortion bans are making it more difficult to recruit qualified providers to the regions that need them most.

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      1. Among the more disgusting things about the fact that “certain people” look down on, criticize, and revile black people is the simple fact that black people CAN’T be any more than they are because those “certain people” take away (or make it beyond reach) every advantage and/or benefit that could help them.

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         1. Well said Nan. The weird thing is the abortion bans hit the poor the most / hardest. These same republican racists that pushed the abortion bans are always talking about how the US is changing it culture, that the “others” are bringing their non-white culture and the “European white culture” is disappearing from the US. They are so terrified of it they are demanding 10 or 12 year old girls have babies. But they seem to forget they made black people poor by design and so they will also be having more babies also. Hugs

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