Monday, September 08, 2014

It Was Only a Matter of Time

A woman in Pennsylvania obtained an abortion pill for her daughter, who was sixteen and had decided she didn't want to carry the fetus to term.

Whalen told authorities there was no local clinic available to perform an abortion and her daughter did not have health insurance to cover a hospital abortion, the Press Enterprise newspaper of Bloomsburg reported.

For this crime, the mother has been sentenced to 12-18 months in jail

Two points. First the most obvious, women are going to seek out and obtain abortions legal or otherwise. It was true before Roe, going all the way back to Biblical times, and it will be true even if you manage to completely overturn Roe. Second, the reporter presents a boyfriend tricking his girlfriend into taking an abortifacient as somehow equivalent to a mother following her daughter's choice. Psst, they are not.