AP: Women seek abortions out of state amid restrictions

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ATLANTA (AP) — At a routine ultrasound when she was five months pregnant, Hevan Lunsford began to panic when the technician took longer than normal, then told her she would need to see a specialist.

Lunsford, a nurse in Alabama, knew it was serious and begged for an appointment the next day.

That’s when the doctor gave her and her husband the heart-wrenching news: The baby boy they decided to name Sebastian was severely underdeveloped and had only half a heart. If he survived, he would need care to ease his pain and several surgeries. He may not live long.

Lunsford, devastated, asked the doctor about ending the pregnancy.

“I felt the only way to guarantee that he would not have any suffering was to go through with the abortion,” she said of that painful decision nearly three years ago.

But the doctor said Alabama law prohibits abortions after five months. He handed Lunsford a piece of paper with information for a clinic in Atlanta, a roughly 180-mile (290-kilometer) drive east.

Lunsford is one of thousands of women in the U.S. who have crossed state lines for an abortion in recent years as states have passed ever stricter laws and as the number of clinics has declined.

Although abortion opponents say the laws are intended to reduce abortions and not send people to other states, at least 276,000 women terminated their pregnancies outside their home state between 2012 and 2017, according to an Associated Press analysis of data collected from state reports and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.apnews.com/4ced42150e3348328296e28559c2143b

[Ohiogal]

1. This is a legal procedure

and it just makes me livid how the right wing keeps finding ways to choke off access to it.

I wonder how gun enthusiasts would like it if the “libruls” closed down every gun store in a state except for one or two .... made every potential purchaser pass a psychiatric exam before buying... plus made every potential buyer watch a video of human beings with their body parts blasted off...then make them wait two weeks before they can make their purchase so they can “think it over.”

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. We KNOW how they'd react to that.

I think that somebody I heard said it best that, in this country we have "Health Control and Gun Care". :-/

[aka-chmeee]

3. I wonder how long before they require Health Care Providers to notify the state of a pregnancy

so they can try to obtain some kind of protection order to prevent travel.