A child in Ohio missed the deadline to get an abortion and had to travel to another state to get the procedure.
According to the Indianapolis Star, a doctor in Ohio called a colleague in Indiana to ask for help with a patient who was six weeks and three days pregnant. She would have to give birth in her home state if that's what it takes.
Clinics that provide reproductive healthcare, including abortion services, are shutting down across the country, causing patients to take expensive trips that could result in legal repercussions when they return to home states where abortion is still allowed.
If Ohio's state right is to force an abused child to give dangerous birth, the least we can do is face the truth about what it looks like for a 10-year old.
Doctors were appalled when a 10-year-old child was forced to give birth because her tribe wouldn't press charges against her abusive father.
She was killed by it.
The baby was cut from the mother's small womb in a procedure that is typically done while the patient is numb, but conscious, according to a Live Science report.
Lewis Wall told the pub that any 10-year-old who is pregnant has already been abused. It probably should not be said. Nutrition from the mother will be taken by the placenta. The younger you are the more trauma you will experience.
You can decide what a small body decimated by this kind of forced birth looks like, and what that will mean for her physical and mental wellbeing for the rest of her life.
People are stockingpiling abortion pills and emergency contraceptives after the law was changed.