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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023

The First “Wrongful Death” Case For Helping a Friend Get an Abortion

Author:     Mary Tuma
Source:     The Intercept
Publication Date:     April 26 2023 | 10:41 a.m.
 Link: The First “Wrongful Death” Case For Helping a Friend Get an Abortion
Stephan:  

The obsession of the MAGAt Republicans about controlling women has reached a level of nastiness I honestly didn’t imagine possible. They now want to arrest and imprison any friend or family member who drives a woman to a Blue state where she can get the healthcare she needs but cannot get in her MAGAt controlled Red State. That is the government intruding into a woman’s life in a manner I would have thought was unacceptable even to Republicans. Here is what I am talking about. Frankly, I wouldn’t live in a Red state, and I suspect others will increasingly feel the same.

Demonstrators during a national walk out in support of abortion rights at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, May 5, 2022. For decades the fight to end abortion in America has been waged over Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court poised to overturn the landmark decision that legalized a womans right to choose, the fight to stop abortion is going to become a fight about a pill. Photographer: Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images“Your help means the world to me,” a grateful Brittni Silva texted her best friends, Jackie Noyola and Amy Carpenter, last July. “I’m so lucky to have y’all. Really.”

A month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Houston mother of two experienced an unplanned pregnancy with her now ex-husband and allegedly sought abortion care with the help of her friends. For nearly a year, Texas had imposed a six-week abortion ban, and a full “trigger” ban would be enacted in just a few weeks. Silva needed to act fast and extricate herself from what appeared to be an emotionally unhealthy relationship with a husband she would go on to divorce in February. Her friends offered their unwavering support.

“I […]

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