On Sept. 12th, Jennifer Whalen, a 39-year-old mother of three in the rural town of Washingtonville, Pa., went to jail to begin serving a 9-to-18-month sentence. Whalen’s crime was, in effect, ordering pills online that her older daughter took in the first several weeks of an unplanned pregnancy, when she was 16, to induce a miscarriage. The medication was a combination of mifepristone (formerly called RU-486) and misoprostol. The drugs have been available from a doctor with a prescription in the United States since 2000 and are used around the world to induce miscarriage.Read more in the NYT. Thanks, Cassie
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
A Mother in Jail for Helping Her Daughter Have an Abortion
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"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .