Roe v. Wade
A 10-year-old rape victim had to travel out of state for an abortion. Why is this our country?
This is a tragedy we will, unfortunately, see again and again on the national stage as trigger laws and pre-Roe bans go into effect across the country.
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We told you.
We told you this would happen if Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Conservatives pushed through their ideological agendas anyway, and now, here we are watching a child rape victim travel from Ohio to Indiana for an abortion, while her story is questioned for political points by right-wing media pundits and politicians.
When I sat down to write a column about this 10-year-old rape victim having to travel across state lines for an emergency abortion, I had just dropped my 6- and 4-year-old daughters off at summer school.
And I felt numb.