“Planned Parenthood”: a fitting name for an organization, which has long offered non-judgmental reproductive health care regardless of income and circumstance. When my college aged daughter found herself with distressing symptoms, and a doctor’s visit required a two-week delay, she turned to Planned Parenthood to promptly deal with an infection.
Back in my day, when a housemate found herself pregnant after a one-time date and rape, she spent her college tuition plus donations from roommates to travel to California for a safe abortion rather than resort to a risky back-alley abortion.
Abortions were illegal here in Minnesota, a time before women were granted reproductive liberty. Few would have the resources to travel out-of-state/country for a safe solution.
Do not take freedom for granted, as there are some who strive with a cult-like fervor to reverse current liberty, to abolish reproductive choice and replace it with only their chosen view. It would hinder or deny choice, would encourage or coerce a girl/woman to carry all pregnancies to full term regardless of life circumstance or her chosen plan.
Liberty is at risk for girls/women.
Geri Jensen
Grand Marais
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