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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s NPR on another example

That was true for Beth Vial, a college student from Portland, Ore., who didn't learn she was pregnant until she was about 26 weeks along, in the summer of 2017. "I just [burst] out crying. I didn't believe them because I was told that wasn't a possibility for me," she said.

…Doctors in Portland told her she was too far along for an abortion there.

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"I was already having a tough time in my life in a lot of other ways and it just felt like one more thing I really couldn't bear, or provide for, and I was panicked, I guess," Vial said.

Vial found a clinic in New Mexico that told her they would end her pregnancy up until 28 weeks — the beginning of the third trimester.

She scrambled, with the help of family, friends and a nonprofit that helps women pay for abortions, to pull together the fee of more than $10,000.

"[There were] a lot of people telling me how they felt about my situation without me asking — friends, family, strangers," Vial said. "I mean, you tell someone that you're seven months pregnant and having an abortion, they've got some things to say."[/quote

So do you think someone like her should be exempt from any restrictions on abortion? Because she didn't know she was pregnant and was having a hard life? Guess what, people go through hard times. Sometimes life feels unfair. How a woman gets to 27 weeks of pregnancy and doesn't know is a mystery, but still, it doesn't mean that killing that baby--which is at that point--is the answer. There's adoption among other solutions. She doesn't just get to have an abortion because her life is hard.[/quote]

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