From https://www.themarshallproject.org/ > The Marshall Project:
Paige sat in the nurses’ station at the Winnebago County Jail in shock. Her pregnancy test had just come back positive. Paige, who asked that her last name not be used in this story, did not want to have a baby.
In 2021, she was awaiting trial in Illinois for drug charges that could bring possible prison time, and was already worried about what would happen to her four kids at home. The pregnancy would be high-risk. She’d had three cesarean sections before, and doctors told her that her scar tissue from a recent surgery had attached to the placenta. She didn’t believe the county would provide the quality medical treatment she needed.
“My own life was at stake at that point,” she said.
Paige said she used the jail’s electronic messaging system to send a medical request for an appointment to get an abortion. But the response she got back was so baffling, she said, she almost had to laugh. It consisted of a sad-face emoticon, like this: :( Continue reading >>>
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