{"id":185679,"date":"2014-09-08T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/08\/welcome-to-the-handmaidens-tale-2\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T00:24:00","slug":"welcome-to-the-handmaidens-tale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/08\/welcome-to-the-handmaidens-tale-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Handmaiden&#8217;s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/09\/06\/pennsylvania-mother-who-gave-daughter-abortion-pill-gets-prison\/\">throwing mothers in jail for getting their daughters an abortion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to up to 18 months in prison for obtaining so-called abortion pills online and providing them to her teenage daughter to end her pregnancy.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Jennifer Ann Whalen, 39, of Washingtonville, a single mother who works as a nursing home aide, pleaded guilty in August to obtaining the miscarriage-inducing pills from an online site in Europe for her daughter, 16, who did not want to have the child.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Whalen was sentenced on Friday by Montour County Court of Common Pleas Judge Gary Norton to serve 12 months to 18 months in prison for violating a state law that requires abortions to be performed by physicians.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Matthew Bingham Banks, Whalen\u2019s lawyer, previously told Reuters criminal prosecutions of this kind were not common.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Whalen told authorities there was no local clinic available to perform an abortion and her daughter did not have health insurance to cover a hospital abortion, the Press Enterprise newspaper of Bloomsburg reported.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Her daughter experienced severe cramping and bleeding after taking the pills and Whalen took her to a hospital hear her home for treatment, the newspaper said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The closest abortion clinic to Whalen\u2019s home is about 74 miles away in Harrisburg.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The right wing woman haters are chuckling about this right.<\/p>\n<p>First, they make it impossible to get a abortion by legal means, and they they start prosecuting when desperate women do desperate things.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the way of the ISIS of the American body politic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now throwing mothers in jail for getting their daughters an abortion: A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to up to 18 months in prison for obtaining so-called abortion pills online and providing them to her teenage daughter to end her pregnancy.Jennifer Ann Whalen, 39, of Washingtonville, a single mother who works as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,969,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-evil","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}