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In reply to the discussion: Pennsylvania Mother Who Gave Daughter Abortion Pill Gets Prison - Reuters/HuffPo [View all]Feral Child
(2,086 posts)"Europe is just so much behind us in their medical care" from my post? I can only wish someday we'll have comparable care, but that hope is forlorn; our medical industry is too profit-motivated to ever grant us effective care.
I was responding to your statement, "And, Europe isn't known for selling dangerous drugs without prescriptions." Unless I missed an attempt at sarcasm, the post IS naive. You can buy many dangerous pharmaceuticals from internet companies based in Europe, including our British colony.
The drug is not "illegal" in PA, anymore than morphine is; it's merely regulated and she illegally circumvented those regulations.
Her daughter would have been better served had she invested her research time looking for legal avenues. This isn't the desert southwest or the Deep South. No place on the eastern seaboard is unreachable from elsewhere in the region. Mass transit is readily available between major cities, with stops in the suburban/exurban areas.
I apologize if my comment offended you, I wasn't trying to pick a fight. I'm sure many of our members aren't very aware of the intricate "underground" aspects of the internet and you're post sounded, from my perspective, to be unaware of the networks that exist.
Again, I think the abortion aspect of this case is incidental, the woman was charged with practicing medicine w/o a license, not with having assisted her daughter with an abortion. Had she done so without breaking the law, she wouldn't have been charged.