Delay, Delay, Delay: Restrictive Laws Force Later-Term Abortions
(WorldNews Argentina)

Many were horrified by news accounts of an 11-year-old girl in Argentina who, 23 weeks pregnant, underwent a procedure like a C-section rather than the abortion she had sought weeks earlier. The girl had been raped by the boyfriend of her grandmother, with whom the girl had been living. In language that will be hard to forget, she wanted doctors “to remove what the old man put inside me.” Lucia (a pseudonym) was placed in state care a week after her pregnancy was discovered because “self-inflicted lesions” indicated suicide attempts. Argentina law allows abortions in the case of rape or to protect the life of a pregnant person. In the U.S., Lucia might still have been...