Ms. Hairston, 27, counseled women who wanted abortions and checked up on those carrying to term.
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"Abortion at 20 weeks is 35 times more dangerous to a woman than carrying to term," he said.
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Carrying to term a pregnancy against one's will is punishment enough — in fact, it can amount to torture, according to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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But according to the CDC, around 12% of American women between the ages of 15 and 44 years have difficulties getting pregnant or carrying to term.
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Carrying to term could mean a stillbirth, or a short, painful life for the child, and so sometimes late-term abortions are seen as the more compassionate option.
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The data from the centralized spreadsheet was then used to restrict the girls' access to abortion care or coerce them into carrying to term, as VICE News reported exclusively in February 2018.
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"This is a pregnancy I'm carrying to term and that's because I'm in a good place right now and it's time for me to have the family that I planned a long, long time ago, years and years ago and that wouldn't have been possible without Planned Parenthood actually," she said.
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Sure that this will solve all of their problems, Kelly persuades his uncle to do the same to him – only to find that carrying to term will be more difficult than he thought.
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Bell reportedly considered having an abortion in Kentucky, carrying to term and placing the baby for adoption, or running away to California. On a Saturday night in September 1988, Bell left her house, telling her parents that she was going to a party. She came home ill, disheveled, and in tears. Her illness worsened over the next few days but she would not seek medical attention.
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She visits her doctor to see if she can conceive again, but is told that the chances of her carrying to term are quite low due to her miscarriage. Later in the day, Cun Xi asks Xin Yi to marry him but she declines, knowing how much Cun Xi's grandmother wants an heir for the Ji family’s tenth generation. Sadly she chooses to tell Cun Xi that she wants a relationship with Dylan because she finds him more suitable. With the persuasion of Cun Xi and the support of both their families, she finally relents and a formal wedding is held.
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There she was told that state law required consent from her parents for the procedure and that most minors in her area simply went to Louisville, less than 100 miles away, to avoid parental disclosure. She also had the option of going before a judge to argue for a waiver of parental consent, but reportedly feared that her parents would find out. Bell was subsequently confused about what to do, according to Clark, alternating between plans to have an abortion in Kentucky, carrying to term and placing the baby for adoption, or running away to California. On a Saturday night in September 1988, Bell left her house, telling her parents that she was going to a party.
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