A woman who drove a 13-year-old girl impregnated by her stepson across state lines to avoid Pennsylvania's abortion law faces charges in a case called an historic challenge to reproductive freedom.
"Nowhere else in the nation has a prosecution occurred when an individual has assisted a woman to exercise her constitutional rights," said lawyer Kathryn Kolbert of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy in New York.But the local prosecutor says the trial - jury selection was to start Monday - has more to do with parental rights than abortion.
"It's kind of the old saying," Sullivan County District Attorney Max Little said. "It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"