Boebert praises high rural teen birth rates while announcing first grandchild

[Abolishinist]

14. Or, if you were well off and well connected, you could ship

your daughter off to another state for an illegal abortion.

In 1956 Joanne, Barry & Margaret (Peggy) Goldwater's eldest daughter, became pregnant while still in college at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. In a later interview, Goldwater's daughter described how she was not ready to become a mother at the age of twenty and instead chose to have an abortion. At the time, abortions were federally illegal.

However, due to their financial security and political connections, Goldwater and his wife arranged for an illegal abortion for their daughter in Virginia. Peggy Goldwater supported her daughter's decision to have an abortion and helped her throughout the process. She continued her support for abortion and reproductive rights throughout her life.