Anti-choice politicians are overwhelmingly against informative and scientifically accurate sex ed, affordable birth control access, and hey, while we're at it, expansion of affordable mental health services via the ACA. Tennessee, for example, has rejected the medicaid expansion, which would have brought in billions of dollars of funding and probably insured upwards of 250,000 more people.
Tennessee sex ed is a total shit show. It's only required in counties where the teen pregnancy rate is particularly high, and teachers are hampered in being honest about anything because they can be punished if they're considered to be promoting "gateway" sexual activity.
In Tennessee, it's harder for poor people to get contraception, healthcare, or mental healthcare due to the lack of medicaid expansion. We don't know when she found out she was pregnant.
96% of counties in the state have no abortion clinic.
To get an abortion in Tennessee, you have to receive mandatory counseling and then wait 48 hours--necessitating two trips, two days off work, two days you need a sitter, etc.. Telemedicine is forbidden, to make the travel and waiting period as onerous as it possibly can be. Public funding is banned, except for rape, incest, or the life of the mother. In many of the states surrounding Tennessee, you can't even buy private insurance that covers abortion unless you purchase a special rider.
And no clinics in the state perform abortions after 16 weeks anyway. So even if she had known she was pregnant and been able to act weeks earlier, she still would have had to scrape together the money to go out of state. So we're talking about driving a couple hundred miles or buying a plane ticket--on top of the medical expenses that the government is striving to make as onerous as possible.
And where to, exactly? Kentucky literally has one remaining full-time abortion clinic (and it's been the victim of repeated vandalization in the last two months), and you have to pay in cash or check, so good luck if you're poor. It's 200 miles from Nashville. The other states nearby are hardly better.
No, this is exactly what happens when anti-choicers try to nickle-and-dime women out of reproductive rights.