Woman Convicted in Minor’s Abortion

A woman who drove a 13-year-old girl across state lines to avoid Pennsylvania’s tough abortion laws was convicted on a charge that could put her in jail for seven years. The prosecutor rejected the claim by abortion rights activists that the case was a historic challenge to the rights of women. A jury found Rosa Hartford guilty of interfering with the custody of a minor when she drove the teen, who had been impregnated by her stepson, to an abortion clinic in New York, where abortion laws are less restrictive. Hartford would not have been arrested if the girl had been 14, the limit of the state custody law.