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 HARRISBURG Pa. A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to up to 18 months in prison for obtaining so-called abortion pills online and providing them to her teenage daughter to end her pregnancy. 
 
 Jennifer Ann Whalen, 39, of Washingtonville, a single mother who works as a nursing home aide, pleaded guilty in August to obtaining the miscarriage-inducing pills from an online site in Europe for her daughter, 16, who did not want to have the child. 
 
 Whalen was sentenced on Friday by Montour County Court of Common Pleas Judge Gary Norton to serve 12 months to 18 months in prison for violating a state law that requires abortions to be performed by physicians. 
 
 She was also fined $1,000 and ordered to perform 40 hours of community service after her release. The felony offense called for up to seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine. 
 
 Matthew Bingham Banks, Whalen's lawyer, previously told Reuters criminal prosecutions of this kind were not common. 
 
 Whalen told authorities there was no local clinic available to perform an abortion and her daughter did not have health insurance to cover a hospital abortion, the Press Enterprise newspaper of Bloomsburg reported. 
 
 Her daughter experienced severe cramping and bleeding after taking the pills and Whalen took her to a hospital hear her home for treatment, the newspaper said. 
 
 The closest abortion clinic to Whalen's home is about 74 miles away in Harrisburg. 
 
 The Pennsylvania case follows the prosecution of a Florida man who pleaded guilty to tricking his girlfriend into taking an abortion pill. He was sentenced in January to 13 years in prison and $28,500 restitution. In June, Florida toughened state law to allow for prosecutions in the death of non-viable fetuses. 
 
 (Reporting by David DeKok; Editing by David Bailey and Rosalind Russell)
– A Pennsylvania mom who helped her 16-year-old daughter end an unwanted pregnancy is going to spend up to 18 months behind bars. Single mother Jennifer Ann Whalen, 39, was sentenced Friday to between 12 and 18 months under a state law that says only doctors can carry out abortions, reports Reuters. Whalen obtained miscarriage-inducing "abortion pills" online from a company in Europe, and she took her daughter to the hospital when she suffered pain and bleeding after taking the pills. She pleaded guilty last month. Whalen, who lives in a small town 74 miles away from the nearest abortion clinic in Harrisburg, told investigators that there was no nearby clinic that could have performed the abortion and that her daughter didn't have insurance to cover an abortion in a hospital, reports the Press Enterprise. She was also fined $1,000 and ordered to do 40 hours of community service after her release. The Pennsylvania law could have resulted in penalties of up to seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine, according to Reuters. (A Dutch physician and activist grants requests from around the world for drugs for "stay-at-home abortions"—but she won't ship to the US.)