You've selectively quoted from the article. The full passage follows: ===== At one point a US border official asked Gourley, who was wearing a loose-fitting d

You've selectively quoted from the article. The full passage follows: ===== At one point a US border official asked Gourley, who was wearing a loose-fitting dress, whether she was pregnant. The same question was repeated as she was moved between rooms. When she again told the US officials she was not pregnant, Gourley was asked whether she had had an abortion. “She was walking me from one room to the next, and she asked the pregnancy question again,” Gourley told Guardian Australia. “I don’t know if she had forgotten, or she wanted to work out if I was lying or something. “I said no, and she looked at me again and said, ‘Have you recently had an abortion?’ ===== Unless Gourley is directly lying, she herself (not the journalist) has stated quite unequivocally that the she was asked 'Have you recently had an abortion?', following on from being asked twice about whether she was pregnant. In addition to selectively quoting, you've assumed motivation on behalf of the CBP person asking the question - that the purpose of the pregnancy question was related to concern about Gourley's medical condition. However the fact of the "pregnancy question" also comes from Gourley, which you're accepting was asked. Did she then make up the "abortion question"? You seem to be trying to have it both ways. That the pregnancy question (as reported by Gourley herself) happened but was merely out of concern, and that the abortion question (also as reported by Gourley herself) did not.