Opponents decry 12-year-old AL rape victim's abortion waiver

WSFA ^ | July 19, 2017 | WSFA 12 News Staff

[Morgana]

Two opponents of a 12-year-old Alabama girl's decision to have an abortion after she was raped by a relative spoke out Wednesday during a news conference in Montgomery.

Win Johnson, former Legal Director for the Administrative Office of Courts under Chief Justice Roy Moore, and Lorie Mullins, Executive Director of COPE Pregnancy Center, who has counseled post-abortive women, spoke regarding the court's decision.

On Wednesday, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals granted the unidentified child's petition to have an abortion without parental consent, a decision that bypasses Alabama's Parental Consent law.

"There are two victims of this decision by the Court of Civil Appeals," Johnson said. "The unborn child and the 12-year-old mother."

Johnson went on, "In essence, what the courts are saying to this young girl is this: 'We, the courts of Alabama, consider you mature enough to decide to murder your own unborn child.'"

[Sequoyah101]

Oh my! You are going to die and go straight to hell.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Staff at Pregnancy Aid-type centers run into these kinds of situations with young girls. You want to hear some stories, whooh!

Saddest to me is when the girl goes through with the abortion, thus-— she knows -— gaining the approval of every single adult in her life, and then within the year, there she is with a replacement pregnancy. Which she conceals with baggy pants and big shirts until she is -— she hopes —— too far along to be “nudged” or “steered” into snuffing the baby. It’s like she’s trying to expiate for the first one.

Lord have mercy.

[lee martell]

This rarely comes up into the public conversation. How does the mother of a ‘stopped pregnancy REALLY feel about what just happened to her, to her baby?”
It’s a very real need that should be learned about and validated. How could I have completely overlooked such a need? Like most adults, I just presumed the girl who had been ‘saved’ from having an unwanted baby would be as pleased about it as her advisers said they were.

Now, in cases of extreme deformity or a direct threat to the life of the mother, that is a very different story.
But most the time, we are not talking about that scenario.

[Mrs. Don-o]

So often if there is "extreme deformity" the anomalies are incompatible with life, and the baby either dies in-utero (miscarriage) or is born dead. This is dreadfully, terribly sad, but sadder than this is an abortion: because with abortion there is the added burden of guilt: "I killed him."

Natural, spontaneous death hurts, but it's a clean and honest hurt, different from the pangs of conscience which can re-emerge throughout a lifetime.

Small deformities are often not diagnosed, or even fully discovered until after birth. You can't always tell from a scan whether a baby has something readily remediable (like a cleft lip/palate, a malformed outer ear, a club foot) or whether there are latent, more serious issues.

In any case, *newborns* of any race or condition are still the adoption "Gold Standard." There are waiting lists to adopt even Downs babies

Check this out, just two minutes, Best 2 minutes you'll spend today.

Have a good one!

[lee martell]

Thank you for that video. I know people just like them speaking. It warms the heart to see them thrive and manage the bad days. That was my gift of the day.