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.
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.