Posted on 03/23/2005 10:01:06 AM PST by stylin_geek
For legal reasons, the names of the family and the 14-year old girl that are the subject of this story have been withheld at this time.
GRANITE CITY - A Sothern Illinois woman was arrested last week (March 17) after trying to intervene on behalf of her 14-year old daughter's effort to have an abortion. The girl was allegedly taken to an abortion clinic by the mother of the man allegedly to have impregnated the 14-year old.
According to the girl's mother, her 14-year old daughter was called off from school in Madison County by a woman posing as the girl's “grandmother.” The woman took the girl from her home only minutes before the girl’s mother returned home from work.
It was later determined that the woman who had posed as the "grandmother" to the school authorities was the mother of the male who had fathered the unborn child the 14-year old girl was carrying. The age of the male has not been released.
When the parents were notified their pregnant daughter was not at school, they suspected she had been taken to the Hope Abortion Clinic in Granite City. The parents and grandfather were the only persons authorized to request school absence for the fourteen year old female.
“My husband and I rushed to the abortion clinic where we saw our daughter’s name on the roster and the time she had checked in,” the mother said. She then went into the clinic and searched a room filled with young women awaiting abortions but did not see her daughter.
She took a seat near the main desk and said, “I was told I could not prove my daughter was there so I began calling her name. A medical tech at the clinic told me , ‘It’s your daughter’s rights, it’s her body. You have no rights.’”
After continuing to call out her daughter’s name and telling her “don’t do it,” authorities were called and the mother was arrested.
The 14-year old told her mother she could hear her but when she asked employees to give her mother a message, they came back to the room and told her that her mother had left.
Angela Michaels, of Small Victories Ministry, was tipped off as to what was happending at the Hope clinic. According to Michaels, she witnessed police placing the mother’s hands behind her back, taking her into custody. As the police were putting the mother in the squad car, she was crying out, “Please, please, help me...my daughter is in there.”
Michaels said, “Exactly one hour later at 10:35 a.m., the 14-year old emerged from the clinic looking disheveled. The 14-year old told us that employees kept her in a quiet room until the procedure was performed and she was told that her mother had left.”
Employees assured this girl on her departure, “No-one will ever know you were here, we’ll bury your records.”
In the meantime, the woman who had taken the girl for the abortion was slipped out the back door of the clinic.
The police in the community in which the family lives allegedly told the girl's mom that they couldn't intervene despite her making a charge that her daughter had been raped (by statute) because the charge was stale--7 weeks after the incident. They did tell the girl's mom that, while she had no right to stop the abortion, she did have a right to go into the clinic and speak to her daughter.
The parents are expected to file charges.
...read.
Access to death seems to be unfettered. That same access to life is not unless one is perfectly healthy and of age.
sick sick sick....
The woman that took her to the clinic needs to be arrested. Now.
Shocking but not surprising. Welcome to the nation of death.
This is so outrageous. I can't imagine if that was my daughter what I would have done.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
14? Isn't it obvious that she is a minor? Wow.
This is so very wrong.
Abhorrent is more like it. They have it all backwards; momentarily forgetting that abortion should be illegal anyways, the mother had every right to take her 14 year old daughter out of there and have the poser arrested and files charged against the clinic for their deception.
Satan is unleashed.
Shocking? I don't know why. Hey, this is the country where we starve people to death while their mothers cry in horror outside their rooms. It's because we have "rights," you know. Just ask a judge.
Unfortunately it's not shocking. It's perfectly in line with what I would expect from those people.
I am speechless...
Since when can any child undergo any surgical procedure without a parent's notification? You can't even get your ears pierced under the age of 18!
Yeah - isn't there a kidnapping charge somewhere in this?
Culture of Death
My heart breaks over where we are and where we are headed. This poor mother...I pray that the woman and school are held responsible for this illegal activity.
Dear Lord they are blind to the TRUTH!
As a father and gradnfather, I would have forcibly removed her, entering every room if necesary until finding her...and damn the consequences to hell. This is type of thing is beyond the pale and will lead to civil insurrection...or it should IMHO.
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