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 girls 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 daughters 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 , Its your daughters rights, its her body. You have no rights.
After continuing to call out her daughters name and telling her dont 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 mothers 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, well 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.
Me thinks the state and it's centurians, politicians, and judges get a certain twisted enthusiasm or high off of the idea that they can kill people in a bureaucratic way, of which no one entity is culpable but it's the "system". The "system" is worshiped to a higher status than personal conviction, religious faith, or general moral beliefs by employees of the state. A certain comfort is felt by them because it boosts the notion that they are in control, enriched with power, and something other than common. It's a really scary phenomenon and I think it's prevalance is proportionate to a populus who has the nerve to question the state's mandate. Think about it lately. Think long and hard.
Jeez, I hope you're not anybody's mom.
So apparently if you are helpless and being fed through a tube, it's open season.
Possibly.
But she doesn't show up for school and the parents immediately suspect she had been taken to the Hope Abortion Clinic in Granite City?
Why there? Why not the mall? Her friends house? The bowling alley? The pizza parlor?
And why did they think "taken"? Couldn't she have gone herself? Hopped a bus? Asked a friend?
...Wouldn't they have to destroy the 14 year-old girl to really destroy the evidence...
I'm not certain they didn't destroy her.
If there was a willingness to see justice, they could certainly still make a case, yet I doubt they are interested. The clinic worker spoke the truth when she told the mother, "you have no rights."
See my post #142. We're in complete agreement.
No name? The girl's old enough to have sex and get an abortion, but not old enough to be held accountable for it?
At the very least, she should be having social security deducted from her allowance.
America is dying, faster and a little more each day.
E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come,
And Night shall be no more.
They need no light, nor lamp, nor sun.
For Christ shall be their all.
Rejoice in Heaven, all ye that dwell therein.
Rejoice on Earth, ye Saints below.
For Christ is coming; is coming soon;
For Christ is coming soon.
I seldom get angry. I have never, NEVER, been more angered by anything I have read on the internet than this story.
I need to go there.
Howard Dean was on the board of Vermont Planned Parenthood. He says he never performed an abortion, but he sure made tradgedies like this possible. In fact he is a "little Eichman" for making the unborn haulocaust possible.
More and more I am hearing about females, especially young girls, being forced or pressured into an abortion by the boyfriend/father of the child. This is especially common in abusive relationships or in a relationship where the girl is a minor and the child would be evidence of statutory rape. Choice is a joke. The young girl has no choice.
God help us!
The father of the child should be arrested for statutory rape, his mother should be arrested for lying to school officials.
In the prophetic words of Thomas Jefferson, "Indeed I fear for my country when I reflect that God is just."
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