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.
Still kidnapping.
Great seal! Describes the Democrats to the tee!
To me this sounds like a murder case.
Abortion is the exception in many cases. Really. Here in Massachusetts, children need parental permission for ear piercings, but not abortions.
I wonder if Illinois is one of the states that holds parents criminally liable for their children's truancy.
You and me both.
Reminds me of all those Rome specials I'been watching on the Hitler Channel lately.
Sounds like a lot of laws were broken by the "pro-choice" crowd.
Oh, great, just knock the wind out of my righteous indignation!
Thanks for the update, seriously.
I think it's been more of a Crock Pot of death. It's been simmering for a couple decades. And now soup's on.
Where is the evidence that she was raped (statutory) seven weeks ago by a particular John Doe?
No semen, no stains, no vaginal trauma, no baby, no DNA, no police report.
To satisfy you, I suppose she could pick some poor schmuck, say he did it, and that guy could go to jail for 20 years, but where's the fun in that?
Don't forget the girls' mothers. I used to do Saturday sidewalk vigils, and most often the girls were deathscorted in by either their boy-enemies or mothers. The stats back this up. Imagine living with the knowledge that your mother wanted your baby dead.
Amen!
I know you and I would have plowed them right over!
I am so darn mad that I could scream!
There had to be some sort of indication that this could happen. A diary missive, an overheard phone conversation, maybe a threat by the daughter - "if you don't let me get one, I'll find a way..."
Who knows at this point?
Don't be shocked. This was being arranged in the public school system 30 years ago - abortion referral without the knowledge or consent of the parents. There must be many more than this case, perhaps not so blatant.
Does the age shock anyone? About 10 years ago when I was doing pro-life counseling, I asked a Caucasian girl (about 15) how many girls in her upper class suburban school were facing a pregnancy crisis from time to time. She said most of them.
That was before the Golden Age of Clinton. Things are much worse now. I have been sickened over this for 30 years. Reagan was the only one who took any steps to change this.
"Work makes free"?
Mmmmm-kay.
That's nice but, I'm left wondering how it's relevant. Maybe I need a nap.
Statute of limitations on statutory rape in Illinois runs after 7 weeks !?
It's sadly going to hell and in a flaming hurry! Sort of. I do think people are waking up to the problems that are present and are prepared to do something about it, so some good is emerging from it.
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