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.
Now that would be interesting.
The kidnapper put on trial for aiding and abetting, while the abortion workers are put on trial for the murder.
If the DA has the stones to bring such charges.
Such a case would twist the abortion rights activists into knots.
They cannot have it both ways. If the girl didn't want the procedure, then the abortionists are guilty of murdering her baby.
If the left tries to claim the girl is not old enough to make such a decision without a legal guardian, then her parents should have been the ones to make the decision. Which still means the abortionists would be found guilty of murder.
Same here!
Maybe you need to speak with HeadShrinker.
Just un-flippin-believable.
Amen!
I liken it to the Colluseum in Rome in ancient times. Circus Maximus......Meant to entertain the people and yet remind them of the power of the state while the adrenaline is coursing. What matters is not if it's right or wrong, but that it was a state sponsored event and people die in the public arena. Think of Waco, Elian Gonzales, Terri Schiavo, public schools and their absurd contradictions in policy and law, etc.......What is important is that it's covered 24/7 and gets plenty of hearings, senate panels, legal appeals, and if possible a show of power by the state as well. Tanks, Bradley's, SWAT outfits, and expert guest comment on CNN make the event a huge success. It really does not matter who did what. Any press is good press if you're killing people with state assets.
I was a little over the top, and you are right, there may well be some good apples in the barrel.
I just have next to zero respect for the cops who arrested this woman trying to save her child and her grandchild.
The ends justify the means. That's just how it is for the liberals.
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Then why did they arrest her?
Thanks for your reply. I was just stewing here, ready to blow up at the next liberal I ran into. Knowing that this lunacy doesn't belong to a certain political party affiliation kept me from doing something rash...
"I am shocked and appalled! Considering I had to sign 3 forms in order for my 17 year old son to be able to get an allergy shot without my presence, one would think a 14 year old would need parental permission for an ABORTION! Insane"
Agreed. I had to show ID just to have my 10 year old's ears pierced. We truly live in a sick society. It's getting more pathetic every day.
She wouldn't have to pick some poor schmuck. The mother of the culprit that took her had to sign in as her guardian/ride home. And if she didn't, the clinic is in deep DEEP crap.
I counsel at a clinic. We watched a girl who was no more than 12 go in for an abortion with her boyfriend (definitely in high school) with her. We notified a police officer that she was in there without a majority guardian and pointed out she didn't get pregnant by herself. He drove away and did nothing.
"How do the cops involved in Shiavo, this abortion juggernaut, and other such wrongdoings live with themselves?"
I don't know. I just don't know.
BTW, it's Justice Kennedy who says that 14-yr olds are mature enough to have abortions, but 17-yr olds convicted of murder cannot face the death penalty. I guess the Rolling Stones were right:
"Every cop is a criminal / And all the sinners, saints"
Otherwise this is kidnapping and obstruction of justice on the part of the phony Grandmother.
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