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.
The Terri Schiavo thing is going to have serious consequences. There are a lot of people standing right at the edge of calm who are about an inch away from free falling out of control. My advice to the state and the liberals is to regroup and stay out of view for a while. Let Paris Hilton fill the news for a while. The public needs to go back to numb.
A ten year old that gets into someone's car because he promises candy goes willingly, too. I think if it's a minor it constitutes kidnapping.
Thanks for the update!
Now I am even more Ticked off then before!
Where is it going to end?
Insanity!
Well, that's what I'm getting at. Knowing those details might just change the tone of the whole story.
Perhaps the daughter did threaten. If so, then should the mother have done more -- perhaps drive her daughter to school? Advise the boy and his mother to stay away? Perhaps even a court restraining order on them?
See what I'm getting at? The article, as written, has the mother as the victim.
Liberals call conservatives extremists, if this isn't extreme then I need to re-evaluate definitions.
We can kill babies, kill Terri Shiavo, but dont dare bother the spotted owls.
I hope the mother does sue, the school for letting the girl leave, the boys mother, the clinic and all others.
great post.
Why isn't this 'MAN'S' mother arrested for kidnapping????
Ah-HA! Very good.
Unfortunately, I was kind of looking forward to that nap...
Because she wanted the abortion.
I just wonder how much the guy('s family) paid her. Hopefully she wasn't so stupid as to let them off for free.
My daughter could not bring cough drops to school, but she can go get an abortion accompanied by a virtual stranger.
Yeah, this country is going to make it. I think I'll invest in some mountain/cave property.
My mouth is just hanging open...it just gets more and more outrageous!
Actually, liberals are all in favor of letting 14 year olds "make their own choice" not to have an abortion. It virtually guarantees that both the mother and child will end up dependent on the welfare state, and thus consistently vote for candidates who advocate the perpetual expansion of government hand-out programs. All those hordes of inner-city welfare recipients, who have been reproducing in adolescence for several generations, consistently vote Democrat.
BEAT DOWN!!!
DO THIS TO MY KID AND BEAT DOWN
Suppose that the boys parents who abducted her from school to have an abortion without her parents consent look out their window during dinner tonite and find a hundred parents of 14 year old girls standing in their front yard with pitchforks.
INdeed. And I would expect them to become the proud owners (and shutters-down) of one very bad abortion mill.
Would have, sure. Where is it now?
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