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.
Is it just me, or does that donkey look like Hitlery???
Dear Lord, please assure me, GS, that you do not have any children. If so, do you really have that much hatred for them? Do you have any idea at all of how traumatic a woman's life becomes after an abortion? Having a baby at 14 is certainly not ideal but at the very worst it is inconvenient. Fleetingly inconvenient, when you consider that, at 14, said girl still has a good 50 or 60 years of living ahead of her. You'd make your daughter live out those 50 or 60 years with a tortured psyche. You really are one sick bastard.
How else do they suppose the girl became pregnant? Do they think a stork came to visit? Stupid-heads.
The next thing we'll find is that the parents of the rapist are exceedingly infuential in that town. The police are helping to protect them.
Maybe there's more to the story. I would have to agree. What is wrong with people letting the government or anyone for that matter dictate what is going to be done to their children. No way Jose! It's ridiculous. My children belong to me!
I know, but this is abortion. When it comes to turning babies into hamburger, all bets are off.
Did you seek guidance from your parents before you made your adult decisions?
It's kind of funny, but as I got older, my parents tried to take blame for some of my actions as a teenager. As I told them, "I knew better, I did it anway."
Pretty much what I said in post 240.
Wow! I am speechless. Under age and pregnant, someone should be arrested and not the mother!
I just hope the parents of this girl follow through with action against this clinic and the boyfriends mother. For them to get away with this is dispicable. For the parents to let them get away with it is even more so!
Actually, and I should have posted this sooner, the daughter was not taken from school. What happened was the gal who took her to the abortion clinic called the school and told the school the girl was sick. The woman then picked the girl up at her home.
It is a little confusing, the way the article is written, because of the nomenclature "called off from school."
Good for you. Exactly as I feel.
GS must have never heard of adoption!
If my daughter would get pregnant(I pray to got that she will not)at that age I would put my Grandchild up for adoption or raise it myself!
Yah, you got that right.
How dare this girl's Mother, attempt to stop the family of the punk who knocked her up from forcing their family's values (or the complete lack thereof) upon her daughter.
It depends on the legal definition of kidnap. As I said before, morally it's kidnapping. Whether it's kidnapping in a court of law, I don't know.
I guess it would depend on whether the girl's intent was to go and the woman was helping her, or if the woman took her without telling her why.
Either way, the woman should be arrested and the proverbial book thrown at her.
I truly hope you don't have daughters.
Eh, she'll just use a version of the "Andrea Yates Post Partum Depression" defense: "I was beside myself at the idea of being a grandmother so young and went a little crazy."
"That school is going to have one hellacious lawsuit on their hands for not making SURE that woman was who she said she was. I see kidnapping charges as well."
It all depends on the Judge.
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