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.
I like the way you think.
Welcome to a nation in the latter stages of moral decay and in open rebellion against all traditional values of western civilization.
The Constitutional separation of powers has been perverted to the point that now the Judicial Branch holds more power than both the other two combined. The U.S. is no longer a Constitutional Republic governed by 3 branches of government, it's now in effect a dictatorship whose laws are made and enforced by an unelected, unaccountable, and untouchable judiciary.
And the truly frightening aspect of this is that if the polls concerning the Shiavo case can be believed, that situation is quite satisfactory to 3/4 of the dictators' subjects.
WTF?????????????????????
DOES ANYONE HAVE AN UPDATE ON THIS STORY? HAS THE MOTHER SUED THE SCHOOL< THE 'GRANDMOTHER' ? HAS THE RAPIST BEEN ARRESTED???
But still, the parents and grandfather should have been the only ones who could have made that decision. The mother that called her sick out of school should be criminally liable in some respect.
If you substitute anything else for "abortion" in this story, the faux grandma would be under arrest for kidnapping.
This is completely appalling.
There should be butts in jail for this!!
That's exactly right. I feel an inalienable right and responsibility was given to me and my husband when we had our daughter. I take that very seriously and in situations like this, the only one I have to answer to is God. No freaking way the same article would have been if it were my daughter.
It's called the right to privacy - it's been turned into a pretzel...
I completely agree. However, some people think the woman took the girl from school. And, at first reading, that was my impression, too. I just wanted to clear that up.
Why? They are only killing a baby. No big deal right????
Then why the hell is JACKSON on trial? This is BS!BS!F-BS!
Everyone involved should be jailed and sued into their NEXT GENERATION!
Damn this pisses me off! AHHHHHHH!
The evidence has been aborted~!
Is that sad or criminal (in a just world)?
Dead-on, Dan. (new nickname? Dead-On Dan?) As society travels the wide road (and a few freepers are happy to be on it) the Sodom scene from DeMille's Bible seems less and less abnormal.
Apples and oranges. An allergy shot is a medical procedure. An abortion is a sacrament of the secular religion.
Hail to the Culture of Death. And people (even some FReepers) wonder why law-abiding citizens are so cynical, and jaded about the police, judges, and the court system as it is now so perversely practiced.
"Damn this pisses me off! AHHHHHHH!"
I agree. It's time for a harmonic-convergence-primal-scream.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
(I don't feel any better)
I should hope so - and a hefty civil lawsuit should go along with it. This is an outrage.
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