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.
It seems every year around this time Satan's minions are busier then usual.
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UN F'N REAL!!!
In a nation that had a sliver of a chance for survival, there would be arrests for murder, rape and kidnapping, but not for a mother trying to protect her baby and grandbay.
Stick a fork in us.
Take a good look everyone. Our nation is disintegrating before your very eyes.
This is the perfect case to squash the Democrats with. Let them come out and defend the abortion clinic, etc....Most parents will not go for this. I hope this gets alot of play on tv and radio. It needs to.
It sounds like this minor girl was kidnapped by a person who was not her lawful guardian.
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!
Chilling...the school is as fault, the kidnapper is at fault, the statutory rapist is at fault, the police are at fault, even the daughter is at fault, but the mom gets arrested. Hang on, it's going to get interesting.
Un.......f**king...........believable.
This isn't the country I thought I lived in.
I see. The guy who got her pregnant could be charged with statutory rap, but the doctor can penetrate her and perform invasive surgery and not incur any criminal liability.
Makes sense to me.
What right does the the other Mother have to take the girl for an abortion. She is not her legal guardian!! Does she not need the permission of the legal guardian to take the girl for an abortion??
They would have had to arrest me for more than tresspassing or making noise.
In other news, there are now laws on the books that prevent you from getting your CAT declawed!
TRULY unbelievable!
What I find the most horrendous are the adults working is such clinics, saying those things, and behaving that way.
Woe be the persons or clinic who dare perform a medical procedure on my children before they are 18.
Hey, ear piercing could conceivably harm the child, whereas abortion is a perfectly safe medical procedure that merely removes an "unviable tissue mass."
At the very least, parental interference.
I can't believe the school didn't check her ID.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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