"So many women face intimidation and pressure to abort from selfish boyfriends, parents, and peers."
You are right, it's esp. horrible from parents. And I've even known of husbands coercing their wives into having abortions. However, I've never known of anyone going as far as these folks did. It would be almost unbelievable, except for the ropes, duct tape and guns the cops found.
Yeah it is unbelievable but sometimes people don't have to use ropes and duct tape. They use words and threats of isolation and exclusion to get their way. I have thought for sometime that the whole paranoia that has developed around having children is unfortunate given that in todays modern world it is absolutely unecessary especially in the United States. We waste billions of dollars on trivial bureacratic excess and exclaim with hands thrown up in the air about how we are going to deal with all those unwanted pregnacies as if they are some kind of disease. The horrible part is the clarity of knowing that some with teeth dripping with saliva thirst politically for the death of innocents to feed their personal agenda of transforming the relationships between men and woman into an ongoing war building up selfish individualism that leaves people at the end of their lives even more dependant on the government.