Kidnap tied to forced abortion attempt

Manchester Union Leader ^ | September 18, 2006 | Mike Kalil

[Alia]

When the daughter grows up and has children of her own, imagine the stories she can tell them about their grandparents. "Yep, sweet child, my parents wanted you dead".

[sneakers]

How horrible! It doesn't say how old she is. I assume at least 18 since she's in college? How could they force their adult daughter to have an abortion against her will!

[Global2010]

what can b said?

[zipper]

What's the big deal-- the parents are just being good Democrats.

[kittymyrib]

This is one jury I'd love to be on. They should be charged with the attempted murder of their grandchild, as well as kidnapping their daughter, but of course, that won't happen in our benighted country.

[irishjuggler]

Another article said that Katelyn is 19. God bless her and her child.

[MaryFromMichigan]

When the daughter grows up and has children of her own, imagine the stories she can tell them about their grandparents. "Yep, sweet child, my parents wanted you dead".

Looks like she'll be a mom very soon. The parents wanted to take her to NY because of the stage of the pregnancy. That makes me suspect she wasn't in the early weeks or months.

[flynmudd]

I would love to hear the reasoning behind this. What do you suppose the excuse is going to be? Parents forcing an abortion on their daughter is truely inhumane.

[shekkian]

Looks like she'll be a mom very soon. The parents wanted to take her to NY because of the stage of the pregnancy. That makes me suspect she wasn't in the early weeks or months.

I caught the story on the news this morning. They said she's 20 weeks pregnant.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Thanks for the info.
That's pretty far along.

[Kimmers]

I feel so sorry for this girl. I hope there is an adult in her life that can help get her through this. Prayers for this young women.

[moonman]

Something just doesn't jive with this whole story. I'm no criminal expert, but, there seems to be a large piece missing here in my mind.

Quite possibly, that large piece missing, could be my mind! :(

[TNCMAXQ]

Surely the NARAL crowd and the abortion lovers will be coming to the defense of the parents. They probably think what the parents did should be made mandatory.

[gridlock]

I would like to say that there probably is no clinic in New York where you could bring a woman bound and gagged and have them perform an abortion on her. I would really, really like to be able to say that.

[gridlock]

Looks like she'll be a mom very soon. The parents wanted to take her to NY because of the stage of the pregnancy. That makes me suspect she wasn't in the early weeks or months.

I guess she hid her pregnancy from her parents. Imagine that!

[Aquinasfan]

When the daughter grows up and has children of her own, imagine the stories she can tell them about their grandparents. "Yep, sweet child, my parents wanted you dead".

I used to do prayer vigils outside Planned Parenthood in Boston. It seemed like every other girl was crying and was being led in by the arm by her mother.

I often wondered what it would be like to know that your mother wanted your child dead.

[livius]

I saw the same thing when I used to do prayer vigils in New York - middle-aged mothers pulling their teary young daughters into the "clinic." I'm sure if they'd gotten her to New York, they could have managed to carry it off in some way.

[QuiMundus]

Nicholas Kampf, 54, and Lola Kampf, 53

Hmmm. With a family like that maybe the child should be named "Mein"...?

[freedomfiter2]

He said it's unclear how the alleged kidnappers expected to get a doctor to perform an abortion against the young woman's will or why the parents acted as they did.

They weren't taking her to a doctor, they were taking her to an abortionist.