Mother Arrested for Attempting to Stop 14yo Daughter’s Abortion
Derek Gilbert over at Weapon of Mass Distraction has a write-up on a mother who was arrested for trying to intervene in her 14-year old daughter’s abortion. This was originally reported in the Illinios Leader.
Evidently, the mother of the male responsible for the abortion lied to school administrators saying she was the girl’s grandmother and removed the girl from school. The parents and grandfather were the only ones authorized to removed the girl from the school. The parents of the girl somehow found out and suspected that their daughter was at Hope Abortion Clinic in Granite City.
“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.
“You have no rights.” That statement must have been devastating to that mother. Fourteen years of age is barely beyond adolescence and this mother is being told that she cannot protect her daughter from something that will cause her physical, mental and emotional anguish? My youngest daughter is a little older than this young girl and I am very protective of her. The same goes with her older sister and younger brother, for that matter. To be arrested for trying to protect my daughter would be fuel on my fire.
Employees assured this girl on her departure, “No-one will ever know you were here, we’ll bury your records.”
Anything for a buck…
In the meantime, the woman who had taken the girl for the abortion was slipped out the back door of the clinic.
Aiding and abetting.
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.
Ya think?
