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Does
Anybody Hear Her?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viZ6H_2E7iU
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August 26, 2008
Written by Angela Michael
Psalms
10:17 “You hear, O Lord, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them,
and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in
order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.”
We were recently put in touch
with yet another heartbroken mother who was devastated after learning her
grandchild was killed and her rights to her minor daughter were ripped from
her arms, without her knowledge. Here in
18 yr old driver who signed for underage abortion boyfriend of underage girl
The following is this mother’s story:
“Always having been a Christian mother and raised my kids in church,
imagine my surprise when one Friday night last month I found my 16 year old
daughter was not where she told me she would be for the next few days, on a
camping trip with a friend. I had talked to her mom first (later turned
out it wasn’t her mom on the phone), and I really had a gut feeling
something was wrong on Thursday night when she went to the friend’s. They
were supposed to leave Friday morning. I got up early Friday and ran to the
friend’s house and no one would answer the door. I just still felt really
wrong, so I made many calls that day, without getting a hold of anyone. I
looked everywhere and the mom of the friend and friend she was supposed to go
with would not tell me where to find her.
My husband and I spent the next 4 hours desperately searching, calling,
and driving to each friend’s home in a panic. Finally, after several hours,
I went back to the mother of her friend in tears, “I am not going
home til I find my daughter. She has been gone almost 24 hours and I don’t
know where she is.” She responded, “Well, you
aren’t going to like it. I know where she is. She is in
I ran to the boyfriend’s mom and she got ahold of them. When he
finally admitted to what they were there for I begged to talk to him and
begged him and begged him through tears thinking maybe it wasn’t too late,
“PLEASE don’t do that. I would take the baby if you don’t want it. We
would help you raise it. There is adoption.” Finally he told
me it was too late. She was 20
WEEKS PREGNANT!!!! My heart just broke.
The boyfriend’s mom and I stayed together crying until 1:30 a.m. and
then I went home and cried the rest of the night with my husband and it was
horrible. I was so upset. The clinic made soup of my grandchild and sucked it
out with a hose the next day. The next morning I went to the friend’s home
who took her and cried to his parents about it to let them know what had
happened. They didn’t know either.
The next day when I got my daughter back I immediately cried and we had
long talks. She said that she ‘prayed about it and God will forgive
me. I couldn’t stand it inside me, it felt gross, I just wanted it out. I
just couldn’t be the pregnant girl at school.’ I had said "You
were over half way there! I could
have hid you at my sister's house for four months, they all love you too and
would have been glad to til we got through this." There
were 4 unhappy parents that wished they would have come to them.
She said she had a friend that apparently told her of the abortion
mill, whose mom held her hand through an abortion and "I knew you
wouldn't do that." I
said, "You are right, I wouldn't have.
I would have held your hand through labor, through handing it over to
adoptive parents, through raising it yourself.
But, you are right they wouldn't have touched you." I
told her, "I would have taken it.
It would have fit right in. Eventually
no one would have had to known it wasn't mine."
None of the reasons they gave me were mature, responsible reasons that
counseling and parents couldn't have handled and worked through with them.
The abortion was completely senseless.
Still the reasons they give me are selfish, teenage responses. I think
they separated themselves from it being a baby and they got the "pro-choice"
counseling up there. I told her I
never raised her to be pro-choice and I don't buy any of the crap they filled
her head with that it was her body. It's
a baby!
She says she just wants to be a kid, she didn't want to deal with the
problem. I had told her its just
legal murder. She is hurt by the
situation and I can see it in her eyes the pain, but I am not so sure she
regrets it yet. The consequences
of this go far beyond just now, it will be painful for years and years and
teens do not have any way of understanding the emotional consequences. All the
reasons she gave me weren’t good reasons to kill the baby.
How can they do that when she is so far along??? How can they do
that without my consent? Why do they need my consent to get her ears
pierced, if she would want a tattoo, to have a tonsillectomy, to have dental
work, but they can do that to MY daughter and grandchild
without my knowledge??? She needs me to go to the bank with her to sign
for her to get a checking account.
I felt SO cheated and devastated. I do not feel
at 16 she is able to make mature decisions and one day the emotional challenge
of getting over what she did will hit her. They cannot possibly
understand what they have done at that age. I would have never let her
do that and I would have helped her through any other decision she would have
made (adoption, me taking it and raising it, etc.) I was heartbroke and
still am over that.
The injustice is horrible that I feel along with the grief. I
would love to do anything legal to this clinic I could, but from what I read
there is nothing. I read the
I am really disappointed
in her and her boyfriend, but extremely angry at the clinic for doing this and
with the mother of the friend who decided not to tell me. If they had
told me hours earlier, the baby would still be alive. I had my parental rights
ripped from me on such a crucial matter. Why an 18 year old kid is allowed to
step in for me and make crucial decisions about life/death and my daughter's
well-being, well it’s insanity. We could of given that baby a loving home.
It’s frustrating that the so-called counselors in Hope Clinic
counseled MY daughter about her life/ body, when it affects
the clinic for that day and affects us for life, and I don’t get a say. The
emotional consequences we will have to deal with for years will affect all our
lives. My daughter needs my consent to open a bank account, get dental work,
ears pierced, but someone at Hope Clinic decided she was old enough to end
someone else’s life and put herself at serious risk. The next time my
daughter wants to open a bank account, I’ll tell her, “Maybe she
should consider going to Illinois, maybe you won’t need me to sign for you
if you go there.” Our hearts will be broken over this for
years to come." - Mary
(We remember the two boys that brought this underage girl. The
abortion was started on Friday. On Saturday, the driver vandalized our boom
box that plays soft Jesus music. Police responded and gave them a warning.)
Forget about whether or not you agree or disagree with abortion. How is it that a parent has no say in a major medical decision involving their child? A 16 year old can’t get emergency room treatment for a broken nose or stitches until a parent authorizes it. She can’t get a tattoo or her ears pierced without her parents’ permission. She can’t even get an aspirin at school unless her parents say it’s OK. Yet the law allows her to get an abortion, en evasive surgical procedure, which can have life-threatening complications, without her parents’ consent or even knowledge. Which shows the insanity in a similar situation:
An
Hope abortion Clinic will say that they were only following the law,
but the law needs to change.
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