Pro-Abortion Assault on Pregnant Teens

Pregnant Texas Teen Sues Parents to Stop Them From Aborting Her Baby. At sixteen years old, an unnamed girl is engaged in a fight to save a life, according to an article in The Washington Times. She brought her problem to court, alleging that her parents have forced her to work two jobs, prevented her from going to school and even suggesting that she has been physically assaulted since she has become pregnant. The judge has instituted at temporary restraining order on her father for the duration of the case's time in court; whether or not she will be allowed to keep her baby is not yet known. It is a sad fact that this is not the only case of its kind, though it is somewhat rare for such cases to be brought to court. Extremely often, in teen abortion cases, it is the parents who urge that their grandchildren be killed. And how is a sixteen year old to defy her mother or father? When a mother declares she is ashamed of her daughter, when a father loses his temper and tells her that he won't have a baby in the house, what can a girl do? It is difficult to think that it is when these girls are at their most vulnerable, they are forced to make a life or death decision—for another human being. They aren’t left with much choice. “When my mom found out,” remembers Lauren in her personal narrative on the TeenBreaks website, “she blew her top and told me she was going to force me to have an abortion and it did not matter what I wanted.” And, sadly, parental authority can often overcome even the most supportive of outside influences, leaving the girl with the feeling that she has no choice but to kill her child, and her parents’ grandchild. But sometimes it isn’t the parents. Sometimes it’s the boyfriend, who doesn’t want the responsibility of taking care of a kid, who wants to finish school, who doesn’t want to be tied to the girl anymore. It must be terrifying for a guy to find out that he is a father when his girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant. But there are other things that they fear. “My baby’s dad didn’t want me to [keep the baby] because he was afraid to go to jail,” Tracy recalls of her abortion. She was fifteen and he was much older when she made the decision. The boyfriend’s parents can be an influence. So can friends, who may continually tell the girl that she would ruin her life if she had her baby. Other family members such as aunts and uncles can be an influence, so can teachers… Pressure to have an abortion comes from all directions. And when there’s nowhere else to turn, she goes to the counselors, which may prove to be the deciding factor in making her have an abortion. Carol Everett, former abortion worker turned pro-life activist expresses it like this: “I’m sure you’ve seen those numbers advertised… When a young girl find out she is pregnant, she may not want an abortion, she may just want information,” she says. “But when she calls that number that’s paid for by abortion money, what kind of information do you think she’s going to get?” And that is the most sickening influence that drives young women to obtain abortions.