Abortion Clinic, Social Workers Pressured Teen Into Abortion Without Parental Consent
This young woman even wanted to keep her baby and refused to cooperate before she was finally persuaded, the suit alleges
A Virginia abortion clinic and local social services are facing a lawsuit after allegedly pressuring a teenage girl into aborting her baby without parental consent, even when the girl expressly wanted to keep the baby.
Bristol Women’s Health in Bristol, Virginia and the Dickenson County Department of Social Services are facing $15.4 million in damages over the suit, which was filed by the parents of the young mother.
They say that their daughter “intended to take her child to full term and intended to deliver her baby at the appropriate time” but was talked out of it after repeated attempts to do so by the clinic and social workers.
The teenager, who was 15 at the time “remained upset throughout the process, and initially refused to cooperate with any abortion” before she “was persuaded to abort her baby,” the lawsuit stated, as reported by WJHL.
The suit alleges that the girl, identified only as CRFM in legal filings, was removed from her father’s care and taken to an abortion clinic by a DSS employee on Jan. 19, when the pressure began to abort her child.
She was three months pregnant at the time.
The lawsuit alleges that the clinic has refused to hand over medical records to CRFM’s parents “despite multiple written requests.”
“It’s just shocking that it happened,” attorney Tim McAfee, who is representing the family, told News Channel 11. “The young lady has killed her baby. That’s how she looks at it.”
The clinic, for its part, denies that it would ever pressure anyone into an abortion. Of course, many of the extensive investigations conducted on the part of multiple pro-life organizations often reveal just how deliberately tactful abortion clinic workers are at convincing women to abort their unborn babies.
According to the lawsuit, this young woman was willing to bring her child to term, yet because of this culture of death’s twisted notions about the death of a child, she and her parents are now mourning her baby. Abortion access has never been about “choice,” it’s always been about expanding abortion, period, no matter who it victimizes along the way. Pray for this heartbroken family.
H/T LifeSite
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