What If This Was Your Daughter?

First, read this story.

The setting is this - the mother of a fourteen year old girl learns that her daughter has become pregnant, and that she has been taken to an abortuary by the mother of the teenage boy that knocked her up. The girl's mother goes to the abortuary to take her daughter home:

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.

The 14-year old told her mother she could hear her but when she asked employees to give her mother a message, they came back to the room and told her that her mother had left.

Mark Noonan over at GOP Bloggers raises points that ought to be gapingly obvious, and would have been in just about any other time before our own:

If I were to go down to a nearby school and take a 14 year old who was not my child or legal ward, wouldn't that be kidnapping? A 14 year old cannot legally consent to go with me, nor can the school consent to having a non-legal guardian take a child.

The girl is 14 and she certainly was pregnant: I believe that the age of consent is not 14. If a person beneath the age of consent has sex, isn't this statutory rape?

I cannot imagine that it is legal for any person or institution (other than legal authorities given custody of a child) to deny access to a person's minor child.

And yet was the boy's mother arrested? No. Was the boy arrested? No. Was anybody at the abortuary arrested? No.

Was the girl's mother arrested? Yes.

The question I ask at the top cannot be easily or lightly dismissed. Even if you're as pro-abortion as can be (and assuming that such a person could even allow any child spawned by them to live to be born), can you, as a parent, remotely countenance or approve of a stranger whisking away your own child (including pulling her out of school by pretending to be her mother) without your knowledge of either the act itself or that she's pregnant for what is still Orwellianly described as a "medical procedure"? Even if you would have taken her to get sliced & diced yourself, wouldn't you consider that to be your own perogative as a parent?

I will freely admit that it's been a long time since my college business law courses, but I seem to recall that the age of majority is eighteen, which includes the right to make binding contracts. Fourteen seems to be below that legal threshold, as it is also below the age of sexual consent. So, legally speaking, when that abortuary "med tech" insolently tossed off to the girl's mother that, "It's your daugher's rights, it's her body; you have no rights," s/he was flatly wrong, because a fourteen-year-old hasn't any rights, and the parent, as legal guardian, does have the right to control the "medical" treatment his/her child receives.

Except, it would seem, where abortion on demand is involved.

This (if you'll pardon my lapse into French) is bullshit.

I hope this girl's mother sues the school and this abortuary and the boyfriend's mother for every dime they've collectively got. HOW DARE they? Between the school's negligence, the boy's mother's deception and, arguably, kidnapping, and the abortuary's refusal to allow the girl to communicate with her (real) mom despite her request to do so (arguably wrongful imprisonment), how is it possible that the only person who ended up "being taken downtown" was the girl's mother?

And what about the girl herself? Charlie Johnson asked that very question:

Many complained of coercion by a boyfriend. Scared and young, they were afraid to talk to their parents. Many said that the abortion clinics spoke in terms of a “blob of tissue” or a “clump of cells” and that the reality of the child did not hit home until after the abortion was over. Some spoke of seeing tiny body parts and shrinking in horror.

Almost all agonized over a sense of abandonment after it was over. The abortion counselors had no more to offer after the abortion was finished. Boyfriends abandoned them. They felt they would be a pariah if they ever spoke of the matter to family or church support groups. And almost all expressed a sense of betrayal that they had been young and what was going to happen had been misrepresented to them. There was a tremendous sense of guilt.

Certainly, legislators have good reasons to protect minors when there is a case of suspected home abuse. But home abuse is not the only form of exploitation of minors. If the allegations in this situation are correct, legislatures will certainly want to re-examine existing law to protect children from abuse from all quarters.

The ultimate victim is, of course, the unborn child that was dismembered in the womb. The unconscionably outrageous events swirling around this particular fetuscide are symptomatic of the unreasoning, murderous zealotry that drives the pro-abortion movement, and the death culture in which it malignantly resides.

Make no mistake - this girl and her deceased offspring are victims every bit as much as Terri Schiavo, just as the boy's mother and the abortuary "med techs" are of a scaly kind with Michael Schiavo, George Felos, and George Greer. And it would appear that they are willing to go to any lengths necessary to advance their macabre, nihilistic cause.

It would be a bit cheeky to call this a "battle to the death." "Battle against death" doesn't really fit because death (the physical variety, anyway) is inevitable.

"Battle for life"...yes, that's the ticket.

But if that's too sweeping or melodramatic for you, just think of it as the battle for your children against those who would drag them away from you for unspeakable purposes.

Just about every parent should be able to get behind that.