Juanita Cuevas. who works as a medical assistant at Planned Parenthood’s South Sacramento clinic, wants her 14 year-old daughter to be able to have an abortion without her knowledge or permission.
The article says:
A Sacramento girl whose mother works at a Planned Parenthood clinic, has never had to seek out an abortion clinic. But if she were to get pregnant, she said, she’d want a safe place to turn for counseling and, perhaps, surgery—beyond the reach of her mother’s radar…..
The daughter, Priscilla Chavez, says:
“I don’t know,” she said. “Even though she’s a Planned Parenthood lady, I don’t think I would, because I would be afraid of her thinking badly of me.”….
Her mother is fine with this:
Cuevas said she is comfortable with that and wants only to ensure that her daughter and other girls continue to have a safe place to turn.
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“This is a woman’s right,” she said. “And I understand that a 14-year-old isn’t yet a woman, but it’s her right.”
Bernard J Ficarra, M.D, who wrote the book Abortion Analyzed, writes about how life begins at conception:
“A composite, unified, sacrosanct, unanimity of thought as to when life begins can be determined by studying embryologic physiology. Scientifically acknowledged pronouncements should be more acceptable in determining the onset of human life than legal opinion.”
Bernard J Ficarra, M.D. Abortion Analyzed (Laurel, MD: Health Educator Publications, Inc., 1989) 9
Ruth, who became an alcoholic after she aborted her baby, describes forcing her teenage daughter to have an abortion years later:
“I continued drinking and my husband took custody of the kids. He got drunk one night, molested my daughter Rosemarie, and got her pregnant. I believed there was a chance the baby would have birth defects, so I used that to justify my insistence that she have an abortion. She didn’t want an abortion so she ran away. We had her picked up and went before a judge who agreed with me that an abortion would be the best thing under the circumstance. Rosemarie finally relented and had an abortion. Later when she married, she lost three babies due to an incomplete cervix. That was really hard for me because I felt it was more retribution. Because of the abortion and all the alcohol and drugs around her, Rosemarie turned to alcohol and drugs herself… I bought into a lie and convinced myself it wasn’t a baby until it took a breath. That way I could justify my own abortion and forcing my daughter to have one too.”
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When my mom was pregnant, the doctors told her that the baby was going to be born with down syndrome, this devastated her. Her and my dad have been trying for years, the doctors suggested an abortion if my mother didn’t want to bring a child with a disability into this world. At first she agreed but later changed her mind bc she she was too attached. 3 weeks later my mom got a call saying the test results were wrong, they accidentally mixed up someone else’s test results with hers.
I was happy, sad and mad. I was happy for my mom but sad for the other family because of this huge mixup and extremely mad at the clinic for screwing up. If my mom would have aborted the baby and received this information afterwards, her whole world would have crumpled down.
Although even disabled babies have a right to live, there are many times where the tests are wrong or, like in this case, a mistake has been made.
Dr. Shirley Bond, an anesthetist who works in an abortion clinic, writes about the lack of counseling for adoption in the abortion clinic where she works.
“I think the counseling for adoption is abysmal – it’s virtually nonexistent. Sometimes adoption is raised all right, but in such a negative way – “I don’t suppose you want it adopted”, kind of thing. Or “Have you thought about adoption?” And that is adoption counselling.”
Most of the pregnancy counselling, Dr. Bond points out, is “done by people who are very pro-abortion. Basically, it’s geared to pro-abortion. I don’t think there are enough people around who know about adoption, so women are put off the whole procedure….I just think the whole climate about adoption is wrong in this country. It’s negative….
Adoption is not fashionable. Abortion is fashionable. You can sit and have a cup of tea with someone who will say they have had an abortion and no one thinks anything of it. But if a woman says she has placed her child for adoption, people are shocked. “What a terrible thing to do!” is the attitude.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 88-89
A woman in a study on abortion said she had an abortion because she wanted to enjoy life with her boyfriend and go sailing. Gail, age 26, said:
“It was really easy to make the decision, just because I didn’t want to be pregnant. I don’t like to stay home and cook and take care of a child; they make me nervous. My boyfriend is a student, and he doesn’t work. We have all these plans about traveling, and different things – going sailing, building a sailboat, and stuff. Maybe in a few years, but not right now, anyway. So, when I did find out that I was pregnant, there was really no decision to be made, you know, it had already been thought out.”
The author said:
“Gail had stated earlier in her interview that the fetus does not become an equal human life until it resembles human form.”
Judith G. Smetana Concepts of Self and Morality: Women’s Reasoning about Abortion (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1982) 74 In reality, a preborn baby looks human as early as 7 weeks after conception. Below you can see a preborn baby at 7 weeks, before and after an abortion:
Writer Mary Kenny wrote about a woman whose partner pressured her into an abortion. She says:
“When I said I was pregnant,” wrote one young woman, “It just didn’t seem to register with my lover. “Well, you can get rid of it, can’t you?” He said. I had felt so romantic towards him, so much in love that I thought our love would be forever. With the pregnancy, he turned quite cold towards me. I had the abortion, because that was what he wanted, but now our love has turned to dust and I feel very, very sad.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 69
Dr. David Paintin of St. Mary’s Paddington said, 1n 1986:
“We can manage nearly all pregnancies today, medically. That is, if the woman wants to continue it. Of course, if a woman with a chronic condition such as heart disease or diabetes wants a termination, she will immediately qualify on medical grounds. But if she really wants the baby, we can usually bring her through.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 123-124
“I was married: I was married to a man I loved. It’s no good crying poverty to me because I’ve been poor all my life until relatively recently. I knew that his mother would rally round and my mother would rally round, and people would give me things and we would manage. That’s what you do. That’s what life is about.”
But her husband insisted she get an abortion.
“We spoke about it afterwards, when I turned on him in great anger. “I’m glad you’ve been able to go through this with so little apparent knowledge of what you have done [she told him]. You really don’t know what you have asked of me… I am living, and will have to live with, what I have done, and you do not know what I have done.” … I do know that it took me several years to make peace with that one.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 67-68
