The Elliot Institute has update it's report on coerced abortions. "one survey of women who had abortions finding that 64 percent said they felt pressured by others to abort and nearly 80 percent said they did not receive the counseling they needed to make a decision"
I definitely was coerced by my dad to abort…a act that impacted every aspect of my life for years. Free choice = no choice. Having worked in this field for close to 20 years I have to say that a large percentage of the women I have seen were coerced once you get down to looking at the whole experience.
Among the new cases added to the report:
* A Kansas man and his wife were convicted of sex abuse after the
man raped his stepdaughters over a several year period, resulting
in four pregnancies and at least one abortion, performed on an
11-year-old. The case was reported to authorities by a pro-life
organization after one of the girls visited their office seeking
an abortion; the group says that the abortion business did the
abortion without informing authorities of any suspected abuse.
* Two Ohio teenagers were convicted for kidnapping and assaulting
a pregnant teen, killing her unborn child. Police said one of the
boys thought he had fathered the child, and the two hit the teen
and kicked her the abdomen to cause the death of her 8-month-old
unborn child. One of them allegedly told her that she should have
gotten an abortion, and that “now your baby is going to die.”
DNA tests showed the teen was not the father.
* A man was sentenced to 9 years in prison for secretly giving his
wife an abortion-inducing drug after she refused to abort. The
woman secretly taped him admitting to giving her the drug but
trying to convince her that she really wanted to have an
abortion.
* A high school junior was beaten to death by her 22-year-old
boyfriend after she refused to have an abortion. According to
police, the man hit the teen at least four times on the head with
a bat and admitted he did not want her to have the baby. He
pleaded guilty after leading police to the girl’s body, which
he had buried under leaves in the woods. The man was sentenced to
22 years to life in prison.
"Our files contain hundreds of stories from women and girls who
were attacked or killed with the intent of getting rid of the
pregnancy," said Elliot Institute spokesperson Amy Sobie. "We've
been collecting these stories for more than six years through
mainstream media sources and pro-life organizations who have been
diligently reporting on these kinds of cases. The information is
out there, but many people aren't aware of what might be going on
in their own communities."
Sobie said that people might not immediately connect this with
abortion because in many cases the woman or girl never makes it
to an abortion clinic — she's attacked or killed before she even
gets there.
Read the rest here: www.theunchoice.com/News/forcedabreportrelease.htm
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