STATEN ISLAND, Ny., June 11 /Christian Newswire/ -- The recent case of a Georgia woman who pressured her teenage son's girlfriend into having an abortion [see story below] illustrates that the procedures are often not chosen, but coerced, say leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), the world's largest network of individuals harmed by abortion.
"The claim of the pro-abortion lobby that terminating a child's life is 'a choice between a woman and her doctor or her God' is empty rhetoric to the countless women I know who were intimidated or threatened by boyfriends, husbands, or relatives," said Janet Morana, co-founder of SNMAC. "This Georgia case shows just how far reaching the pressure to abort can be."
The case in question involved a woman who, court records show, insisted that her 16-year-old son's pregnant girlfriend not give birth. The woman confessed to pretending to be the girl's mother and illegally signing the girl's parental notification for abortion form. She was sentenced to one year in jail. The girl's actual parents were not told about the abortion until after it was performed.
"Abortion clinics will not voluntarily ask girls or women if they're being coerced into ending their children's lives," added Georgette Forney, another co-founder of SNMAC. "Abortion clinics are in business to make money and the more abortions they perform, the richer everyone involved becomes; everyone, that is, except the woman who's just had her life shattered and the baby who's just had his life ended."
Since the launching of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign in 2003, 2,326 women and men have shared their testimonies publicly at over 200 gatherings in 44 states and six countries where more than 15,000 spectators have heard the truth about abortion's negative aftereffects. More than 4,100 people are registered to be Silent No More. Raising awareness about the hurtful aftermath of abortion and the help that is available to cope with the pain are two of the Campaign's goals.
The Silent No More Awareness Campaign is a joint project of Anglicans for Life and Priests for Life. For more information, please visit our website:
www.SilentNoMoreAwareness.org
From Jill Stanek's Blog we read:
Woman gets 1 year for illegally signing to abort grandchild
Good for the judge for giving the maximum sentence. Bad that the maximum sentence for illegally giving permission to kill a preborn is only 1 year. From the Atlanta Journal Constitution, today:
A Hall County woman is serving a year in jail for pretending to be a girl's mother when she signed off on the girl's abortion.In reality, Cindi Cook was the mother of the girl's boyfriend, who also was 16 when she became pregnant in early 2007.
Displeased that the baby would ruin her son's chance of going to college, Cook, 44, pressured the 16-year-old girl to have the abortion in the spring of 2007, found a clinic that would do it without her present, and paid for the procedure....Last week, a judge sentenced Cook to a year in jail - the maximum for a misdemeanor - for interfering with custody and violating a parental notification law....
James said his office is now investigating whether the facility - Northside Women's Clinic in Chamblee - broke a state law that required parental notification when a girl under the age of 18 has an abortion.
According to its Web site, Northside Women's Clinic offers abortions through the 15th week of pregnancy, usually in about 10 minutes....
The AJ-C is not identifying the girl because she is a minor.
More than a year after the abortion, "she's still struggling with the loss of the baby," said Fenn Little, her family's attorney. "She's getting better, but there's going to be a lot of counseling and issues that have to be addressed."
Through their attorney, the girl's parents issued this statement: "The actions of both Cindi Cook and the Northside Women's Clinic have affected our daughter's life with much pain this past year because of the loss of her baby. It was a sense of helplessness. As for us, they took away our right to be there and help our daughter during a time when she needed us most. The outcome of the trial is a positive step forward in the long healing process that we must go through as individuals and as a family."
