Jun 13, 2008 / 03:57 am
A pro-life group has cited the recent case of a Georgia woman who pressured her teenage son’s girlfriend to have an abortion as further evidence of the coercion it says is often involved in legal abortions.
A Georgia woman has confessed that she insisted her 16-year-old son’s pregnant girlfriend not give birth. Taking the girl to an abortion clinic, the woman pretended to be the girl’s mother, illegally signed the girl’s parental notification form, and paid for the abortion without the girl’s parents’ knowledge. The girl’s parents were not told about the abortion until after it was performed.
The woman has been sentenced to one year in jail for her deception and coercion.
Janet Morana, co-founder o f the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), said the case was not unusual.