Anti-Choice Activists, Using Bogus Legal Threats, Trick Teens Into Signing Away Abortion Rights

[Jackie Wilson Said]

https://rewire.news/article/2016/03/30/anti-choice-activists-using-bogus-legal-threats-trick-teens-signing-away-abortion-rights/

Providers throughout the country have told Rewire that a document produced by Life Dynamics has been used to deceive and intimidate both patients and providers by threatening them with legal action should they go through with obtaining or providing an abortion.

Disgusting assholes.

[yewberry]

1. Jesus this is insane!

The story is terrible. I clicked around to find the people responsible, and their website goes to a site promoting Nazi parenthood. Not joking.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

3. And they bring the police in and threaten the kid and the parent.

And some folks want to play around with the idea of a GOP White House?

My god.

[uppityperson]

2. K&R, disgusting assholes indeed

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Well, I would think it is time for a federal investigation

and a civil suit, followed by disbarment for the lawyers involved.

[Ilsa]

5. I would hope that would do the trick. But I

bet the same people would enlist others to take up their cause under a new name, same tactics. Whack-a-mole. I think only prison sentences (and disbarment) would stop them.

[Ilsa]

6. Read through the whole story, and

I can't fathom why the girl would go to a teacher about something so personal. I would not have trusted anyone at my school. That teacher was trying to railroad her by proxy.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. She might have been afraid to talk to her mother

and approached a "trusted" teacher, or a friend may have spilled the beans think she was helping.

In any case the teacher should lose her job.

[csziggy]

9. I suspect some of the anti-choice fanatics groom the girls just like pedophiles

Groom their victims.

Although I was out of high school by the time of Roe v Wade, there were Christian sects that weaseled their way into schools by using the administrators and teachers who were strong believers. They were allowed to put on school sanctioned programs in school facilities and attempted to convert children who were raised in different belief systems - even other Christian sect.

For some of those fanatics, being a Presbyterian or other more main stream Christian sect was not good enough. They wanted to covert - "save" in their eyes - people who did not believe in their narrow minded fanatical version of Christianity.

I saw teachers with those beliefs befriend and groom the kids to get into their minds. They would subtly push the kids away from their parents and their friends that were not part of the sect's community. If the kids had some stressors - disagreements with their parents, problems at school, etc - they would set themselves up as a confidant and present their religion as the best way to solve those problems.

Since that was too early for girls to have the choice of abortion, I didn't see that scenario play out but the mechanisms the religious nuts used back then are perfect to groom girls to set them up for this more complex scam and abuse.

[Initech]

8. How do these people not get sued for this shit?