Teen Force-Fed Turpentine in Abortion Attempt

The mother and two cousins of a pregnant 16 year old girl have been arrested and accused of forcing the girl to drink turpentine in an effort to abort the unborn baby.

Here's the story: Police: Teen Force-Fed Turpentine in Abortion Attempt

Isn't one of the so-called "pro-choice" arguments that "safe and legal" abortion prevents this type of thing from happening?

What are your thoughts?

Comments

[Billy D]

Even more tragic is that she conceived apparently from a sexual assault, yet chose to give birth to the baby. Now she suffers again at the hands of her relatives.

[JMC]

It's more of the same. Ever since abortion was legalized, there's been an increase of abuse of pregnant women by men who try to force them into "getting rid of it," and when they won't, doing all sorts of things to try to make her abort anyway. The most common is shoving her down a flight of stairs, hoping the fall will cause a miscarriage, to something as direct as beating her, punching her repeatedly in the abdomen.
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No matter how you try to whitewash it, evil only begets more evil. Once again, "by their fruits you shall know them."

[Cassandra]

Do you have any stats on that? I believe it's true but as a candidate for office I'd like to have more ammo than just my general impression.

[Matriarch]

This is not new. Attempts by reluctant boyfriends, humiliated fathers, incestuous brothers and traumatized young girls to force miscarriage is nothing new. Been going on forever. Watch Gone With the Wind. Why do you think Rhett knocks Scarlett down the stairs? Read Far from the Madding Crowd. And that's just a start. Until a couple hundred years ago, most of the world dealt with unwanted offspring (or defective) by "exposure". Ugly, ugly, ugly. In China, women jumped down the well with their babies. In India, baby girls were allowed to nurse after poison was applied to the mother's nipple. The world has never been kind to unwanted children, nor to the women (often young girls) who give birth to them.

[Matriarch]

This is not new. Attempts by reluctant boyfriends, humiliated fathers, incestuous brothers and traumatized young girls to force miscarriage is nothing new. Been going on forever. Watch Gone With the Wind. Why do you think Rhett knocks Scarlett down the stairs? Read Far from the Madding Crowd. And that's just a start. Until a couple hundred years ago, most of the world dealt with unwanted offspring (or defective) by "exposure". Ugly, ugly, ugly. In China, women jumped down the well with their babies. In India, baby girls were allowed to nurse after poison was applied to the mother's nipple. The world has never been kind to unwanted children, nor to the women (often young girls) who give birth to them.