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LIFE WITHOUT CHOICE.
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Is abortion the answer? Is adoption the answer?
Should FEMALES have autonomy? Or should decisions be forced upon them?
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WHO Will Be the JUDGE??
South Dakota recently passed a law that forbids abortions unless the life of the mother is endangered. Bill Napoli of South Dakota believes abortion should be allowed for a certain type of rape victim: "A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life."
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In the Child's Best interest: Which Child??
The following case involves a young girl who made a choice about her pregnancy but was told she did not have a right to choose whether she would be pregnant or not.
Paulina was raped as a thirteen-year-old and became pregnant. Paulina and her mother desired an abortion. For one thing, they believed that a woman should be able to choose the father of one's child!
A number of Catholics organized to prevent the operation; however, these people gave no assistance to Paulina and her mother in raising the baby from birth to adulthood. When Paulina reached the age of 18, she was able to speak out about her lack of choice.
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[Senator Clinton] "cited research estimating that 15,000 abortions a year are by women who have been sexually assaulted, one of several reasons, she said, that morning-after emergency contraception should be made available over the counter" (Article by Patrick D. Healy in The New York Times, January 24, 2005).
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A BirthMother Searches for Her Son and For Self-Empowerment
In the following case, a woman became pregnant "out of wedlock" and was offered an abortion. Her religious upbringing, however, would not allow an abortion; yet she was offered no resources to raise her child, but was told to relinquish her child to the adoption agency and to "wonderful adoptive parents."
Excerpts from her book -- Search for Paul David -- can be found at amazon.com.
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Go to the PetitionSite.com to sign petition on the following case:
Return Baby Evelyn Bennett
Stephanie Bennett's parents went to court in Stark County and were awarded custody of their grandchild, Evelyn, but the adoption agency refuses to return Stephanie Bennett's baby.
We, the undersigned, demand the return of Baby Evelyn Bennett to her mother, Stephanie, and her custodial gaurdians, her grandparents, Judy and Ranza Bennett immediately. We believe the coercion on the mother, the secretive nature of the transactions, the unethical and immoral means used to wrest the signature from the lone and unprotected mother, and the complete dismissal of the rights of the grandparents, who were and remain the legal guardians of Evelyn, show sufficient evidence of the widespread use of unethical adoption practice in this case and that an investigation into the practices utilized by this and other agencies in the state of Ohio should be commenced.
We demand the return of Baby Evelyn Bennett to her rightful family, the Bennetts.
(Aislin Fletcher is the sponsor for the petition.)
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Three and a half years ago, Baby Evan was born to Amanda, an unwed mother.
Amanda Hopkins agreed to allow Dawn and Gene Scott to adopt her newborn son (Evan) if they would allow her frequent contact with him and agree to return him to her if their adoption case failed.
A judge dismissed the Scotts' adoption case on March 8, 2002, ruling that the biological father neither abandoned his son nor agreed to his adoption. The Scotts appealed unsuccessfully.
Although the Scotts foster-parented Baby Evan, they never were his adoptive parents!
In returning Evan to his natural family, Judge Wallace stated that "the natural mother has spent a great deal of time with her son, her son knows her and has bonded with her, as testified by a court-appointed custody evaluator." The judge pointed out that "Evan has also bonded with his half sister as well as his stepfather." (Amanda was now married, though not to Evan's biological father.) ("Judge Unseals Records," Jan. 7, 2005, article published by Associated Press.)
(Note: In addition, Evan bonded with his mother Amanda during ten lunar months when she carried him every day, 24 hours a day. He grew accustomed to her voice. He will grow up sharing many of her characteristics.) [Pauline Evans].
(One wonders: If the Scotts had succeeded in adopting Evan, would they have honored an open adoption agreement? Many -- though certainly not all -- such agreements fail once the adoption has become final, when the adoptive parents feel they no longer have to "court" the birthmother. When the child is legally theirs, they don't want to be "bothered" by the birthmother. Many don't want to be reminded that the child is not their own flesh and blood, and that the child's natural mother gave him life. [Pauline Evans]
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