Staten Island, NY – The recent case of a Georgia woman who pressured her
teenage son’s girlfriend into having an abortion 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.silentnomoreawarenes.org
