Friday, May 10, 2013

Keeping Her Baby After Rape, 14 Year Old Finds Hope Rejecting Abortion


PJ's story is more common than you may think. And her experience--of not getting a conviction, and the having to fight the rapist for child custody--is also more common than you think. Read PJ's for yourself here.

Isn't it time laws are changed to protect rape victims from the second trauma of having to fight her rapist for custody if she conceives as a result of the rape, and chooses to parent her baby!?!

13 Year Old Rape Victim Forced to Abort Her Baby

On a dark December day in 1997, 13-year-old Mary (not her real name) boarded a plane to England with a social worker and her foster mother. Today, Mary is a 29-year-old mother of two, but 16 years ago she was the teenage "Traveller" (a Traveller is an Irish ethnic group) at the center of the controversial C Case who was taken to the UK for an abortion by health board staff after being brutally raped. Now she wants answers...and healing...Read her story here.