Did DHS pressure teen to get abortion?

Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 05/03/2010 | REGINA MEDINA

[Kid Shelleen]

A DEPARTMENT OF Human Services caseworker pressured a pregnant Mayfair teenager to undergo a late-term abortion by threatening to take away either her toddler or her unborn baby if she had the child, according to the teen's foster mother.

The alleged strong-arm tactic happened one day after DHS learned of the pregnancy, when the girl was about 22 weeks pregnant, according to her foster mother and the girl's social worker, Marisol Rivera

[Tribune7]

ping

[camle]

the ‘teenager’ already had a toddler?

[driftdiver]

So a govt agency pushes for the late term abortion of a baby and your main concern is the age of the mother?

[mockingbyrd]

Between September 2006 and March 31, Schwarz said, 335 minors under DHS care became pregnant. Of those, 119 resulted in abortions. Of those abortions, 54 were done by judge's order.

Judge's order? JUDGE'S ORDER? How is that even possible? I thought abortion was between a woman and her doctor and the government was supposed to stay out. Last time I checked, the judiciary was a branch of the government.

[camle]

not at all, I just woindered why it was ok for teen-mom to have the first kid, but not the second. I’m confused.

[dalebert]

late term ...

[patriotUSA]

DHS = Department of Homeland Security.

HHS = Health and Human Services.

Reporter and editor = dorks.

[ScottinVA]

Did I miss something about a birth defect that the proborts claim is the “reason” for LTAs? I didn’t read anything about that? Was this just a judge’s whim?

[Bob]

DHS = Department of Homeland Security.

At the federal level, that's true. Various states, though, have different names for their Human Services operations. It's quite likely that Pennsylvania calls theirs the Department of Human Services and abbreviates it DHS.

[Pollster1]

The story starts, "A DEPARTMENT OF Human Services caseworker . . . so I'm guessing you're right.

[Sudetenland]

Brown and the others at that facility are precisely the type of people who need to be taken out and shot.

She is as much a serial killer as John Wayne Gacy. It's just that her victims aren't protected by our disgraceful government.

[heartwood]

I heard a few stories like this when I volunteered for a crisis pregnancy center in Boston. Some of these workers make a judgement that a girl with a dysfunctional life has no business bringing a baby into it, to make her life even harder and to produce another messed-up generation - so they tighten the screws.

Or such is the story that dysfunctional, manipulative girls sometimes tell. Some of time it is probably true.

[cvetic]

The judge didn’t order the abortion to be performed, but rather gave permission for the abortion in the absence of the parent’s consent. Abortions typically are between women and their doctors, but inevitably the extension of individual rights to minors is a gray area.

[patriotUSA]

I suspect you are correct. Thank you.

Reporter and Editor = maybe not dorks.

PatriotUSA = maybe dork.

[driftdiver]

“not at all, I just woindered why it was ok for teen-mom to have the first kid, but not the second. I’m confused.”

Sorry I misunderstood your post then. That part confused me as well.

[Smogger]

I damning piece that I am bumping to the frontpage. Read also here:

DHS, Concilio and the full-court press against this story

[nina0113]

One of my relatives delivered the 8th child of a 20-year-old welfare mother. No twins, you do the math.

[reader25]

No surprise here! What is amazing is that it actually made the news.

[a fool in paradise]

But we really shouldn’t call them death panels, right?

A woman’s right to choose? Right?

“Keep Your Laws Off Of My Body”? Right?

The Left are such lying hypocrites.