Forced to Abort

David Reardon, Elliot Institute, author of  "Forced Abortion in America"

On September 27,2006, the Associated Press reported (Teen Forced to Drink Turpentine ) that police arrested the mother and two cousins of a pregnant 16-year-old girl for allegedly forcing the teen to drink turpentine in an attempt to induce an abortion.

Rozelletta B. Blackshire, 44, was charged with criminal abortion and first-degree cruelty to children, Columbus Police Sgt. Debra Bohannon said. The teen's cousins, Shonda Y. Blackshire, and Monica M. Johnson also were arrested late September of 2006 and charged with criminal abortion.

Bohannon said the girl's mother and cousins twice forced her to drink turpentine between Sept. 12 and Sept. 20. The arrests came after the girl told her school counselor of the attempted abortions.

The women might have wanted the teen to have an abortion because her pregnancy could have exacerbated an unrelated health problem, Bohannon said. 

Bohannon said the sex crimes unit was handling the case because they already were investigating a sexual assault case involving the pregnant teen. Investigators believe the girl conceived during that assault.

A series of news stories in the Fall of 2006 reported on the tragedy surrounding Katelyn Kampf:

In September of 2006, the report that two parents in Maine tied up their pregnant 19 year old daughter and drove her out of state in an attempt to force her to have an abortion because the father was black horrified the country.

Katelyn, told Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion that her mother "was pretty irate at the fact that the child's father was black, and she had made a number of disparaging remarks about that." Katelyn said her mother "kept referring to the baby as a thing, as 'It,' and there were other comments made."

According to paperwork filed with the court, Kampf said that she told her parents Sept. 15, 2006 that she was 20 weeks pregnant. She said they physically attacked her and tied her hands and feet with rope.

''They said they were going to force me to have an abortion in New York and threatened to kill me and themselves,'' (New York has a more liberal abortion law than Maine, allowing abortions until the 24th week of pregnancy.)

Nicholas and Lola Kampf of North Yarmouth,  Katelyn's parents were accused of forcing Katelyn into their car on Sept. 15, 2006, tying her hands and feet, and heading for New York with the goal of persuading or forcing her to have an abortion.

Katelyn made her escape while in Salem, N.H., when the family stopped at a Kmart so Nicholas Kampf could buy a cell phone, police said. Katelyn convinced her parents to let her out to go to the bathroom, and she darted into a nearby Staples and called for help on her father's cell phone, which she'd hidden from him, according to an affidavit. She was hysterical when police found her.

Police found the parents circling the parking lot and discovered rope, duct tape, scissors and a twenty-two caliber rifle in their car. Nicholas and Lola were arrested in the abduction.

The defense contends that there was no kidnapping and that the case is far different that the way it has been portrayed. Thomas Hallett, the parents' lawyer, said the parents learned the day before their arrest that their daughter was pregnant. They had packed their car for a trip to Florida, but their plans changed because of the pregnancy, he said.

In December of 2004, a case was brought against a California abortion clinic (California Case # 04CC03699) and abortionist Philip Rand. In the case, Rand allegedly performed an abortion on a woman without her knowledge. The woman alleges that she was a minor at the time of her pregnancy.

The victim alleged that she expressed to the baby’s father that she wanted to keep the baby. But, according to the woman, the baby’s father took her to the abortion clinic and told her it was for the purpose of prenatal care. She was instructed by the father to wait in the car.

The father went into the abortion clinic and paid for an abortion without her consent.

She alleges that she did not receive any counseling at the clinic. She stated that she did sign a consent form for the abortion without actually reading it, because she believed that it was for prenatal care. She was told to disrobe from the waist down and put her legs in the stirrups, then the doctor would come in to see her. She alleges that Rand entered the room and did not examine her or take her medical history, he just injected her with something that made her dizzy and began the abortion procedure. The next thing she recalled was being in the recovery room without any knowledge of what occurred.

The Chicago Tribune's article, Doctor charges with forcing abortion on handcuffed wife (4-30-1988), recounts the case of abortionist Theodor Lehrer who was accused of a forcing an abortion on his wife.

In 1988, a Ft. Lauderdale, Florida abortionist, Theodor Lehrer  was charged with sexual battery after he was accused by his pregnant wife of handcuffing her and forcing an abortion on her against her will. According to documents filed with the state's medical board.

The woman told authorities that she was 11 weeks pregnant, on the day that the her husband and abortion doctor came home and demanded to have sex with her. When she refused her husband's sexual advances,  he allegedly handcuffed his wife as she was lying in bed, took her into the bathroom and performed an abortion on her without anesthesia. Lehrer reportedly told her if she didn't stay still, he would inject her with something to calm her down, police said.

The hospital later confirmed that she had an abortion. The 52-year-old abortion doctor was arrested and it was reported in several local and national papers. His wife later dropped the charges on the basis that she was to sick to pursue prosecution. Lehrer is currently performing abortions at a clinic he owns in Ft. Lauderdale.

Dowis was accused of pointing a gun at her daughter's belly while at their Fort Pierce home, ordering Brittany into a car, picking up a family friend and driving  67 miles to the Aware Woman Medical (abortion) Clinic, just outside West Palm Beach. Glenda Dowis had made an appointment for her daughter at the clinic a week earlier when the daughter informed her that she was two months pregnant.

A .38-caliber revolver was found in Dowis' car.

According to the Palm Beach Post (Girl says mom tried to force her into abortion: 8/2/2000), Brittany Dowis told police her mother kept the gun under the front seat of the car during the drive but she saw her mother put it in her purse when they arrived at the abortion clinic. Police said Glenda Dowis may have returned the gun to the car after she brought her daughter into the building.

When he dropped her off, Fleuranvil said, ''I'll be seeing you again,'' and told her not to tell anyone.

When the school called her parents to verify the note, the real story came out. The girl said she didn't want to tell them what had happened because she was afraid of the man retaliating. The accused was well known to police and had done this before.

Police said that he befriended and impregnated several girls ages 11 to 15 since coming to the United States in 1993 and he has taken some of the girls to get abortions.

Florida's sexual offender and predator website shows that Fleuranvil was deported.

Florida State University's Center for the Advancement of Human Rights published a report called, Florida Responds to Human Trafficking. In the section, Child Victims of Trafficking Case Scenarios, they write about a victim by the name of Julie who began to run away from home in Orlando when she was 12. 

At the age of 13 a 15-year-old girl in a group home introduced Julie to a pimp. Julie agreed to prostitute herself for housing, food, and money. Later, Julie's 15 year-old friend was murdered. Julie knew the murder was because of the pimp.

The pimp began to move Julie around the state and out of fear, she felt compelled to comply or end up dead like her friend. When Julie was 14 she became pregnant and begged to quit. Julie wanted to go to a group home to have her baby.

Her pimp refused and forced her to have an abortion.

Julie’s pimp told her to call him her boyfriend when he took her to a nearby abortion clinic. The clinic nurse and abortionist asked her very few questions, according to the report. Julie’s pimp paid for her abortion and made Julie pay him back by working extra hours.

After the abortion, Julie became depressed and hopeless and experienced constant abdominal discomfort. Her pimp gave her crack cocaine and she became addicted. Months later Julie was arrested for trying to buy crack.

The Conservative Voice reported in a March 23, 2005 article, Mother arrested for attempting to intervene in her 14-year old's abortion, that a 14 year-old girl in Illinois was allegedly taken to an abortion clinic by the mother of the man allegedly to have impregnated the her.

According to the girl’s mother, a woman posing as the girl’s grandmother called her 14-year old daughter out of school in Madison County.

The woman took the girl from her home only minutes before the girl’s mother returned home from work. It was later determined that the woman who had posed as the "grandmother" to the school authorities was the mother of the male who had fathered the unborn child the 14-year old girl was carrying. The age of the male has not been released.

Angela Michaels, of Small Victories Ministry said, the 14-year old emerged from the clinic looking disheveled. The 14-year old told them that employees kept her in a quiet room until the procedure was performed and she was told that her mother had left. Employees assured this girl on her departure, "No-one would ever know you were here, we’ll bury your records."

New Hampshire assistant county attorney, Roger Chadwick accused a former counselor of the Massachusetts Fay A. Rotenberg School in North Chelmsford, of sexually assaulting a teen girl he counseled at the facility, according to the Nashua Daily News (Ex-city man accused of raping teen: 3/18/2003)

The Rotenberg School is a secure treatment facility for adolescent girls. Among the many allegations, the counselor was accused of using a broomstick to rape the teen in one incident and was charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault in others.

The report in the paper indicated that the victim was coerced into an abortion after the counselor impregnated her. She was allegedly taken to an abortion clinic in Concord, NH but was turned away when she told the staff that she was being pressured.

According to Chadwick, she was driven to a second abortion clinic in Lynn, MA. that performed the procedure, without asking any questions.

In October of 2005, a civil suit (Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County Civil Action case # L6857-05) was filed against the New Jersey Metropolitan Medical Associates abortion clinic and it’s abortionists, Nicholas Kotopoulos, Bruce Tisch, Constantine Binas, Keith Gresham and several others.

The suit alleges that the patient did not know that Metropolitan was an abortion facility and went there for an examination. Kotopoulos allegedly checked her to see if she was pregnant and he told the patient that she had been pregnant, but all that remained in her was "dead tissue" and he needed to remove it.

According to the suit, the lab test did confirm she was pregnant with a live fetus. The woman stated that she wanted to delay taking any action, but the abortionist was so forceful in insisting she have a D+C that day, that she allowed them to perform it.

When the clinic presented her a consent form for an abortion, the woman protested stating she did not want an abortion, and that she thought she was having a D+C to remove dead tissue. The suit alleges that at that point Kotopoulos or one of the other defendants informed her that they did not have a consent form for a D+C, and that she would have to sign the consent for an abortion.

The woman later realized that she was indeed pregnant with a live fetus as opposed to "dead tissue" when she had a ruptured tubal pregnancy and had to receive emergency treatment.

The woman sued the clinic for tricking her into an abortion.

Years after their abuse, two New Orleans women told investigators that their mother’s ex-boyfriend had raped them.

According to the Advocate (Authorities have arrested a Mississippi man in connection with the rape of two St. Tammany Parish teenagers 15 years ago: 11/22/1999), the man was living with their mother at the time and was the girls' primary caregiver from 1984 to 1991, when their mother worked to support the family. He allegedly abused them daily and threatened to kill the family if they told anyone.

One of the women told authorities she became pregnant twice by the accused at ages 15 and 16 and that he had arranged for abortions, to cover the rape.

Pack reportedly became enraged toward the woman who was seven weeks pregnant with his child. Prosecutors said Dr. Pack, who was married, asked Ms. Schepis to have an abortion. She refused and told him she would take care of the baby without his support. Pack ordered methotrexate, a labor-inducing drug that works like RU-486, and filled two syringes with it and attacked Ms. Schepis in the hospital's parking lot:

Witnesses told reporters that they saw Pack stab his the nurse repeatedly with a syringe, yelling, "Are you going to have an abortion or not?" she reportedly replied "No."

He then yelled out,  "I'm going to give you an abortion!"

The NY State Board of Professional Medical Conduct in it's investigation stated that Pack "administered an injunction of methotrexate to a patient who did not seek or consent to an injection".

Pack pleaded guilty to assault and abortion charges and was sentenced to two years in prison. If the case had gone to trial, he could have faced up to seven years in prison.

The Associated Press reported (Committee approves abortion ban: 2/17/2006) that Carrie Sanchez, of Sioux Falls, told a state committee hearing testimony on abortion that when she became pregnant at 21, her parents urged her to get an abortion but she changed her mind after getting to the abortion clinic.

She testified that a nurse took her to see the doctor, and before she knew it, a needle was stuck in her arm and she later awoke to find that the procedure had been done.

"When I woke up, I had had an abortion. Before I left there, a nurse asked me if there was anything she could get for me, and I said, `Is it done?,' and she told me, `Yes,' and I said, `Well, yes ma'am. You can get a gun for me because I can't bear to walk out of here,'" Sanchez said.

The website AbortionConcern.org has the story of  "Rebecca:"

(The boyfriend), who had already evidenced his instability when he fell to the ground trembling, now became more unstable and abusive, threatening to kill the baby and me if I had it. I told him I would leave the state. He said he had ways to find us, and would track us down. I tried desperately to find a home for unwed mothers.

Meanwhile, the boyfriend scheduled an abortion at a clinic. I told the clinic I did not want the abortion.

The clinic counselor told me the baby was not a baby, and that it was the size of my fingernail. I told her I had studied biology, and that my fetus was several inches long. She gave me no support, and had no clue."

The Elliot Institute (AfterAbortion.org), reported the case of "Doris Kalasky" in their study, Accomplices in Incest Case Study.

Doris  was raped, and her parents forced her to have an abortion.

She writes, "My father flew into a rage, accusing me of all sorts of things, and demanding I have an abortion. The doctor informed me that I was pregnant and asked me what I wanted. In spite of the pain and guilt I felt, knowing who the father of the baby was, it was far better to have a baby than the alternative - to kill it. I refused to have an abortion.

My father flew into an uncontrollable rage and demanded that I consent to the abortion, or that the doctor do it with or without my permission. The doctor refused because of my wishes. My father demanded that an abortionist be found - regardless of the cost. Within one hour, this man arrived at the hospital, talked with my parents and decided to do the abortion, without speaking to me.

I refused and tried to get off the examining table. He then asked three nurses to hold me while he strapped me to the bed and injected me with a muscle relaxant to keep me from struggling while he prepared to kill my baby. I continued to scream that I didn't want an abortion.

He told me, "Shut up and quit that yelling!" Eventually, I was placed under general anesthesia and my child was brutally killed."

On August 1, 2006, the Abortion Clinic Days (abortionclinicdays.blogs.com) website, posted this story under the heading: Blowing it:

"She is 15 and came with her grandmother. Right from the get-go she said that she was not going to have an abortion, which was OK with me, but someone clearly thought that she would because she made an appointment for one...The story was tiresomely ordinary, I am sorry to report.

Her partner is older, and you could argue statutory rape except that the mother said it was OK for him to live with her for a while. Still, that was the gun to Samantha's head-- if she didn't have the abortion the mother was going to put him in jail for statutory rape. According to the grandmother he stole Samantha's money, was into drugs, had no job, and was generally "bad news." Samantha herself didn't really have too many illusions about him but she also couldn't think much about it since her mother had banished him and he was already in jail for a parole violation. Still, the statutory rape charges were not concerning her much; maybe she sensed that her mother was bluffing."

She was adamant that abortion was murder and she wasn't going to do that, no matter what anyone said. But the consequences of that were not only the boyfriend possibly going to jail, but more importantly, that she would no longer be welcome at her mother's house--her home in other words. Her mother's new boyfriend hated her and her mother wanted her out anyway. The situation seemed to work out for everyone's agenda except this 15 year old. That left Samantha trolling for love, and a place to stay, for her and her baby."

Newsday reported ( Danger Cited In Suspension Of Queens Doc: 11/17/1990 ) that  New York abortionist Ming Kow Hah of Queens New York had his medical license revoked in two states and was suspended from practicing in New York after the state health commissioner said his continued practice, "constitutes an imminent danger to the health of the people of this state."

In one case, Hah was cited for performing an operation without obtaining the patient's consent, performing a procedure without medical justification, administering drugs in excessive amounts, and failing to perform or order appropriate tests prior to performing procedures.

In March of 2002, a case ( # CJ 2002 01268-District Court of Oklahoma) was filed against Oklahoma abortionist Jay Weinstein. The case was brought by a women who claimed that Weinstein performed an abortion on her against her will.  The accuser was a minor at the time of the abortion and she alleges that her stepmother brought her to Weinstein against her will. The patient was about 10 weeks pregnant.

The attorneys argued that Weinstein should have determined that the girl was at the abortion clinic against her will. At the time of the abortion the girl refused to allow Weinstein to examine her, but Weinstein did so anyway the request of her stepmother. Weinstein then allegedly performed an abortion on her against her will.

On the comments section of a Catholic website, DeoOmnisGloria.com John B. posted, (Desperate Pro-Abortionists, April 23, 2004 05:35 PM ),

"I was a 14-year-old who was two months pregnant by a 16-year-old boy. I got the nerve to call my mother, who was at work, and told her. She reacted pretty calm, but I guess she already knew.

It was a Monday and time to tell my father. My mother and I went into the bedroom and she sat down and said, "she’s pregnant." My father looked at me with such pain in his eyes and he grabbed his keys and left. When he came back, he told me to go lay down and he would come talk to me later.

When my father came upstairs, he told me that my mother was taken me to a clinic the next day to get an abortion.

He said he didn’t want to risk me having complications and that I was too young to be a mother; I can’t really blame him. For the first time, I rubbed my stomach knowing my baby was in there. The next day my mother and I went to a clinic and I was getting ready to do something that had never crossed my mind before. We went in for the ultrasound and I saw my baby; he was so beautiful.

For some reason, I always said I had a boy, just a feeling I had I guess. They made it a two-day process because of my age. The next day, they did another ultrasound and continued with the process. Laying there listening to someone suck your baby out of you, it’s pure hell. I hated every minute of it. And on top of that, they had plenty of ultrasound pictures and two that were exactly the same, but they wouldn’t let me keep one; I remember crying all the way home.