What Have We Come to When a Girl Barely Out of Childhood Can Have an Abortion While Her Parents Are Deliberately Kept in the Dark by Doctors?

Daily MailFebruary 11, 2004

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THE POIGNANT, handwritten diary entry in its childish, rounded letters says it all. 'I had my termanation.' Then, in brackets underneath: '(killed my baby)'.

Through these few words, one can only guess at the turmoil in the mind of this 15-year-old girl as she struggled to come to terms with what she had done.

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What Have We Come to When a Girl Barely Out of Childhood Can Have an Abortion While Her Parents Are Deliberately Kept in the Dark by Doctors?

After noting the event in the impersonal jargon used by the professionals who handled her case, she revealed in childishly simple terms (complete with the misspelling of termination) how it felt to her. Not a 'termanation', but 'killing my baby'.

Tragic as this was, the really appalling thing was her isolation from her parents. In need of adu...

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