Did DHS pressure teen to get abortion? | Philadelphia Daily News | 05/03/2010.
The attempt to squelch this story indicates that it is true.
A 16 year old foster child, pregnant for the second time, is said to have been told that her first child would be taken from her if she did not get a late term abortion. According to the news report, this claim comes from her foster mother and her social worker, formerly employed by Concilio and subcontracted by DHS.
The girl was eventually taken from school to a clinic in New Jersey because abortions at 24 weeks are not permitted in Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphia daily news gives a detailed coverage of this story, and VERY IMPORTANTLY, notes the attempt by the Dept of Human Services to have the story squelched.
This story is spreading fast in the prolife news venues, but hasn’t been spotted by the Pharmer on national wires yet.
The long report is worth reading for the main story of abortion coercion, the claim that the social worker, Marisol Rivera, was fired for refusing to take the girl for an abortion, and some DHS statistics enumerating the abortions in which they have played a role.
