Taranaki mother Hillary Keift braved Parliament to tell how she found her
teenage daughter hanging from the rafters in the car shed after a covert
abortion which resulted in infertility for life.
And the select committee were “sympathetic”. That’s nice. But they
say if girls have to tell their parents they’re pregnant they might be harmed.
Really? Did they actually compare the statistical possibility of such a sinister
scenario (incestuous, violent father/brother + absent or brutish mother) with
the likelihood of a botched abortion? More chance of harm from an abortion
surely, than from parents.
There are about 280 under-sixteen abortions a year - five times more than
the committee stated. And Family Planning’s Jackie Edmond has said that 25
% don’t tell their parents. So in the last ten years about 700 girls have
secretly had an abortion.
The committee thinks organisations like Family Planning – who are
responsible for Hillary’s daughter’s infertility – can be trusted to ensure such
a tragedy doesn’t recur. Family Planning is in the business of selling teenagers
contraceptives so they can have safe sex, and then referring them for
taxpayer-funded abortions when it turns out to be unsafe.
How trustworthy is that?
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