The 13 year old raped girl who might have a defective baby

In my previous post, I started to write I always advise against abortion, and often spend hours counselling and arranging care and social services for women with problem pregnancies.

But two posts down, I note that the college girls don't even see me, they abort...and that some women almost diabolically reject any advice.

But the pro aborts always argue: What about the 13 year old raped girl expecting a defective baby...there are always exceptions....

Well, about half of the 13 year olds I diagnosed actually carried the child to term...even though I counseled and did referrals to a prolife social worker.

But once I referred to a secular psyciatrist who I knew would recommend termination.

This was 30 years ago, when abortion was newly legal in our state.

The story started on New Year's morning, when we were all called to the ER for a stabbing...
One woman had been stabbed to death during an argument, and the police brought in the body, and arrested the perpetrator, who was drunk and incoherent...but when they went back to find evidence, they found another lady stabbed and critical in the bathroom that no one had noticed...We revived and flew this second lady out for surgery, but she had been in hypovolemic shock for so long she ended up with brain damage in our nursing home.

Three months later, I saw the child of the dead woman in the Emergency room with a Tegretol overdose...we treated her, and she lived...but afterward, we found she was 8 weeks pregnant...
hence the overdose.

The child at the time was living with her grandfather...mom had been killed, but mom was a hopeless alcoholic, so like many families, she was taken in and raised by her grandparents...but grandmom had died the year before...so granddad supported her...but her main emotional support was from her aunt...the one now in the nursing home with severe brain damage...

Now, by definition, any 13 year old who is pregnant was raped...we never did find the dad...

But mom had epilepsy, which automatically increases the defect rate. And tegretol even in normal doses has a small but definite malformation rate...and the girl had been drinking and smoking and taking who knows what since her aunt was stabbed and mom died...

So we referred her to a secular inpatient psychiatric center for evaluation, and advised the grandfather that they would probably advise abortion...

And they did. But mom refused, and granddad refused.

So six months later, she had a beautiful, normal baby boy...

And every time she brought him to baby clinic, she showed me the child, smiled, and said: See, he's okay. And you wanted me to kill him...

So much for abortion...

But, you know, even if he had been retarded or handicapped, the family, despite the dysfunction, would have tried to care for him...

Which is why I prefered to work with poor people rather than with an HMO...those who are imperfect tend to accept the good and bad in life...including their imperfect children.