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Parents walk in kidnap/forced abortion plea deal
Before he was born, his mother says, the little boy pictured in this link was kidnapped and nearly aborted. But the abductors — the child’s grandparents – dodged serious charges in a plea deal that has them promising to go to counseling:
A judge approved a plea deal Friday allowing a couple to escape jail time for tying up their pregnant daughter and taking her out of state, allegedly in hopes of persuading her to have an abortion.
Katelyn Kampf, 20, spoke out against the plea agreement in a tense hearing at which she and her parents avoided eye contact.
The parents, Nicholas and Lola Kampf, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct charges….The Kampfs were accused of tying up their then-19-year-old daughter in September 2006 at their home in North Yarmouth, Maine, forcing her into their car and heading toward New York for an abortion.
They were arrested at a shopping center in New Hampshire after their young woman fled and called police. Police found a .22-caliber rifle, duct tape and rope in the car.
Katelyn Kampf had said earlier this week that she would oppose the agreement because “what I’ve been looking for is some sort of justice.” She contends her parents were angry that she and her boyfriend, who is black, were expecting a mixed-race baby.
Disgusting.
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This brings “coerced abortion” to a new level.
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They aren’t pro-abortion; they’re pro-choice.
Is it ironic that their name is “Kampf”?
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I have a friend who was taken against her will to an abortion clinic by her father. They asked her if she wanted the abortion. She refused to answer and was given the abortion anyway. She is still married to the father and they have a nearly grown daughter. Later in her life she got pregnant again while in remission from cancer. Her doctor told her if she didn’t get an abortion he would drop her as a patient. She got the abortion. As it turned to she not only stayed in remission long enough to have had the baby, she could have easily gotten him well into grammar school. I’m sure she was not the first or the last girl who didn’t get a “choice”.
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KBells, I presume that many abortions are not strictly by “choice.”
A friend of mine in college felt pressured into an abortion by her parents. I didn’t know about it until the day she was going to the bus station to go and get the procedure. She cried her eyes out at the prospect but couldn’t see anyway out of it, as she still felt that she needed her parents’ financial support.
This is why I think that many women who obtain abortions are victims themselves.
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So it was the fear, pride and ego based race card being plaid by the parents in the end and the legal system agreed with their behavior. I am torn as to who is more insane, the parents or the legal system.
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Well they obviously didn’t tie her up very well!
ok…enough black humor. Lynn’s right. Sick story; they are nut jobs. Won’t comment on the plea deal though, not sure if they deserve 52 months (average served for kidnapping) for being dumb. It’s not like they could have actually gone into a clinic with a tied up woman and had her baby aborted…
at least not without driving father than New York.
Last one, I swear!
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Would a pro-choicer care to comment on how a young woman is often pressured by others to get an abortion that deep-down she doesn’t want? Wouldn’t a better “choice” be a free and totally informed choice, in which she is given other options than just abortion?
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Kyle, since the reason pro-choicers are in fact pro-choice is due to the high value they place on personal autonomy, I doubt any of them would object to a free and totally informed choice, so long as all the information was presented in an objective manner.
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Yes, Kyle, I will.
You can legislate away social pressure or the influence of someones friends or family.
If your goal is true emancipation for women in decision making that over comes social forces and family expectations, well…start backing title 9, set up a women’s resource center, promote a woman at work, stay home with your kids instead of her, march to maintain Roe, and vote for Hillary!
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Sorry, more evidence for reinstating a preview,
Obvious you CAN’T legislate away social pressure or the influence of someones friends or family!
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Luke and Stephen, explain why pro-choice people have tended not to back informed consent laws? Why are they ususally against sonograms so that girls can see what they are doing away with and with a description of the “procedure” and information about the after-effects? Why have they tended not to want Planned Parenthood to provide all options rather than just one?
Luke, you can’t legislate away that pressure, but how about more education on adoption and keeping a baby? What about a requirement that abortion providers give girls information and time to reflect on their decision? (As we do when buying guns!)
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Because democratized information means you can’t force people to be informed anymore than you can cordon off knowledge.
If ultrasounds are so great, won’t your fabulous free market create a brand of abortion clinics that have ultrasounds? Would that solve you’re gripe? Cause I don’t think it would. I don’t think the “informed consent” crowd has any interest in informing anyone.
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I think most abortion clinics have ultrasound machines; they often use them to determine fetal age since that makes a difference what form of abortion they perform(and how much they charge).
I recently spoke with a woman, however, who called our PCC because Planned Parenthood wouldn’t let her see the ultrasound, even though she paid for it, and kept trying to make an appointment for her to have a “procedure,” even though she stated she didn’t want to abort.
To be fair, last year that same PP also let a girl off the table who screamed, “I can’t go through with this.” They made her another appointment for a week later and when the same thing happened, they let her go again. She had learned her lesson the second time, and came to our PCC–where she is getting support as she carries her child to term.
Studies have shown many women abort because someone important in their life is pressuring them–usually a parent or the baby’s father. Studies also have shown that just a little support is often enough to “tip the scales” for a woman to carry her child to term. I don’t believe most women want to abort–I think most understand what they are doing–but often they don’t feel they have any other choice.
Which, in my opinion, is why crisis pregnancy centers are so important. We listen, explain their options and let them go, telling them no matter what they chose to do, they can always come back. We’d prefer they not terminate their pregnancies, but if they do, they are still welcome to return and we will weep with them. And help them find their way back to forgiveness and a full life.
In the original story, the parents weren’t honoring their daughter’s choices in life. She was an adult, however, and their actions were plain wrong. Unfortunately, I’ve heard too many stories of young women screaming at abortion clinics that they don’t want to abort, only to have stone-faced relatives or boyfriends insist they must. Who’s chosing then?
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