If you have never heard of them, you should become familiar with wonderful work of The Justice Foundation.
One of their main ministries is Operation Outcry which exposes the truth of the harm of abortion, especially through the testimonies of women and men. The declarations of Operation Outcry women have been instrumental in legislation, including cases at the Supreme Court.
If you have not filled out a Declaration, please consider doing so. If you do not want your name public, you can specify that.
Another great resource is Center Against Forced Abortion, which provides letters to those who feel they are been coerced into abortion by parents. As someone who experienced just that, I am so happy to see this resource available. Let's do what we can to get this information out to Crisis Pregnancy Centers and others and let those being coerced know they are not alone.
Below is an excerpt from The Justice Foundation website:
The Justice Foundation’s “Center Against Forced Abortions” or “CAFA” was created to provide legal resources to mothers who are being forced or coerced into an unwanted abortion.
To download resources to help mothers who are being forced to have abortions, click on links below:
- Dear Parent Letter
- Dear Parent Letter – Heartbeat
- Dear Client Letter
- Life Dynamics Fax to Abortionist
- Dear Father Letter
- Dear Parent Letter (Spanish)
For more information or to talk to a lawyer, call (210) 614-7157 or email [email protected]
Problem
- Many teenage girls are being coerced into abortion by their parents
- Pregnancy resource centers are generally unequipped to help legally defend these clients, and subsequently coerced abortions occur
- Even under Roe v. Wade, the decision to keep the child is supposedly the woman’s alone, so theseyoung women’s rights are being violated when they are coerced into abortion
Response
- The Justice Foundation has created a “Dear Parent Letter,” which (in a friendly, helpful, and serious manner) informs the teen mother’s parents that they could be guilty of illegal actions if they force their daughter to have an abortion
- Combined with Life Dynamics’s Letter to Abortionists, which is a signed statement indicating the mother’s non-consent to an abortion, the two documents form a powerful legal defense that empowers the teen mother to stand for her child
Effectiveness
- Gives pregnancy centers a proven strategy to defend teens from parentally coerced abortions
- Equips the teen mother with legal documents empowering her decision to keep her child
- Trial distributions indicate the strategy is very effective (testimonies below)
- If just one baby is saved at two out of every three pregnancy resource centers that receive the letter and training, then CAFA will facilitate the protection of 2,000 babies lives
