{"id":285763,"date":"2023-02-22T14:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T20:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=285763"},"modified":"2023-02-21T18:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T00:36:44","slug":"parents-sue-abortion-staff-pressured-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/parents-sue-abortion-staff-pressured-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents sue abortion facility, claiming staff pressured teen daughter into abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Virginia family is suing<\/a> Bristol Women’s Health and Dickenson County\u2019s Department of Social Services (DSS) for allegedly pressuring their 15-year-old daughter to undergo an abortion.<\/p>\n

According to the lawsuit, the 15-year-old girl was three months pregnant, and was\u00a0pressured<\/a> into having an abortion by a DSS employee. Additionally, the abortion was kept secret from her parents, as the DSS director retroactively worked to get a judicial bypass put into place. The child was then taken to Bristol Women’s Health, where she was subjected to a chemical abortion (the abortion pill regimen).<\/p>\n

The child is also listed as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, along with her parents. The lawsuit stated that the girl \u201cintended to take her child to full term and intended to deliver her baby at the appropriate time.\u201d Yet a DSS employee repeatedly told her to have an abortion and set up the appointment for her, even though the girl \u201cremained upset throughout the process, and initially refused to cooperate with any abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n