{"id":295369,"date":"2023-07-27T06:40:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T11:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=295369"},"modified":"2023-07-25T20:14:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T01:14:45","slug":"16-year-old-and-her-baby-maimed-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/16-year-old-and-her-baby-maimed-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old and her baby left maimed after botched chemical abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 16-year-old girl who was impregnated by a 21-year-old man was given abortion pills by a New York abortion facility… only for the abortion to fail, leaving both mother and baby with lifelong injuries.<\/p>\n

The Washington Stand reported<\/a> that the unnamed girl underwent two abortions at the Choices Women\u2019s Medical Center in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, according to legal documents the site obtained. The first abortion was a dilation and evacuation (D&E) in 2017 at the age of 15 after getting pregnant with her 20-year-old boyfriend. In 2018, she underwent her second abortion; this time, she was 16, and her boyfriend was 21. The facility noted both of their ages in the paperwork, but merely noted that “she was not pressured or forced to have sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the state of New York, the age of consent<\/a> is 17, but authorities were seemingly not contacted.<\/p>\n

This time, in her second abortion, the teenager was eight weeks pregnant, and given abortion pills. She took the first pill at the facility, and the second pill at home, as instructed. In a follow-up visit one month later, staffers said she tested positive for HIV\/AIDS, which she does not have, but did not confirm that the abortion was completed. It wasn’t for another three months that she realized her preborn child had survived.<\/p>\n