Friday February 21, 2003

STUDENT ABORTS BABY IN SCHOOL WASHROOM

HOUSTON, February 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A junior high school student in Texas aborted her second-trimester unborn baby in a school washroom this week after taking an abortifacient pill that was given to her by her boyfriend's sister.

A school district spokesman said the student, believed to be 13 or 14 years old, was 16 to 18 weeks pregnant when she took the pill. Texas law requires health care providers to notify the parents of a girl under 18 before any kind of abortion. But the requirement of parental notification is on the physician performing the abortion or prescribing the pills, not the girl. In this case, the pill seems to have been passed on to the girl by a third party.

Police took the dead unborn child to the county medical examiner's office. Under Roe v. Wade, a second-trimester fetus is not considered a person and thus has few legal protections, reports stated.

For local coverage:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/1787044

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