Voices for Life : Center Against Forced Abortions

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

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