Pregnant Teen Fights Against Coercive Abortion and Losing Her Baby
Source: Agape Press; March 9, 2001

Delaware -- The American Family Association's Center for Law & Policy is
promising to fight state officials in Delaware who want a pregnant
teenager to either have an abortion or give up her baby.

The 16-year-old girl is three months pregnant and in foster care. Social
workers in Delaware allegedly tried to coerce the young woman into having
an abortion against her will. State officials are now allegedly
threatening to take custody of the baby after it is born.

Michael DePrimo is an attorney with the AFA Center for Law & Policy. He
says the state has even tried to keep the teenager from talking with AFA
attorneys.

"This young woman has the right to an attorney of her choice," DePrimo
says, "and to prevent her from talking with her attorney raises very, very
serious ethical questions."

DePrimo says the girl's foster parents and natural parents are both in
favor of her having and keeping the baby.