Saturday, May 1, 2010

April is overheard telling Frank, "I became pregnant at the age of seventeen, but my boyfriend had said he couldn't take on that kind of responsibility. We were both in High School at the time; and his parents had high hopes for him to go to college. So, I lied to my parents and told them I'd been raped. They immediately insisted that I have an abortion!"

Frank sounds surprised, "And your parents thought that was a good enough reason to have an abortion? Aren't your parents Christians?"

April appears confused, "Well, yeah, but don't most Christians feel abortion is okay in the case of rape?"

Frank hesitates, "Well, I guess so! My parents are Christians too. And my family had to deal with that very same thing! My sister was raped. My parents tried to convince her to have an abortion, but my sister got angry with them. She said that of all people, she expected her own parents to support her. She said if no one else cared about her baby, she would stand alone. But one thing for sure, she was the victim of an act of violence, to which she was not going to respond by committing another terrible act of violence, insanely upon her poor innocent ...and defenseless baby. She said that would only enable the rapist to hurt her twice ...and she was not about to let that happen!"

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