Parents in Maine reportedly kidnapped their 19 year old adult daughter, bound and gagged her; in a kidnapping attempt aimed at forcing her into a late term abortion. This is really, really going to piss off the pro-choice and pro-life advocates. This is NO-choice and “baby murder” rolled all into one. How many people can you possibly offend at once??

My guess is that these parent’s won’t be getting many holiday cards this year.

From Reuters:

BOSTON (Reuters) - Police charged a Maine couple on Monday of kidnapping their pregnant 19-year-old daughter, who was bound with rope and duct tape and bundled into her parents’ car to force her to have an emergency abortion.

Nicholas Kampf, 54, and his wife, Lola, 53, were arrested on Friday in a New Hampshire parking lot after their daughter Katelyn escaped by persuading her parents to untie her so she could use a Kmart bathroom.

A court affidavit said her parents chased her out into the yard after an altercation, grabbed and tied her hands and feet together. Her father then gagged her and carried her to their Lexus and they drove toward New Hampshire.

“The case facts are somewhat bizarre,” aid Mark Dion of Maine’s Cumberland County Police Department, which is involved in the investigation. “It is a bit of a shock.”

He said the Kampfs, who were arraigned in New Hampshire’s Salem District Court on Monday on kidnapping charges and held on bail of $100,000 each, appeared to have been angry that their daughter was pregnant by a man who is now in jail.

UPDATE: Jay over at Parents Behaving Badly found another disturbing nugget that wasn’t in the original story. Apparently the mother “was pretty irate at the fact that the child’s father was black, and she had made a number of disparaging remarks about that”, which may have been their motivation for the kidnapping. What a couple of fine individuals.

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Although I understand social stigma’s and medical resources vary, to terminate your infant at 6 months gestation simply because you think they’re not pretty enough brings a pathetic moral implication to an already controversial debate. There is no question, the baby was in excruciating pain at that point of development. What makes me even more sad is that there are those whose politics come before their morality and desire to protect these babies.

My son was born two months premature. Perhaps that is why I will never understand or condone late term abortions or think of them as victorious to women’s advancement. I think they are a sad indictment of women in general and people in general. People who are without compassion and ability to protect the innocent.

I am no pro-lifer, in fact, I support a woman’s right to choose in the first trimester, but I will never, ever sacrifice my moral compass and desire to protect babies who’s only fault in this world is having a horrible person as a mother, that they would allow their infant to be tortured and killed because of the way they will look. It’s absolutely grotesque.

And the morning after pill isn’t even going to prevent women without heart from doing this to their late-term babies. Of course, if it is determined that the baby or mother’s life is in jeopardy, that is one thing, to do this based on aesthetics is quite another.

Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) — A woman who has posted in her Internet diary a notation about having an abortion on a baby with a cleft lip is coming under international scrutiny. Both Chinese and American media outlets have written about the woman and the condemnation that has followed the abortion.
The woman says she had an abortion six months into pregnancy of a health baby with no other physical problems other than a cleft lip — which can be surgically repaired in what has become a routine medical procedure.

“I am totally and utterly distressed at the thought of my baby mumbling and stuttering the way my niece does who also has a harelip. I cannot find a way out,” the woman wrote originally on her diary, according to the China Daily news service.

She also wrote of the ultrasound she had done and the pictures she saw of her baby.

“It was the first time I had ever seen the lovely creature who has accompanied me for six months as I lay on a hospital bed for a check up. He is so cute. Sometimes he stretches, sometimes he gapes, and sometimes he sucks his little fingers. However it makes me shiver to see a cleft, ranging from 3 to 7 millimeters in his upper lip,” she wrote the next day.

The unnamed woman says she asked her parents and husband what to do and decided to have the abortion.

“I called my husband, parents, brother and friends. To my surprise, they also thought I should have an abortion. Finally I made up my mind to give him up,” she wrote, according to China Daily.

Numerous people have posted comments in reaction to the woman’s story saying they strongly disagree with her decision to have an abortion.

One poster, Dr. Zhang Silai, wrote that “Being a doctor, I don’t agree with Fish, since a harelip is not incurable and a life shouldn’t be terminated for such a tiny defect.” Read the rest…

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