{"id":1014,"date":"2008-11-07T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/pressure-to-have-abortion-can-be-tremendous\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:40:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:40:35","slug":"pressure-to-have-abortion-can-be-tremendous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/pressure-to-have-abortion-can-be-tremendous\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure to have abortion can be tremendous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think women\/young girls are the victims of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure to have an abortion is overwhelming &#8230;. &#8220;I&#8217;m only 16. I&#8217;m scared. My boyfriend doesn&#8217;t want the baby. My counselor will provide a ride to an abortion clinic. My parents are expecting me to go to college. My mom will pay for the abortion. The baby is defective. Having a baby right now would be embarrassing&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is a rush\/pressure cooker decision to make. Who is strong enough to endure that?<\/p>\n<p>Post abortive women\/young girls may try to filter out the pro-life message for the rest of their life.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-lifers feel a profound deep sorrow and forgiveness for choices\/abortions. I support the Des Moines Pregnancy Aid program (206-878-3770.)  Pregnancy Aid offers free baby supplies: diapers, wipes, bottles, formula, clothes&#8230;to any one.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there is a network of transitional housing offered to pregnant young women.<\/p>\n<p>For a list of transitional housing opportunities, contact Birthright at 206-957-7790.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mary Locke<\/p>\n<p>Federal Way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think women\/young girls are the victims of abortion.<br \/>\nThe pressure to have an abortion is overwhelming &#8230;. &#8220;I&#8217;m only 16. I&#8217;m scared. My boyfriend doesn&#8217;t want the baby. My counselor will provide a ride to an abortion clinic. My parents are expecting me to go to college. My mom will pay for the abortion. The baby is defective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}