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Okay, wasn't gonna reply. But, decided to reply to the part of the legal issue.

It is illegal. A parent cannot force their child to have an abortion. If a doctor performed the sugery without the patients consent, then he needs to have his medical license pulled.

However, if the parents guilted or manipulated their daughter into signing the papers, what they did was morally wrong, but not illegal. If she signed the papers, she gave consent. The doctors talk to the patients alone, as required my law, and ask them if they are being forced. She should have been given several opportunities to confide in the doctors or nurses that it was not her wish. Now if the clinic never asked when they had her away from her parents, then they are in the wrong and it could be deemed illegal. If they did ask her and she chose to keep her mouth shut, then it was a legal abortion.


EDIT: Also, the father of the child has no rights to the baby, if the mother choses to abort the baby. It is her body and that is why it is called "Women's Choice".