{"id":19561,"date":"2010-05-05T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T09:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/did_dhs_pressure_teen_to_get_abortion\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T09:03:31","slug":"did_dhs_pressure_teen_to_get_abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19561","title":{"rendered":"Did DHS in Pennsylvania pressure teen to get abortion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Department OF Human Services caseworker pressured a pregnant Mayfair teenager to undergo a late-term abortion by threatening to take away either her toddler or her unborn baby if she had the child, according to the teen&#8217;s foster mother.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged strong-arm tactic happened one day after DHS learned of the pregnancy, when the girl was about 22 weeks pregnant, according to her foster mother and the girl&#8217;s social worker, Marisol Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>The foster mother did not want to be identified in order to protect the girl&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News also learned that:<\/p>\n<p>* DHS got a Family Court judge&#8217;s order allowing it to take the girl for an abortion, after the girl&#8217;s birth mother refused to approve the procedure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/homepage\/92649094.html?cmpid=15585797\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Department OF Human Services caseworker pressured a pregnant Mayfair teenager to undergo a late-term abortion by threatening to take away either her toddler or her unborn baby if she had the child, according to the teen&#8217;s foster mother. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19561\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,168,104,96,98,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}