The media spin on the birth of a “closet baby” suggests that teenagers can be unaware of their pregnancies for long periods and may engage in denial of reality until it is “too late.” Teenage “denial” is often blamed for late-term abortions. The argument goes that teenagers have trouble confronting the reality of their problem and so fail to seek an earlier, “safer” abortion. Because of this “denial” problem, pro-abortionists argue, we must keep late term abortions available for these “messed up” kids.
Certainly it is not uncommon for teenage mothers to go through short periods of denial about a pregnancy, desperately hoping that “my period is just late.” But of the thousands of testimonies I have collected, in every case where a teenager had a late term abortion, not one stated that she didn’t realize or couldn’t accept that she was pregnant. Instead, they all indicated that they deliberately concealed their pregnancies in the hope that by the time their parents discovered the truth, it would be “too late” to have an abortion.
Unfortunately, these young women discovered, it is never “too late” to get an abortion in America. Their abortions were either forced or carried out under duress. From this viewpoint, late-term teenage abortions are not due to teenage denial, but rather to parental abuse. David Reardon
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