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Imagine being 13, raped by your father or stepfather, becoming pregnant, and having your mother deny you (a lot of instances kick you out) and your father/stepfather notified that you are at the abortion clinic. Let's force you to be brought back home by said parents and forced to give birth. You can't finish school, then everyone would know...your mother pronounces you a slut, and your father keeps sexually abusing you. You think abortion is traumatic, what about giving birth to your father's baby and having your family cover it up? You don't think that will mess up somebody's head? Some girls will resort to suicide because there is no other way out. Isn't that terminating a life? Oh wait, they're not babies so it doesn't count.
