Unsafe abortion Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Cases resulting from parental consent laws in the U.S. after 1973=== In 2005, the ''[[Detroit News]]'' reported that a 16-year-old boy, at his pregnant, under-age girlfriend's request, repeatedly beat her abdomen with a bat to abort the fetus. The young couple lived in Michigan and were evading a state law requiring a minor to receive a parent's or a judge's consent to obtain a legal abortion.<ref>{{cite news | vauthors = Cardenas E, George H |date = 5 January 2005 | title =Boy Faces Felony in Baseball Bat Abortion | work =Detroit News | url =https://billmuehlenberg.com/web-archive/detroit-news-boy-faces-felony-baseball-bat-abortion/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | vauthors = White P | date =January 13β21, 2005 | title =Baseball Bat Abortion | publisher =Boulder Weekly | url =http://archive.boulderweekly.com/011305/uncensored.html | access-date =2009-05-31 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/choice-action-center/in_your_state/who-decides/state-profiles/michigan.html?templateName=lawdetails&issueID=6&ssumID=2652 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060130214820/http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/choice-action-center/in_your_state/who-decides/state-profiles/michigan.html?templateName=lawdetails&issueID=6&ssumID=2652 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 30, 2006 |title=Michigan: Restrictions on Young Women's Access to Abortion |publisher=NARAL Pro-Choice America |access-date=2009-05-31}}</ref> In Indiana, where there were also parental consent laws, 17-year-old [[Becky Bell]] died from an unsafe abortion in 1988 rather than discuss her pregnancy and wish for an abortion with her parents.<ref>{{cite web | title=DEMOCRACY NOW! | url=http://www.pacifica.org/programs/dn/030123.html |date=2003-01-22 |access-date=2021-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809172936/http://www.pacifica.org/programs/dn/030123.html |archive-date=2011-08-09 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Platner J | title= Remembering Becky Bell | date=2006-09-15 | publisher=Planned Parenthood Golden Gate | url=http://www.ppgg.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=esJMKZPKJtH&b=1371221&ct=2939285 | access-date=2009-05-31}}</ref> {{better source needed|date=December 2022}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page