{"id":6344,"date":"2004-11-18T09:51:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/11\/18\/atonement-baby\/"},"modified":"2004-11-18T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T14:51:13","slug":"atonement-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/11\/atonement-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Atonement Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">London, England (LifeNews.com) &#8212; A British girl who triggered a national controversy after she had an abortion without her mother&#8217;s knowledge is pregnant again. But this time, student Melissa Smith intends to keep the baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Her mother Maureen told the BBC, &quot;She&#8217;s 15, she made her own mind up. She was hell-bent on replacing the one she lost, basically.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Maureen also told the BBC, &quot;Me and my family are supportive 100 percent. We&#8217;ll be there for her &#8212; like we said previously.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the pro-life group known as LIFE, Rachel Heath, said, &#8220;It is not uncommon for women who have an abortion to become pregnant again soon after.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;Many women find the pain of their abortion difficult to bear and go on to have an &#8216;atonement&#8217; baby. This is often by the same father,&quot; Heath said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;I hope this time the school health worker leaves (the girl), her boyfriend and family alone to prepare themselves for the birth of their child,&quot; Heath added. [<a href=\"London,%20England%20(LifeNews.com)%20--%20A%20British%20girl%20who%20triggered%20a%20national%20controversy%20after%20she%20had%20an%20abortion%20without%20her%20mother%27s%20knowledge%20is%20pregnant%20again.%20But%20this%20time,%20student%20Melissa%20Smith%20intends%20to%20keep%20the%20baby.\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, England (LifeNews.com) &#8212; A British girl who triggered a national controversy after she had an abortion without her mother&#8217;s knowledge is pregnant again. But this time, student Melissa Smith&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}