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Raped Inmate To Planned Parenthood For Abortion

Prison Officials in Kansas Take Raped Inmate to Planned Parenthood for Abortion

Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Prison officials in Kansas are coming under fire from a state pro-life group after an expose' showing how they took a raped inmate to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. The woman, housed at the Topeka Correctional Facility, became pregnant after engaged in a sexual arrangement with a prison staffer. According to an investigative piece in the Topeka Capital Journal, 30-year old Tracy Keith was raped in prison by a prison instructor, Ted Gallardo, in October 2007. She was eventually coerced into an abortion that she says still haunts her. When she discovered she was pregnant, Keith's reaction was to have the child but was told she was ineligible for an open adoption by a social worker working with the YWCA Battered Women's Task Force. Eventually, prison staff took her to the Planned Parenthood center in Overland Park, outside Kansas City, that has been accused by state officials of doing illegal abortions. Keith claimed to the newspaper that there were hints that if she ended her pregnancy, the other inmates in a contraband racket Gallardo was running would not be prosecuted. Ref. Source 5

Abortion Parenthood Planned Inmate Raped

She is raped in jail which is horrendous in it self and then the corrections unit defy her again, coercing her to have an abortion. Her rights were completely taken away from her, from the time she was raped into her right to choose whether to have an abortion. This isn't an abortion issue, its a human rights issue.