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New Zealand Schools Arranging Secret Teen Abortions

New Zealand schools are coming under criticism from parents of teenage girls who obtained secret abortions arranged by school officials without their parents" knowledge or consent.

One mother interviewed by the Sunday Star Times newspaper said she was horrified to learn her daughter had an abortion of her granddaughter four days after the abortion procedure took place. She had confronted her daughter about tearful breakdowns that occurred after the abortion and the teen was scared to inform her mother about the abortion.

"I was horrified. Horrified that she"d had to go through that on her own, and horrified her friends and counselors had felt that she shouldn't talk to us," she said.

After her daughter's friends informed her the school arranged for the abortion, she told the newspaper, "I didn't know that they could do that" and said it was wrong for teachers to inform parents about minor behavioral or scholastic issues but to withhold information about a major surgical procedure like an abortion.

The mother also told the Times that the school counselor who arranged for the abortion did not provide other advice to her daughter and asked whether she had told her parents but did not follow up when informed the teen had not done so. She described the counselor as "not forthcoming" and said follow-up counseling and support after the abortion was "nonexistent." Ref. Source 1

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