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 Shelly confided in her best friend Joan went with Shelly to the Due to complications arising as Joan that she was pregnant and abortion clinic and took her a result of the abortion. Shelly considering abortion. home after words. died a few days later. A FRIEND TILL THE END ? ? ?With all the problems facing our society today, it's no wonder that so many people are finding themselves in desperate need of a friend to lean on in times of trouble. But what is really involved in being a true friend? You be the judge. If faced with one of the following circumstances, what kind of friend would you be??? When eighteen year old Shelly Madden, a freshman at Mobile College, moved out of her parents home into the college dorm, like so many young people, she was anxious to assert her independence. Unfortunately, and as is frequently the case, her search for independence ended in her becoming pregnant. Shelly and her best friend thumbed through the phone book, searching for a solution to Shelly's dilemma. In the corner of one abortion clinic's ad was a large daisy. Being an art student, the flower caught Shelly's attention. Shelly made an appointment to end the life of her child. All to often a girl has to face this crisis alone. However, for Shelly, this was not the case. Shelly's best friend Joan (Joan is an assumed name) went with her that day to the abortion clinic. (Each year approximately six-hundred thousand teenage girls in the U.S. become pregnant out of wed-lock and chose abortion as a solution.) Joan remained in the waiting room while the abortionist quickly ended the life of Shelly's innocent, silent, and defenseless baby. (early term abortions generally take less than five minutes to perform.) Following the brief recovery period permitted Shelly, she and Joan left the abortion clinic. Shelly, feeling that her problems were now behind her, could once again get back to experiencing her newly found independence. (How wrong she was!) Two days latter, Shelly began running a fever. She called the Family Planning Medical Center of Mobile (this is one in a group of nine interlinked abortion clinics operating in the Southern states under a variety of different names) where the abortion was performed and left word for the nurse to phone her back. The nurse called and said that it was normal to run a fever. She told her not to worry. She prescribed Tylenol and told her that after a couple days of bed rest, she would feel as good as new. Joan, Shelly's faithful best friend, was still there by her side. Less than twenty-four hours latter, Shelly collapsed in her dorm room and was rushed to the Mobile Infirmary Medical Center. The doctor called her parents and told them about the abortion. The doctor then phoned the abortion clinic and told them, "I have just admitted a patient of yours by the name of Shelly Madden. Her blood pressure upon admission was forty over zero. When I examined her cervix, it looked like it had been beaten with a base-ball bat." Shelly died three days latter. The Coroner listed the cause of death as blood poisoning and complications due to an incomplete elective abortion. Shelly's parents blame the abortion clinic, Dr. O.B. Evans of Foley, Alabama, and the clinic's executive director, Beverly Murrell for the death of their daughter and have filed a lawsuit naming all three. (Beverly Murrell has since left Mobile but, at the writing of this article, continues to promote the killing of innocent children at the Morehead Medical Center, an abortion clinic in Charlotte, South Carolina.) When questioned, Shelly's best friend, Joan, also felt that those listed above were to blame for the death of her friend. She did not and perhaps still doesn't see herself as sharing in the responsibility of her best friends death. A woman who chooses abortion as an end to a crisis pregnancy situation faces a variety of complex problems. These problems, or side-effects, manifest themselves psychologically as well as physically. For some women, the resulting side-effect of abortion is even death. However, the entanglement brought on by abortion reaches beyond the physical and psychological complications to the point of creating a series of social complexities, not only for the woman who has had the abortion, but for others as well. Abortion can, and often does, entrap the woman's entire family and many of her friends in a very traumatic way. Let's look at how abortion affected another girl, her family, and friends. (We have changed the names to protect the innocent.) As you may recall from our first mailing in this series entitled "Beth's Story", a distraught woman phoned early one morning and asked the following question, "How old does a girl have to be to have an abortion without her parents knowing about it?" I assumed the caller was referring to her own daughter but she said no, it was her daughter Julie's best friend Beth who was pregnant. She said that Beth was only sixteen years old and had been too frightened to tell her parents about her pregnancy. In a desperate move, Beth felt that her only solution was to tell her mother she was going to the mall with friends, and instead, go to the abortion clinic and end her dilemma. (Beth was obviously in dire need of a friend whom she could confide in. Julie, being her best friend, was chosen.) Julie realized that the love for her best friend meant she would have to break Beth's confidence, even though by doing so her friendship to Beth would be in jeopardy. Julie's mother did not know what to do. Beth's abortion was scheduled for 10:00 a.m. and the time was already 9:25 a.m. She wanted to call Beth's mother but was afraid to. She instead found the number of "LIFE ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED" in the phone book and called to see if there was anything we could do to save Beth and her unborn child. Time was quickly running out. She gave me Beth's home phone number and seconds later I was speaking to Beth's mother. I told her that I had received an anonymous tip from one of Beth's friends and was calling to notify her of what was taking place. I told her that she had less than thirty minutes to save her daughter and grandchild. She thanked me for the call and quickly went after her daughter. At 10:05 a.m. I received a call from Beth's mother. She had located her daughter at the abortion clinic. The abortion was not performed. The innocent unborn child was rescued!  Beth told her friend Julie that Julie contacted Life Enterprises Beth and her innocent unborn she was pregnant and planning Unlimited in an attempt to stop child were rescued from the to have an abortion. Beth's abortion – minutes away. hands of the abortionist. Was Julie a good friend to Beth by breaking her confidence? Was Joan a good friend by standing with Shelly in her decision to have an abortion? The answer to these questions ultimately means making a life (or death) decision. Would you chose death and stand beside your friend in her decision to have an abortion? Or, would you risk your friendship and chose life by telling her that abortion is not a solution and then take the necessary action to stop the abortion, even though it might mean the end of the friendship? For Joan, standing beside her friend in her decision to have an abortion in effect ended the friendship. Because of a lack of concern for the life of Shelly's innocent unborn child, Joan became an unwitting accomplice in the two deaths that ultimately resulted; the death of Shelly and the death of her unborn child. If you are ever called on to be a friend to someone in a crisis pregnancy situation, what choice will you make? There are only two; life or death. 
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