Remember: Spring Adams Would Not Have Been Saved by an Abortion

UPDATE: Commenters have filled in a lot of gaps -- things that the news hadn't covered and that the abortion lobby didn't consider worth mentioning because to them, the only thing that mattered was making sure an abortion happened. I have updated the story effective July 23, 2022.

With all the news coverage of the New Hampshire law going before SCOTUS, it's a good time to remember Spring Adams, a girl who died at the hands of her rapist father. He shot the girl dead in her bed. She was only 13 years old.

From an ACLU pamphlet:

Where a pattern of sexual abuse already exists, parental reactions to a daughter's pregnancy can be even more extreme. One notable example occurred in Fruitland, Idaho, where 13-year-old Spring Adams became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse by her father. Although the young woman decided to have an abortion and arranged for an appointment, she could not afford either to pay for the procedure or to travel to the abortion provider, who was more than six hours away in Portland, Oregon. The local social services agency would have refused to pay for her medical care because abortions are not covered by medical assistance -- even in rape or incest cases. Two Portland organizations arranged for a free abortion, a ride to Portland, and a place for Spring to stay overnight. But the morning before she was to leave for the clinic, Spring's father shot her to death with a .30 caliber rifle while she lay sleeping.

According to this site, the Idaho Health Department set the ball in motion for Spring's abortion, contacting an the Portland abortionist. 

Let's look at something the abortion lobby glosses over: Rocky Adams had admitted to the incest in a written statement made to the police on June 16 -- two months before he murdered his daughter. Child abuse charges were filed on June 20. Yet Rocky Adams was neither incarcerated nor committed to a mental institution, in spite of a plea he made for treatment for psychological and substance abuse problems. 

Even if the abortion had been preformed the moment social workers knew about the pregnancy, that would have changed nothing: Rocky still would have killed his daughter.

I wish that the first action taken in this case had been to lock Rocky Adams up and throw away the key. If the police had been as aggressive in pursuing the rapist as social workers were in pursuing an abortion, Spring and her baby both might still be alive today.