For these girls, pregnancy can represent their only hope of escaping the abusive situation. To such a girl, pregnancy may not be the problem. Incest is the problem, and pregnancy may be the solution-a way to force someone to recognize her plight and rescue her. Reardon discovered that in virtually every case of pregnancy after incest, the abortion was not the girl's decision. In several cases, the abortion was carried out over the objections of the girl who clearly told others that she wanted to give birth to her child.
Abortion turns out to be a great way to destroy evidence.
Dr. Julio C. Novoa performed five abortions on three sisters who had been habitually raped by their father. The doctor didn't suspect a thing. The girls were between 13 and 19, and their mother facilitated the incest and the abortions. The situation ended only when the youngest girl scrawled at the bottom of a history test that she hated life and wanted to die. She probably has unrealistic ideas that the baby will provide her with the unconditional love she craves.