“If the parents force an abortion on a minor, then the parents could not only be subject to civil responsibility, but they could also be criminally liable under our fetal homicide laws,” explained a local legal analyst to ABC News. “Not only does the minor have a right to be protected, but the fetus does even under Texas law.”

A teenage girl in Texas has sued her parents in an effort to stop them from forcing her to have an abortion.

The 16-year-old, who is only cited as R.E.K. in the lawsuit because she is still a minor, is two months pregnant. She asserts that both her mother and father “are violating her federal constitutional rights to carry her child to term by coercing her to have an abortion with both verbal and physical threats and harassment.”

“We are asking the judge to stop them from physically forcing her to have an abortion. She is legally protected,” stated Stephen Casey of the Texas Center for the Defense of Life, which is representing R.E.K. “They cannot drag her to get an abortion and force an abortion on our client.”

The lawsuit filed against the parents this month makes a number of allegations regarding the use of pressure and intimidation.

“[The mother] invited the paternal grandparents to a bar for further discussion, where she suggested that she might slip her an abortion pill through deception,” the eight-page legal complaint outlines. “[The father] became extremely angry, was insistent that R.E.K. was not having the baby, and that the decision was not up to her. He stated he was going to take her to have an abortion and that the decision was his, end of story.”

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