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...young people dealing with this unwelcome event: first denial, then a creeping fear and perhaps a few fretful, secretive exchanges before the news finally comes out. In the case of "Mary Smith,'' a 15-year-old freshman at Blair High School, and her 16-year-old boyfriend Heath Mayfield, a junior varsity running back with a spanking-new Ford Mustang, the pregnancy was well into the fifth month before they finally confirmed it with a home-test...
...that emotional afternoon more than a year ago, Heath Mayfield recalls, "I told her she didn't have to do that, and she kept crying." Heath too was upset, and when his mother Cathy Tull discovered why, she got on the phone with Mary's mother and, as she says, "had words." She and her husband John Tull, a printshop owner, then followed Heath to the Smiths' front yard, where the two families battled it out before a gathering audience of passersby. The Tulls claim that Heath was on his knees begging for the life of the baby in front...
...unlike appendicitis, pregnancy is governed by a host of special laws, from Roe v. Wade to the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, Kleveland observes. "The point is that Heath Mayfield and his family and government officials had no right or standing to interfere with the young woman's decision to have an abortion...
Grant allegedly killed her mother Dorothy Mayfield by bludgeoning her with a lead crystal candlestick. Her attorneys argued that she had suffered years of emotional abuse while living with her mother after the death of her father...
Dickson is the brother of Dorothy Mayfield, Grant's mother, whom the 19-year-old killed in 1990 in Columbia, S.C. Grant pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter and served eight months in juvenile detention before being allowed to move to Massachusetts. She currently lives in North Cambridge...