Federal Court Rules Parents Don’t Have a Right to Know When Their Daughters are Considering an...

FULL TITLE: Federal Court Rules Parents Don’t Have a Right to Know When Their Daughters are Considering an Abortion

A federal appeals court upheld a block Tuesday on an Indiana law that requires underage girls to inform their parents before having an abortion.

A Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals panel allowed the block to remain in place, rejecting an appeal from the state that asked to be allowed to enforce the law, the AP reports.

The law, which passed in 2017, strengthens current Indiana laws regarding parental rights by requiring abortion providers to obtain proof of consent from a parent or legal guardian before a girl under 18 has an abortion. It gives parents/legal guardians a civil recourse if someone fraudulently poses as a parent in order for a minor girl to get an abortion. It also makes sure parents are involved if a minor appears before a judge to request an abortion without her parents’ consent.

The Planned Parenthood abortion chain and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit challenging the parental consent law the same year. Their lawyers argued that abortion clinics should be allowed to perform abortions on young girls without their parents’ knowledge. A lower court later issued a preliminary injunction blocking the law.

“The State has not yet come forward with evidence showing that there is a problem for the new parental notice requirement to solve, let alone that the law would reasonably be expected to solve it,” Judge David Hamilton wrote in his decision, WBAA News reports.

The ACLU of Indiana claims the provisions violate young women’s constitutional rights by imposing “new burdens” on their access to abortion.

However, Indiana Right to Life President Mike Fichter previously said parents should have a role in decisions that affect their underage daughter’s health.

“Planned Parenthood claims abortion is a ‘women’s right,’ but this rhetoric forgets we’re talking about young, minor girls,” he told LifeNews. “An abortion is not a trivial health decision to be made lightly. Parents deserve to be involved and informed.”

Parental notification/parental consent laws have strong public support. Currently, 37 states require some type of parental involvement in a minor’s abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

These laws can help protect young women from abusive situations. Sexual abusers have been known to take their young victims to abortion clinics when they become pregnant.

In 2008, a Planned Parenthood in Bloomington, Indiana was exposed for agreeing to help cover up the alleged sexual abuse of a minor in an undercover sting.

In another case in Ohio, Planned Parenthood faced a lawsuit after it failed to report the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl. The girl’s soccer coach got her pregnant and then took her to the abortion clinic to cover up his crime, LifeNews reported.

Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life, previously has spoken about how parental involvement laws help protect vulnerable young girls from abuses.

“Who takes under-aged, pregnant girls across state lines for abortion? Most often, it’s noncustodial, older men who are sexual predators seeking to conceal the crime of statutory rape or other noncustodial adults involved in sex trafficking of minors,” she wrote at LifeNews in 2012.

Foster pointed to the testimony of abortionist Bruce Lucero who wrote in the New York Times: “… a parent’s input is the best guarantee that a teenager will make a decision that is correct for her—be it abortion, adoption or keeping the baby. And it helps guarantee that if a teenager chooses an abortion, she will receive appropriate medical care.”

However, Planned Parenthood, NARAL and other abortion advocacy groups often lobby against parental involvement laws. They believe that underage girls should be able to abort their unborn babies in a dangerous surgical or drug-induced abortion procedure without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

In 2013, Planned Parenthood also filed a lawsuit in Montana to overturn its parental involvement requirements.

We had a 15 year old foster child, female, who we suspected might be pregnant based on seeing a planned parenthood phone number scrawled on her notepad. We confronted her and she sincerely denied it and said it was for a friend getting birth control. Still, I knew the boy and I spoke with his father and told him to speak with his son. Sure enough, she was pregnant. She was scheduled for an abortion in only two days (California doesn’t require parental notification) and she had denied it as she didn’t want us to find out.
I asked her, now that we knew, what she really wanted to do about the pregnancy, hoping that she would give the right answer and she did. She said that she really wanted to keep it. We told her that we would make that work.
That was fifteen years ago. We later adopted the foster girl and that child is now my oldest grandson. Because he spent seven of his first ten years living under my roof, he is like the son I didn’t have. He gets his driving permit this year. I am so proud of both him and his mother.

You know what, why should anyone care? This country is at the point where the two sides cannot reconcile their differences. Lots say that we should all put down our smartphones and talk to our neighbors because we’ll probably find that there aren’t too many differences. That might be the case. Maybe.

But I can guarantee that if I took anyone on this site to certain parts of the Atlanta metro area and broached this topic, the tone of the conversation would go from indifference to rabid Leftist. Indifference in the sense that some on the Left would shrug their shoulders and give a lame response about it not being their business, the girl has her rights but they would want to know if it was their daughter. They would shrug their shoulders at a teenager being given an surgical procedure because they ignore the potential risks due to their indifference.

Then, of course, you’d encounter the insane, rabid Leftist that could potentially attack you and then blame it on their hysteria caused by them being triggered.

That being said, just forget about anything. Break the country up, into 3 parts, and let them the Left have their parts. The rest of us can take our slice and live our lives. While I do think there’s a very good chance of some legitimate violence, leading up to November 2020, I don’t think we’ll ever have a civil war, like we did the last time. Hell, there’s been a civil war in this country since the late 50s/early 60s. It’s been bubbling along, getting worse and worse and now seems to really be manifesting itself since the last administration, basically signing off on all their increasingly aggressive tactics.

It’s time we all come to realize this and make a decision. None of us are going to go into liberal neighborhoods and indiscriminately do violence on anyone. We’re better than that. Will the Left? Absolutely. Hell, they did it to the Senate Majority leader. It wouldn’t have taken much for someone to rile that group up and lead them to do something. That’s when it’ll get ugly. When they bring it to your doorstep.

The Blue states are going to continue to get Bluer. The Red states are being invaded and infiltrated by liberal retirees and workers, along with illegals, to turn those states Blue as well, and the liberals seem to be doing a pretty good at that.

There is one thing that could change all of this, IMHO, but it would be pretty much impossible, even though it’s probably what most of us would like.

IMMIGRATION....end all of it...every single bit of it....end every and any refugee program there is and return each and everyone of them to their country of record....end every and any asylum program there is.....go back 25 years and rescind any citizenship that was given to anyone based on Birthright Citizenship, Green Card loopholes, H1B/H2B visa programs....incrementally cut EVERY benefit that ALL of the aforementioned receive....there will be some exclusions to all of this like: they did it the right way, they served in the military, made it through the system and went into public service(cop, fireman, emt, nurse, doctor)...basically they are a functioning and contributing member of society, however, any family members on the dole start packing....THEN, when all of that is done and the dust settles, we can finally take stock of where were are as a country and who is who.....Outside of a complete housecleaning, it’s only going to get worse.

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