One example of many. Schools can take underage girls out of school to have abortions without their parents knowledge, but aren't allowed to give them Tylenol for a headache. Does that make sense to you?
but thats more on a moral level...yes that is definitely off-beat. I meant my question to be geared towards actual education.
njweave- the example that processing please hold gave you is a good example of the fundamental differences we have and it would be good for you to think beyond the specific example and to the fundamental issue this arises from. Who owns your life in this example, yourself or the government. The person being aborted (yes, the baby being aborted is a person by all scientific standards- unique DNA) is, in this example, being treated as property of the State. That life is being owned by another entity- akin to slavery. As for the girl, a minor, by law, isn't property of a parent, however, she is the responsibility of the parent. The government is usurping the parent's role and saying it knows better than the parent what happens to that child... Again, a fundamental difference of the system controlling the individual (liberalism) versus the individual free of the system (conservatism).