Posted on 10/01/2006 1:54:39 PM PDT by SmithL
OPPONENTS of Proposition 85, which would mandate that a parent be notified before a minor has an abortion, basically argue that teenagers will tell good parents -- open-minded parents like them -- if they are pregnant. But if pregnant teenagers don't talk to their parents, it probably is for a good reason. As in: their parents are close-minded, abusive or neglectful.
They have a nifty-sounding sentence that sounds good until you think about it. As they told The Chronicle's editorial board last week, no law can make kids talk to their parents.
Wrong. When minors need parental consent to do something they want to do, they talk to their parents.
In this case, Prop. 85 does not require that parents consent to their daughters' abortions. It requires that parents be notified -- unless there is a medical emergency, a judge waives parental notification based on the child's maturity or best interests, or parents stipulate in writing that they don't want to know. (A form would allow parents to waive the notification requirement for 30 days, until a specific date or until their daughter's 18th birthday.)
The folks behind Prop. 85 are essentially the people who pushed a similar measure, Proposition 73, which 53 percent of California voters rejected in November. No doubt many of those voters don't want to limit legal abortions.
But also, apparently, the opponents' argument that, that if Prop. 73 passed, children from dysfunctional families would be harmed, resonated with Californians. ... Yet would hapless teenagers be better off without a parent's help? Better to have a law that mandates parental notification, unless a judge waives the requirement.
Meanwhile, the law has to recognize a parent's fundamental right to know if his or her 14-year-old daughter is pregnant.
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This is so skewed. Of course a child is going to be reluctant to tell her parents that she is pregnant if she has been taught that her behavior is wrong. That doesn't mean that even though they may be disappointed in her that they aren't going to continue to love and support her.
It's my child. A minor. I am the legal guardian. I am responsible for that child. The child fails in school, I'm the one the school calls. The child gets a speeding ticket, I'm the one who pay for the insurance hike. The child wants to get married, I'm the one who has to sign the forms. The child wants to get an abortion, I darn well better be informed before hand.
Actually this is a pretty good piece for Saunders. She's normally a pro-abort.
Its a very strange thing, but a lot of good parents are closed minded about their 14 year old daughter getting knocked up. They are even more closed minded about that daughter making a decision without them, which may effect her mentally and physically for the rest of her life.
It's amazing here in California my daughter can't even take an aspirin at school without a letter from me and our doctor. Meanwhile it is OK for her to leave school, have an abortion, and go back to school like nothing happened and the district won't tell me a thing.
It seems like a no-brainer--except to mind-numb liberals.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: abortion is a SURGICAL procedure. What OTHER surgical procedure can be performed on a CHILD without a parent or guardian's permission?
ping to above.
I believe we discussed similar tactics before.
Why on earth not?
Exactly. Then what happens when she gets an infection or even bleeds out overnight and we parents have no clue to even be looking for these side effects of the "abortion gone wrong". That's what pisses me off.
The paperwork the schools send home to be initialized has a section saying something to the effect that the student can leave campus for medical without parental notification. I had always wrote next to it_ THIS HAD BETTER NOT HAPPEN. I took her out of the school last year. It's a relief that she's not exposed to all the trash at her school.
I would add why not allow theme to sign for credit cards? How about having military recruiters sign them up at schools age 14? I'd love to get the libs on record about that stuff. They'd be telling us how those kids are too young to make those serious life-altering commitments.
Hell parents should have VETO rights over elective minor abortions in non life threatening situations. 2nd amendment rights are true constitutional rights, not spurious made up ones like "a woman's right to choose" yet we abridge minor's RKBA all the time. Maybe this right is so absolute because it is made up as we go along?
Nonsense.
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