I have a special needs daughter (11), and I would be so upset if she were ever to have an abortion without my notification.
She has epilepsy, and she’s learning about it, but she doesn’t know as much as I do.
Pregnancy & hormones effects epilepsy in many ways. Also, there are certain drugs to be avoided. She needs to be monitored.
She has seizures in her sleep, so anything that makes her at risk for having seizures (like being sick) means she needs to be monitored more closely.
(Now, I doubt she’ll get pregnant while she’s a teen because we monitor her like a hawk because of the epilepsy. She’ll never be left at home alone, drive alone, etc.)
I despise the way that the left takes advantages of peoples fear. Most teenagers believe ‘My dad will kill me if he finds out’, I know there are things I kept from my parents which, looking back as a parent myself, I now know would have elicited a soft loving lecture.
NOW has convinced teen girls that they will be beaten and disowned if they get pregnant and and in a small number of cases that is the the truth but not in most. The left has always demonized the parents (especially the father) as some sort of beasts so that kids will go to them..
My first action would be to calm the girl down to make her feel safe and loved. I would talk about the options (not including abortion) of adoption or keeping the baby. I would work with my wife to find child care so my daughter could continue school and give her a crash course in home-ec so she could start to be a mother.
How anyone, even a lib, could be against this I have no idea. I mean, it would have a wonder side effect of lowering teen pregnancy rates. If a teenage girl KNOWS her parents will find out, she’ll be less likely to make a foolish decision ie: not having sex at all (i would hope) , or at least making sure protection was used.
Then again, abortion is a multi-million dollar business.....
I think I just answered my own question.