Yep. Nine of them.
Posted on 03/01/2009 5:50:06 AM PST by redk
Edited on 03/01/2009 11:03:23 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Gov. Sarah Palin and some conservative legislators are pushing a bill to require teenagers to get their parent's consent before having an abortion. We've been here before. The Alaska Supreme Court in 2007 declared such a law unconstitutional. It's still unconstitutional. Parents do not have the right to compel a daughter to abort a pregnancy. Neither do they have the right to compel a pregnant daughter to give birth. Pregnant teens should have ultimate control over the decision to bear a child or abort a pregnancy, just as much as any woman.
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I think that the ADN is volunteering to take over all the costs and responsibilities of parenting pregnant teen girls, given this editorial.
Seriously, I wonder what would happen should there be a horribly dysfunctional family, where a pregnant 14 year old decided to get an abortion without any parental notification nor consent, and at that point the parents decided to drop the teen off at the AK Supreme Court, or some other government building, with a note stating that since they had absolved the parents of being notified of a serious medical procedure, the courts could just take care of the rest of this girl’s raising and expenses until the age of 18.
Mark
Bookmarked for later.
Someone in the comments section told an interesting story. She said she suspected her teenage daughter was pregnant but could not find out because of all the confidentiality laws. She did eventually find out, when her daughter came running to her in tears with a bill of 600 dollars from Planned Parenthood.
I'd bet the Alaska constitution doesn't say anything of the sort. I'd bet it is just a bunch of blacked robed tyrrants that said so.
Bottom line, the left found a court that discovered a legal right for a child to murder without penalty in the state constitution, so it's wrong to try to get that ruling over turned.
I've known parents who've pressured their daughters to abort against those daughters' wishes, so parental notification is not always a good thing. Still, states require parental consent for ear piercing, getting a tramp stamp & everything else that smacks of non-reproductive related medical treatment, segregating out treatments related to reproduction drive a wedge between parents & minor children in one of the most important aspects of life. The state should not act as an agent of sexual dysfunction of minors, but that is what all of the sexual secrecy laws do.
Yep. Nine of them.
My question is what happens if the procedure goes bad and the young lady looses her ability to have children later in life or if she dose not survive.
A minor cannot give consent in a legal form so who can she or parents sue later after the damage is done.
“BOTTOM LINE: Alaska’s constitution says pregnant teens have a right to decide on abortion.”
An UTTERLY baseless idea. Parents have rights and responsabilities with and to their own childeren EXCEPT in the matter of this one medical procedure.
“A minor cannot give consent in a legal form so who can she or parents sue later after the damage is done.”
I may be wrong but I was once told that it was for this reason that many states have laws against minors getting hysterectomy’s with or without parental consent.
My wife compares the hypocrisy of the media and others when she says that when a teenager gets pregnant and wants to keep the child the abortophiles call her a “baby having a babyâ€, but if a teenager wants to have an abortion she’s a “women exercising her rightsâ€
Long gone is the day when status as an "editor" justified a claim on the reader's attention. Most readers today are better informed than most editors.
The comment pages at the ADN are generally very anti-Palin. Much of it is obviously well orchestrated with similar talking points and constantly repeated lies. More of us need to post factual and well structured comments (if you can bear to decend into a sewer). Otherwise, to an outside viewer, it seems that Alaskan’s are turning against Governor Palin (polls say the opposite).
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I seem to recall that many states have laws pertaining to purchases by minors. For instance, I remember a case of a 14 year old in NY who bought an expensive stereo without his parents consent or knowledge, using his college fund. The store had to give him a refund when the parents insisted that he return the stereo. While this was back in the 70s or 80s, these laws were in place to protect those who were too young to know better, and to keep them from being preyed upon by unscrupulous business owners. I wonder, if those laws are still in place, if they could be used in a situation like this. Of course, it's too late to save the baby of the teenager you mentioned, but I wonder if the parents could just tell PP to take a hike, since this was a "purchase" that their underage daughter had taken on, without their knowledge or consent. PP could not argue that this was a required medical procedure in order to save the teen's life...
And as much as we hear from PP that abortion is a "RIGHT" (abhorrent to anyone who realized that RIGHTS are granted by the Almighty!), I have a feeling that when PP stops getting paid for their slaughter, they'll have second thoughts about actually doing abortions for free. All of a sudden, I have a feeling that PP will not fight quite so hard against parental notification.
Mark
It’s very well orchestrated, especially in regard to the Alaska newspapers. Very few posters live in AK. My son’s college roommate still gets $8/hr. to continue to post anti-Palin messages on these types of boards, esp. in Alaska, just as he was paid during the campaign. The campaign against Palin has not ended.
I’d bet you’re right on this one. This is one of the areas where Palin really is well versed. She understands the pro-life message and isn’t afraid to stand up for it.
Just FYI, there is no parental consent for tattoos. You’re either 18 and can get one, or you can’t. Sec. 08.13.217. Alaskan code.
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