[Saundra Duffy]

This is a "parental consent" bill but if you use those words, the pro choice lobby has a hissy fit. (Assemblyman Mike Briggs is one of my heroes!) Go, Briggs!

[mattdono]

but if you use those words, the pro choice lobby has a hissy fit

Even more reason to use those words...

[Motherhood IS a career]

This is a "parental consent" bill but if you use those words, the pro choice lobby has a hissy fit.

What does this have to do with pro choice?? These are children we're talking about, and their parents can't be legally kept out of their lives by a school!

Can they?? Or is this a joke? Can the laws in California really be that deranged? How can this possibly be legal!?

And what kind of doctor would perform an abortion on a 12- year old without parental consent? Doesn't that just scream malpractice to you?

I find this absolutely appalling. I hope the bill passes.

And by the way, I'm pro choice (but let's not get into that,) and the only thing I'm having a hissy fit about is the current law in effect which you described. Unbelievable!

[hsmomx3]

These evil-doers need more parents to stand up to their antics. Unfortunately, many parents don't think it's happening in their child's school. Or they're just too busy climbing the corporate ladder to pay for that new SUV and the summer vacations.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Actually, I think it would be a good tactical move for conservatives and libertarians to quietly support keeping this idiot law in place. The public schools are hopeless already, and any kid who really wants to get contraceptives or an abortion or talk to a loony-lefty "counselor" will be able to with or without this bill. But giving the school bureaucrats authority to ship people's kids all over the county during the school day without the parents' knowledge is one more strike against the public schools, which will cause more people to take their kids out of public schools and put them in private school or home school them.

The fewer kids are in public schools, the stronger the voting block to reduce their funding and reduce interference with legitimate home schooling, and the weaker the voting block for the teachers' union (fewer kids in public school = fewer teachers in unionized school jobs = fewer teachers with incentive to vote to protect their jobs). Help the government indoctrination centers hang themselves with their own rope -- support keeping this obnoxious law on the books!

[lager]

Thanks for the great post. Saundra Duffy you're my hero. Go Briggs!!

[metmom]

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