New Hampshire Parental Notification Law Head to the SCOTUS
Posted on November 30, 2005
The Supreme Court of the United States is set to consider a law requiring a 48 hour notice to be given to the parents of a teenager wanting to get an abortion. The ACLU and other women’s rights organizations see this law as a step backward in the rights of women. The same old argument that they always give.
The facts are that a teenage girl is not a woman, she’s a child. If she were to be arrested, her parents would have to be notified prior to her being questioned. I’ll guarantee that if a teenage girl would be questioned without her parents knowledge, the ACLU would be screaming that her rights were violated. The same is true for medical procedures which, in the most liberal of terms, an abortion is.
What if a girl goes to a clinic and and has an abortion, but during the procedure, something happens and she bleeds out causing permanent internal injuries? Injuries which would require long-term hospitalization or worse death. The girl never told her parents. The clinic never told her parents. Who is responsible for the “choice that she made? She is still injured or dead.
In this country, you have to be 18 years old to get a tattoo. You have to be 18 years old to join the military without parental consent. You have to be 18 years old to get married without consent. You have to be 21 to buy and/or consume alcohol. So why is it that a minor girl, can go out and get herself pregnant and terminate that pregnancy without her parent’s knowledge? It should be a crime to perform any medical procedure on a minor without parental consent unless there is an injury which is life threatening. This includes abortions.
I would be willing to bet, that if the girl in my example above did die, her parents would sue the clinic and win. Anything involving minor children, education, medical procedures, criminal activity, and/or what ever that child does, is not only a parents right to know, but the parent has the responsibility to supervise. Failing to properly supervise your children can result in your being charged with a crime. So why is it that these so-called women’s rights organizations so willing to allow an abortion to be performed on a child. They should be more than willing to cover their own bacon by insuring that parents are involved in the decision. Because we all know how irresponsible a child can be.
Keep in mind, that a minor child has already made one error in judgement, she got pregnant. How is it that society is willing to allow her to conceal this from her parents? How is it that society is willing to allow her to make another mistake that could cause her injury or death? This is the real crime.
See the ACLU’s comments on this subject here and here.
The ACLJ, of course, is taking the opposite position. And the moonbats are protesting.
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A legal abortion is a safer procedure than giving birth.
How do you know the girl doesn’t have abusive parents?
What if the girl is afraid to tell her parents and instead gets an illegal abortion? Legal abortions are safe procedures, illegal abortions are not.
If the girls has good parents, she most likely would go to them for advice regardless of what the law is. If I had a daughter, I would make sure she knew that she could talk to me about a serious problem like this without having anything to be afraid of.
I guess no women have died from safe legal rare abortion.
Like I said before, parents have no rights, husbands have no rights. Parents have no control over whether their child has an abortion, but they do have control over whether or not their information is given to a military recruiter. Glad liberals have their priorities straight.
First, two things you retards should know. One is that nearly two-thirds of Americans don’t want to see abortion made illegal. The other is that the New Hampshire law would only require parental notification, not parental consent. So even if the SCOTUS upholds it, parents won’t have the authority to keep their daughters from going through with the procedure. This would cause a lot of family friction in some cases, but obviously wouldn’t accomplish enough to keep you [edited] happy because it would hardly curb abortions.
“I guess no women have died from safe legal rare abortion.”
The death rate from legal abortion has dropped to around 1 in every 200,000. It’s not difficult to find scads of procedures more dangerous than this. I’m not pro-abortion, but the hysteria and cooking of numbers from the pro-lifers is tiresome. If I were headed into an abortion clinic and someone got in my face I’d beat his [edited] dead.
“Like I said before, parents have no rights, husbands have no rights.”
Husbands? How many married women do you suppose go out and get abortions without their husbands’ knowledge? And why wouldn’t the women’s rights take priority anyway? Caveman.
“Parents have no control over whether their child has an abortion, but they do have control over whether or not their information is given to a military recruiter. Glad liberals have their priorities straight.”
At least liberals tend to possess a modicum of understanding and reading comprehension. You should retire from Internet message boards for a solid three years and make some effort to raise your social IQ into the mid-sixties or higher.
Lisa, your dim witted [edited]. I have no rights? Glad you don’t make the decisions in my house. What the hell do you have against men anyway? Are you fat and ugly? or perhaps your father abused you or something. Children aren’t adults, parents are and are supposed to be in control. Mom and Dad raise kids, including girls, best. You and the rest of upside down morons take common sense turn it on its head and then call the rest of us nuts. Oh, and I’m sure some femanazi like you knows what is best for rest of nations children. Here’s a concept for you A-hole, stay out of my families business. Teen age girls (and boys) don’t make very good decisions. Thats why parents are legally responsible for their welfare. And since my Wife and I are legally responsible for our children then it stands to reason we should have AUTHORITY over them. Again simply common sense stupid, try it some time you might like it.
“Lisa, your dim witted [edited]”
“You and the rest of upside down morons take common sense turn it on its head…”
“I’m sure some femanazi like you knows what is best for rest of nations children.”
“Here’s a concept for you [edited], stay out of my families business.”
“Again simply common snese stupid, try it some time you might like it.”
You use pejorative terms very freely for a man whose command of his native tongue is faint to nonexistent. You may even be beyond satire.
“I have no rights?”
No rights? Where did I even come close to implying as much?
“Glad you don’t make the decisions in my house.”
Not as glad as I am.
“What the hell do you have against men anyway?”
Nothing. Why so paranoid?
“Are you fat and ugly? or perhaps your father abused you or something.”
An excellent response to the observations that 61% of Americans are against illegalizing abortion and that the New Hampshire law, whether it goes into effect or not, doesn’t give parents the authority to bar their daughters from going through with elective terminations of pregnancy. Way to confront the issues, jarhead.
“Children aren’t adults, parents are and are supposed to be in control. Mom and Dad raise kids, including girls, best.
“Teen age girls (and boys) don’t make very good decisions.”
Absolutely. But this doesn’t imply that legislating from the bench (which is precisely what any abortion countermeasures demand) is agreeable.
“Thats why parents are legally responsible for their welfare.”
Actually this is untrue, btu I haven’t the time for an in-depth sociology lecture.
“And since my Wife and I are legally responsible for our children then it stands to reason we should have AUTHORITY over them.”
I’m sure you won’t be threatening to take away whoever won your city’s Parent of the Year title in 2004.