Beyond mere notification, I think a minor girl should need her parents' permission to have an abortion. Oh, ideally, the vast majority of abortions should be entirely illegal, but if we must have them doesn't it make sense for them to be treated like the major medical procedures they are? You may remember a bill in New Zealand that would have required parental notification for abortions by children; I have no idea if the bill became law, but it was very popular and vehemently opposed by the left in New Zealand. The article I quoted earlier said:
Many parents are horrified at the notion of school staff whisking their under-16 year old daughters off for an abortion during school hours, leaving parents out of the loop in what is likely to be the most traumatic decision their child has ever made. ...The pro-life Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child points out that schools are obliged to inform parents if even mild medications are given to children while away from home, yet abortions are exempt from this policy.
Fantasy, right? That would never happen? But it looks like something even worse in going on in Illinois where an unrelated adult snatched a kid from school for an abortion. The mother of the girl tried to intervene, and got arrested.
The girl was allegedly taken to an abortion clinic by the mother of the man allegedly to have impregnated the 14-year old.
According to the girl's mother, her 14-year old daughter was called off from school in Madison County by a woman posing as the girl's “grandmother.” The woman took the girl from her home only minutes before the girl’s mother returned home from work.
It's amazing how our courts bend over backwards to kill handicapped people in hospitals and unborn babies, and convicted murderers on death row take decades to execute. Disgusting.
It strikes me that a doctor who performs an elective proceedure on a minor who is legally incapable of entering a contract and therefore waving risk is taking a major malpractice risk, even if everything goes flawlessly. You can't have informed consent from someone who cannot legally consent.
The mother should sue all of them. It's gotta be illegal to falsely represent yourself as someone's grandmother to take a child out of school, and the article said only the girl's parents and grandfather were authorized to pick up the girl, so the mother should sue the school for failing to invoke their own security procedures. The article also said the mother had a right to speak to her daughter, so the clinic personnel should be sued for preventing her from doing so. I don't usually recommend people sue everybody involved in an incident, but I think this is one time when it would be right to do so.
I just had to blink in astonishment at this article.
I still find it amazing to think that trained medical professionals would consider a 14-yr-old's body "her own" when it comes to any kind of medical treatment. It's bad enough when people consider a viable fetus in a grown woman's body as "part of the woman" and not a separate life, but to toss medical ethics in treating children out the window to please your moral superiority is unconscionable.
Once again, this issue was basically made a law by the court system of America without a vote of the people. Roe Vs. Wade was a court case, and not an ammendment to the constitution. This should not be legal, especially not since the doctor was performing a "minor surgical procedure" on a child. I can't even have my neighbor take my dog to the vet without signing a waiver, but you could have a grandson or granddaughter killed in your 14 yr. olds womb without even having to be informed. It makes me sick. I was adopted, and if RvW had been passed a few years earlier, I wouldn't even be here. It's just scary when you think that the person that could've invented Cold Fusion, or written the next great musical masterpiece, or "fixed" the energy crisis, or whatever, may have been killed in the womb, because they would've "inconvenienced" their mother. AARRRGGHH!
the situation described above is obviously not the girl's consenting decision-- she was abducted. In other cases, however, if a young women gets pregnant (by incest-- a father or uncle or grandfather) or by rape or even by her boyfriend, she absolutely should have the right to consent to an abortion without her parent(s) consent. If she is in a SAFE home situation (which many pregnant young women are not) then she should definitely seek guidance from her parent(s), but it should not be required.
just another example of the destruction of the family by liberals. someone best apply the breaks or the whole thing is going down the toilet.......