From: "Anlatt the Builder" 

On Mar 28, 10:22 pm, "J Young"  wrote:
> Imagine any other non-emergency medical procedure being performed on a
> child without parental consent. The protest would be rightfully angry
> and loud. The most important decision in this child's life, to decide
> whether her baby will live or die, should be made with the love and
> guidance of her parents.
>
> http://www.lifenews.com/state2189.html
>
> Boise, ID (LifeNews.com) -- Idaho Gov Butch Otter signed a bill
> Tuesday that would make it so a teenager would not be able to get an
> abortion unless her parents gave their consent. The measure is another
> attempt to put the idea on the books since courts have declared
> previous consent statutes unconstitutional.
>
> Idaho has been without a Parental Consent Law since 2005, when federal
> District Court Judge Lynn Winmill enjoined Idaho from enforcing the
> law because of his concerns over the notification of parents in the
> event an abortionist performed an emergency abortion on their child.
>
> As a result, teenage abortions have been on the rise in recent years.

We know for a fact that some teen-age girls will do ANYTHING to prevent
their parents from finding out they're pregnant, because they fear being
beat up, thrown out of the house, shunned, abused, etc. In some cases they
have very good reasons for fearing these things.

So these girls will:

 - get a back-alley abortion
 - try to induce an abortion themselves
 - hide the pregnancy and
 - - give birth alone somewhere
 - - leave the baby in the toilet at their prom
 - - throw the baby away

We have seen every one of these cases in the newspapers, over and over
again. Now that you have your parental consent laws, how do YOU propose
preventing these horrible outcomes? Or do you just not care?

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