From: Robert 

On 29 Mar 2007 00:32:01 -0700, "Anlatt the Builder"
 wrote:

>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?

  Very true but the wrong approach. Parental consent also gives the
parents the right to force a daughter to have an abortion. And many
especially the religious would force their daughters to abort, to avoid
shame for the parents.

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