Ballard High School in Seattle, Washington has triggered a dispute over parental rights when it arranged for an abortion of a teenage girl during school hours without notifying her parents. While the parents signed a consent form to allow her to use the clinic, they never agreed that such trips to the nurse would include an abortion.
The school put the teenager in a taxi and arranged for the abortion at a site another location.
T.J. Cosgrove of the King County Health Department noted that “[a]t any age in the state of Washington, an individual can consent to a termination of pregnancy.”
I have long opposed such a sweeping rule and denial of parental rights. In some states a school needs parental permission to give a girl an aspirin but not an abortion. For a prior column, click here. While I support the right of a teenager to seek a court exception for parental notification, I believe parents have a right to be informed of such a procedure at a minimum.
For the full story, click here.
Lady Liberty,
I was going to say to you, no one is attempting to offend you. However, if you bath in oil and keep gasoline handy near an open flame. Guess what? Your going to get burned severely…..
Maybe text isn’t the best way to get an idea across…
so a minor has the right to decide her child’s fate, actually life & death, but an adult like Lady Liberty having chosen to let her daughter live, is not even given the choice as to how she will be raised!?!?
If you step back & look at the situation, it looks like a catch 22.
You can let any minor decide for a unborn child, but then once the child is born, then the child gets to decide from that moment on?!??!
This is the reason government needs to stay OUT of personal lives.
I am with Lady Liberty, not necessarily with her opinion’s, but with her stance that I don’t need interference with raising MY KIDS.
I had them, I paid for their needs, I took care of them, and tried to raise them to be polite & know right from wrong.
And I love them more than anything in this world.
Someone else don’t like it, then you don’t have to raise yours like that.
Nuff said…
This is really disturbing…every parent has the right to know about the welfare of their child. it may not be directly about having a say on the issue that the child is in but simply knowing what is going on… Come to think of it.. the school won’t even be liable if it had been an abortion gone bad
Canadian Eh,
I am constantly amazed by the twisted pretzel of rationalization that some people call logic. ‘Backwards logic’ is too straightforward a name for it.
Slari,
I believe that the rational amoung us would refer to that as backwards logic!
Lady Liberty said:
“Ending a life to save a life is not a sin.”
Does that mean that you approve of the cold-blooded murder of Dr. Tiller in his church last year? Because that was the same logic that his killer used.
” I was speaking figuratively but, yes, people who destroy the lives of the unborn probably deserve death themselves. “lady liberty
Seriously how can you not see how contradictory and nonsensible that statement is? Essentially you are saying that it’s ok to commit murder against a living human being but it’s not ok to terminate a fetus even in cases where it’s continued development could cause death to a living human being.
maybe that’s a side-effect of you guys socializing medicine (the competent docs go elsewhere).
as far as i’m concerned any person who became a doctor solely for the money is welcome to go elsewhere. they can follow rush limbaugh to costa rica. wait they’re socialized too. china maybe?
Okay … does that also apply to the teenager … does she deserve death?
My position is that assissting minors with an abortion absent parental consent should be illegal. I was speaking figuratively but, yes, people who destroy the lives of the unborn probably deserve death themselves.
…and what Mespo said.
Lady Liberty
Ending a life to save a life is not a sin.
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Now I’m going to enter this debate with you without casting aspersions on your beliefs but only to understand, and I stress understand, them.
You stated “…. I’ve got a bullet for anyone who tries to destroy my child’s soul.” (and I understand the context of the discussion so I’m not trying to take that statement out of context) and I wondered if such a thought, and I meant thought, not action, endangered your own(soul) to whit you responded ending a life to save a life is not a sin.
In the context of the discussion (abortion/parental knowledge)I take it that anyone who helped with or provided a teenager with abortion, without notifying the parents of said teenager, would be guilty of trying to destroy that teenagers soul and should be shot dead. Is that the position you are advocating?
lady Liberty,
I see you are still choosing to contradict yourself….” ending a life to save a life is not a sin” . So are you saying that a 14 year old woman who gets pregnant and may risk health problems if forced to give birth at such a tender age should have an abortion?
Lady Liberty:
“I didn’t expect to be respected for my views. I expected respect as a human being. Sadly, it appears this blog isn’t the place for that.”
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To the contrary on this blog, commenters earn their respect by the quality of their thoughts and beliefs — even unpopular ones. I do not disrespect you, merely your unfounded beliefs which you refuse to explain or defend. No one wants you to go away mad. We simply want you to do what everyone else here does on a regular basis: posit your thoughts and defend them logically or in such a way as to convince others. Everyone here is busy and we don’t have time to waste on childish musings or trite plattitudes. Many of us come here to temper our thoughts in the fire of passionate opposition. That is the essence of higher learning – the realization that one can’t know it all, and others have differing and sometimes better perspectives. For example, FFLeo has taught me more about the mind-set of good law enforcement than any textbook could ever do. The same should be said for Mike S and his unique and experienced perspective on many topics. Mike A, Buddha, AY, Duh, Vince Treachy, and plenty others like rafflaw, rcampbell, Byron, CEJ, Patty C, Jill, bdman, blouise, swathmore mom, and even waynbro have shaped my opinions based on their logic, and not their emotional blubbering that they are being disrespected. The sad fact is that the only time respect is worth having is when you earn it – not when it is freely given to you. You call that paltry gift “pity.”
Lady Liberty
1, March 24, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Queen of Sheba-
You are exactly what’s wrong in this country…. You sound like a damn baby.
Lady Liberty
1, March 24, 2010 at 10:20 pm
I didn’t expect to be respected for my views. I expected respect as a human being.
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I see, Lady Liberty, that your expectation of respect as a human being doesn’t extend to anyone else. Please refrain from advising anyone else on this blog about the rules for “proper debate,” especially when you begin your rebuttal by calling another commentor a “moron” or a “damn baby.”
Ending a life to save a life is not a sin.
Lady Liberty
“…. I’ve got a bullet for anyone who tries to destroy my child’s soul.”
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Doesn’t such a thought endanger your own?
And this is what our Liberal Tax Payer Dollars are buying us in School these days. Can you say Lawsuit!
Lady Liberty,
Simply post your views and accept rebuttals/refutations that we all must bear. Where herein were you disrespected for being a human being?.
Lady Liberty,
I don;t see any evidence that you’ve been disrespected as a human being, in debate people have differing opinions