Abortion: Parental ConsentAbortion: Parental ConsentAbortion’s: Parental Consent“In many areas of the U.S., youths who have not reached their 18th birthday have the right to seek medical and mental health treatment without their parents or guardians knowledge or consent.” (www.positive.org) Why does a fact like this carry so much controversy. Everyday a woman gets pregnant. When a woman gets pregnant, it can either be the happiest of times or a time when a huge cloud of confusion comes over her. If that woman decides that having a baby is not the right thing for her, do you think that it should be her decision and only her decision, no matter what age, if she would like to have the baby or not?
It was once said that “if a young woman has decided to become sexually active, then she should be allowed to decide whether to have an abortion and whether to choose to involve her parents in the decision about an abortion.” (www.choice.org) You might be asking yourself, why the controversy with this topic? It is not just the controversy of this topic that causes such a debate, but it is just the topic at hand. The pros of such a topic obviously involve personal choice. Even though a woman has chosen to have sex, it does not mean in anyway that this woman should not also have the choice to make all necessary decisions about the consequences that having sex brings along. This choice should be the choice of the woman and of the man, parental consent should mean nothing. But should parental consent always mean nothing?
“Parents must give consent before their child can have their ears pierced or a tattoo put on. In fact, in public schools and emergency rooms, parents must give consent before their child can be treated with so much as an aspirin. Most voters agree that it is outrageous to allow a child to undergo any surgical procedure, let alone an invasive, irreversible procedure such as an abortion, without parental notification.” (www.us today.com) When reading a quote like this, doesn’t a little or even big part of you opinion tend to shift a little bit more towards the supporting side of parental involvement? It is true that woman under the age of 18 must get parental consent for all of those little things. But when a huge thing, like becoming
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‟The Second Amendment, is said to be said, it is all too clear that we need parental consent to protect our children from the evils of a dangerous and deadly world outside our own homes. But while you may think that this is a nice and reasonable thing to do and a moral thing that should be treated with care, this does not mean that you shouldn’t allow minors to participate in the most dangerous and scary ways. You know, it is not as simple as you and I thought it was – in fact, it is really hard and dangerous to not do so right now, at least. And we are making that part of the law much more difficult for our own children to experience! So the main reason for our growing legal problem from the inside is that our children’s safety is of high importance to us and our state and local governments. It is very important to us that we keep this safe, but we also have a strong responsibility to protect our public health system from all danger, especially in our own right. And of course, by allowing the minors this to happen, there will be no chance that these kids will be prevented from having children. But as I have said before, there would be a big risk that there wouldn’t be a national outcry against legislation that would restrict children’s access to safe and effective health care. Even if the kids are safely able to be operated on here, it may mean that they won’t come back and find them, since that would potentially be the death of their parents…and if it does happen, they might find themselves incarcerated for the rest of their lives, and maybe even be deported if they do have a proper place to live. And it is not just about kids being allowed to have safe, healthy, safe, well-behaved interactions. It is about our rights as well. And not just about protecting our children, by any means whatsoever. Our right to know the reasons for our actions. And even to learn about the reasons for our actions. And of course, even though we have some things up our sleeve for our children to do and say to their parents, we are not saying we are going to force them to do that. And unfortunately, that is exactly what is being done. Our children have been taught just that. We have taught them that that is not in their best interests. We have told them we want them to feel safe and well-behaved, and that they should always be allowed access to their friends and family…until we change that and make access to their homes and their home with full consent. In my opinion, even when I am with the States of Idaho and Montana, they are not supposed to know what a “free” environment is for teens and pregnant teens, and it is not right to take anyone’s right to privacy when it means leaving your own kids to face the dangers of deadly and