Posted by
Adam on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:56:45 AM
Judges in Alaska joined 23 other states and recently passed a law that makes it legal for a minor to get an abortion without the consent of a parent. Thirteen-year-old middle-school students can get pregnant, go to their local Planned Parenthood, get an abortion and the parents will never know about it. The reasoning behind it is that it 'infringes on the child's right to privacy'. What!? The key word in that phrase is CHILD! The parents have every right to know what is happening with their child up to age eighteen regardless of what radical-leftist judges think!
Not only is this disgusting because it promotes abortion and teen sex, but it is also intertwined with hypocrisy. The same libs who require that parents fill out medical forms consenting whether or not their kids can have a Tylenol if they get a headache during school, now want the parents left in the dark on subjects as serious as pregnancy.
The governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, publicly spoke out against the ruling calling it outrageous. She brought up the point that parental consent laws are inconsistent since consent is required before a child can get a piercing, a tattoo, a flu shot, and a number of other things. "Our state Supreme Court has failed Alaska. They've separated parents from their children."
All of this while a high school junior in Stafford County Virginia tries to start a pro-life and pro-abstinence club and is told she can't by administrators. She actually hired a lawyer and filed a lawsuit. Before the case went to court, the school changed their mind and allowed the club to form. I'd like give a shout out to Stephanie Hoffmeier for standing up for what she believes in and taking it as far as she did, she is a true patriot. It makes me sick to think school administrators are so quick to speak out against a club that stands for a code of conduct and moral superiority, while they aid and abet knocked-up teens with killing their babies. The public school system - another government-run success.