Pregnant Teen Wins Abortion Battle - Yahoo! News


time for mommy and daddy to grow the hell up.

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Choice is a two way street. While it is obviously debatable to allow a woman to have an abortion, I think that everyone here and most people in general are strongly against forced abortion.

I am glad the courts sided with her. If parents could legally force an abortion on their daughter I would have lost so much faith in our legal system.

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Parents should not be allowed to force their daughters to have an abortion any more than they should be allowed to force them to have kids.

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I agree the parents are screwed up. They should not have the power to force an abortion.
However, you'll note the article used the term "coerce"...

I'm curious as to whether there will be any legal repercussions on parental rights on this issue, because the issue revolved around the parents coercing an abortion, with actions including the following:
"As part of the order, the girl will be able to use her car to go to school, work and medical appointments. Her parents had taken away the use of the car as part of their effort to force an abortion, court papers stated."

So does this mean the parents cannot punish the daughter for her choice to not have an abortion?
Or did the ruling just equate some legitimate forms of punishment (albeit agreed that it is on a totally wrong issue) to "verbal and physical threats and harassment"...

Punishing a child by refusing to allow use of the car , as a generic rule, should not be illegal.

Regardless, I am glad the court made clear that the choice WAS up to her.
Perhaps the phrasing above is just the lawyers colorful phrasing and not a new legal precedent regarding parental rights.
Hopefully the court's ruling was more succinctly worded as opposed to this article which I find has much to be desired...

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It looks like the case only pertained to coercion of abortion not other.

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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

The case logic works in the other direction, too...You may like THIS outcome, but the ruling also enforces the notion that parents can't force their daughter to carry full term either...

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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

That's perfectly acceptable as well. I believe parents should be notified if a minor seeks an abortion (except in cases where the abortion is sought due to sexual abuse from the parental figure) but they should not have any power to force the minor to carry to term.

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Honestly, knowing how teenagers are, if the parents have an agenda one way or another the teenager almost always will choose the opposite position.

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The little sh!thead will continue to have babies and dump them on her parents, the way other sh!theads do. What's so brave and new about it?