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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
What would she notify her parents of? Simply that she's pregnant?
This is an entirely different question, closely akin to whether men should be able to force women to get abortions if they don't want the child and aren't willing to support it. Get BRC here before we start up with that one.
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Nah - with paper abortions, men can be free of unwanted children without the woman having to get an abortion. (Sidd, have you had the opportunity to use the phrase with a assoc. yet?) That sidesteps the question of whether people should have a right to control whether they have biological offspring, regardless of their parental responsibilities thereto, but nevermind.
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I like this idea best of all. Let's require that all parents have the conversation they want to have with their kids if their kids get pregnant, whether or not the kids are pregnant. Then when a minor gets pregnant, we can just assume that they have had the benefits of parental advice, and skip the notification step.
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2. In fact, you can skip the requirement. The discussion should be presumed. If it hasn't occurred, we can determine conclusively that the parents are bad parents and should have their parental rights terminated, meaning they wouldn't get notification anyhow.
FWIW, I seem to recall reading that, back in the day when abortions were generally illegal but for the health of the mother, a not uncommon "health issue" was the mother being suicidal at the idea of being pregnant & having a kid. So in some cases women could get abortions by asserting that they thought they just might kill themselves if they had to stay pregnant. I wonder if a kid can be excused from current notification requirements on the grounds that they'd rather kill themselves? In any event, it would seem to be a possible escape hatch - until you get the busy-body who then decides that what you need is involuntary incarceration in the looney hatch because you are a danger to yourself instead of an abortion. Given the number of deaths pre-Roe from botched illegal, unprofessional or self-induced abortions, I suspect that escape hatch wasn't very useful, anyhow.
