Abortion/ Goverment power debate.

What any fourteen year old girl does is none of yours nor the governments business. If she wants to tell her parents she is having an abortion she can, if she doesnt want to I dont see where it is the governments business to force her to tell her parents.

Irregardless of what your beliefs are abortion is legal and is just as legal for a 9 year old as it is a 60 year old.

Although i consider myself a conservative (and i am a regestered republican), i have to agree with the left on this issue; its your choice (waits for the barry goldwater haters). When i was 14 i decided to have sex, my parents knew and bought me condoms, thats what i think all kids should do (not have sex but let there parents know if they are). Yeah i wish i hadnt done it now but then i thought i was in love, boy was i wrong. If i where a girl i would probley want an abortion, especialy if i was raped. Anyway just my thoughts on the matter...

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Respect for cadet_sergeant + 10.

Finally someone that thinks for himself and doesnt automatically spew party line crap.

I applaud your openmindedness on the subject.

I dont support abortion because to me its murder, thats just me.  I support to a degree the morning after stuff for things such as rape, incest and when the mother's health is in jepordy or a doctor thinks it needs to be done. However, when a fetus becomes more mature I think of it as murder.  The fetus cannot protect itself, it cannot have a say in what happens to it.

Dont be stupid and try and compare it to the death penalty, which I dissagree with to a point but not wholly but thats another topic.

I just feel that adoption is a far more humane and intelligent way to deal with the situation.

No go ahead with you "u es teh SEXIST" garbage.

I haven't read any of the posts besides Darur's above mine, so forgive me if I'm off topic, but I have my pro-choice days and my pro-life days. As of now, I'm more pro-choice. A girl/woman should really think it over before she does it, because she may end up regretting it madly later, but it was her choice to do the deed, so it should be her choice to have the kid or not. But she should also make it quick, instead of carrying a baby for 7 months then ditching it.

Anti-Church doesn't equal left wing....plenty of left wingers are church goers...Course, no pushing religion on people through the government and giving g.ay people the same rights as everyone else is left wing so...I guess they could be seen as mutually exclusive....

Agreed....

amishman89 - again re-read what i had wrote.  i do not think that abortion is the only way but it is the mother's choice.  not ours, not yours, not the government and not religion.  you don't understand the fact that people as young as 14 do not have the concept of implications past what they are doing now.  they don't see the consequences because of 1)  their mind isn't fully developed yet ie mature and 2)  there is a lack of information about sex.

basically the 14year old people having sex are influenced by media and alot or almost all by peer pressure.  the parents neglected the fact of talking about sex to them thinking it will make them want to go and have sex.  which in ALL studies has been proven to be opposite. 

if we want to stop things it must start early and continue throughout the child's life until they are old enough to make decisions for themselves.  but we must not preach that it is bad.  we must preach that these things are natural.  we must make them understand what can happen the first time.  we must show them we love them no matter what.  and we must be open to the idea that they might have sex. 

we kill all kinds of people every single day legally (not including aborotion), where are your arugments about that?

Wait, doesn't a minor have to have parental consent to have any other type of invasive proceedure, or any medical proceedure for that matter, done? Why is abortion considered different than, say, my mom having to sign consent papers for a knee surgery when I was 17. The doctors wouldn't begin the operation until at least one of my parents were there.

I'm not going to arue the morality of abortion, or my personal opinion of governmental interference, but that question sticks in my head when this particular part of this issue is approached.

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The abortion issue is black and white to both sides. It's either murdering a person who just hasn't happened to be born yet, or it's just part of the women's body until birth, or near birth anyway.

But, to me the parent's have a right to know what their MINOR CHILDREN are doing. It's the parent's responsibility to care for their children isn't it? Parent's have to approve other medical treatment, why not this? Oh, the political aspect of it. Too damn bad! The state is allowing a special interest group to interfere with parental rights here. If a parent can't even be informed about this, then they shouldn't be held responsible for whatever their kids do, nor should they be legally obligated to provide food, shelter, etc. Hell, emancipate them at 12 then.