Comments on: Stop The ACLU Blogburst, 8/31/06 http://www.thepiratescove.us/2006/08/31/stop-the-aclu-blogburst-83106/ If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:47:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: William Teach http://www.thepiratescove.us/2006/08/31/stop-the-aclu-blogburst-83106/comment-page-1/#comment-32733 William Teach Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:37:52 +0000 http://www.thepiratescove.us/?p=2781#comment-32733 I won't disagree with you, Mike. There are times when the situation might merit a different response. In the case of an underage girl knocked up by a family member, notification should go to a judge. Also, since said family member needs to go to jail. My issue with being agaisnt parental notification is that parents have to be notified if their kid got busted for drinking a beer, yet the ACLU doesn't want parental notification for a life changing medical procedure. I won’t disagree with you, Mike. There are times when the situation might merit a different response. In the case of an underage girl knocked up by a family member, notification should go to a judge. Also, since said family member needs to go to jail.

My issue with being agaisnt parental notification is that parents have to be notified if their kid got busted for drinking a beer, yet the ACLU doesn’t want parental notification for a life changing medical procedure.

]]> By: Mike http://www.thepiratescove.us/2006/08/31/stop-the-aclu-blogburst-83106/comment-page-1/#comment-32716 Mike Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:59:18 +0000 http://www.thepiratescove.us/?p=2781#comment-32716 Here's the problem, in my opinion. Say for this one, "The ACLU thinks that parents have no right to know if their pregnant underage daughter is seeking an abortion." Okay, under most circumstances parents should know their daughter is getting an abortion. Nearly all, yes, and they should be told by the daughter. If she can't talk to her parents, or at least her mother, about it there are much deeper problems. But that's the case in a very small number of cases. In those there could be, say, an abusive father or mother. Maybe it's was actually the father who did it... There are some sick people out there, I'm sure you'd agree. So that's the problem I have with, "A physician must inform a minor's parents". If the physician must consult the minor about it, and can use his or her own judgment as to whether the child will be put in more danger because of the parents being informed, then I'm all for it. But that's not likely to be the case. It also goes along with my view on abstinence education. I certainly think it's important to teach children that the only way to know they aren't going to get pregnant or get an STD of some kind is to abstain from having sex. But I think that it's also important to teach them about safe sex, because some of them are going to do it anyway, and isn't that better than having kids aborting their kids? Here’s the problem, in my opinion. Say for this one, “The ACLU thinks that parents have no right to know if their pregnant underage daughter is seeking an abortion.”

Okay, under most circumstances parents should know their daughter is getting an abortion. Nearly all, yes, and they should be told by the daughter. If she can’t talk to her parents, or at least her mother, about it there are much deeper problems.

But that’s the case in a very small number of cases. In those there could be, say, an abusive father or mother. Maybe it’s was actually the father who did it… There are some sick people out there, I’m sure you’d agree.

So that’s the problem I have with, “A physician must inform a minor’s parents”. If the physician must consult the minor about it, and can use his or her own judgment as to whether the child will be put in more danger because of the parents being informed, then I’m all for it. But that’s not likely to be the case.

It also goes along with my view on abstinence education. I certainly think it’s important to teach children that the only way to know they aren’t going to get pregnant or get an STD of some kind is to abstain from having sex. But I think that it’s also important to teach them about safe sex, because some of them are going to do it anyway, and isn’t that better than having kids aborting their kids?

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