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November 28, 2005
Roberts faces first major abortion case
New Chief Justice John Roberts will face his first major abortion case on the Supreme Court when Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood comes up before the court next week.
The new law has never been enforced, because two federal courts have said the lack of a health exception made it unconstitutional.
...New Hampshire's version would make it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion on a minor unless the doctor has written proof that at least one parent has been notified or unless the doctor certifies the girl would die without the procedure.
But unlike the parental involvement laws in most states, the New Hampshire statute does not explicitly let a doctor proceed when, in the doctor's judgment, the girl might be about to suffer serious health consequences short of death.
Nice to know where some folks’ priorities are
Posted by Jessica at November 28, 2005 10:35 AM
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So your teenage daughter has had sex that resulted in pregnancy.
Odds are that due to her worthless sex education (which is most likely not only her schools fault but her parents fault) she ended up having risky sex which led to this pregnancy.
She now has to go to her parents who were too chicken shit to educate her on safe sex (Oh! It will make her think sex is OK! Yeah. Too late) to ask for permission to get an abortion.
And of course they say no. How dare she kill the cute widdle baby!?!?!? Its a human too!
So now she is forced into motherhood or giving up a child she has grown inside of herself for 9 months (of course this isnt always the case as teen mothers can have pre-mature children. Their bodies are NOT ready for the pregnancy). And adoption aint easy folks. Especially to an emotionally impulsive teen, whos maturity level goes about as far as "I did it because I wanted to. I thought it wouldnt happen to me."
So this girl who has made her own decisions, and deals with her own decisions, is forced to be guided by people who are in no way associated with her body's decisions?
wtf.
p.s. what the heck happened to these blogs. Where is everyone. I am sorry I had to leave them a while ago because now everyone is gone :(
Posted by: Kelz at November 28, 2005 4:02 PM
Yep! The idiots keep throwing up roadblocks in their effort to deny over half the population of this country their basic right to have a choice in their personal lives and circumstance. All in the name of misguided religious dogma they are bent on imposing on the rest of us. Sounds like the Taliban, doesn't it?
I never left, Kelz. I read hear every day. Hard to post when all comments add up to zero.
Posted by: robert at November 29, 2005 3:08 AM
All the comments ARE always zero. What's the deal with this site now? Is everything just deleted after it is posted? Why have comments at all?
Posted by: Anna at November 29, 2005 9:33 AM
Well that makes me feel a bit better.
Are yall saying the comments get deleted?
Posted by: Kelz at November 29, 2005 9:29 PM
This blog was a free for all that got out of hand. I believe it was re-designed to ferret out the worse abusers. I don't think Jessica is deleting everyone, they just found it too much work to go through the trouble of registering. In other words, we got what we wished for, and now we do not post.
Posted by: robert at November 30, 2005 3:51 AM
From what I read today, the New Hampshire legislature statute was a deliberate attempt to force a Supreme Court ruling ergo the extreme position. It tells me that they are too incompetent to decide for themselves the proper legislation
Posted by: robert at December 1, 2005 3:42 AM
Welcome back, Kelsea! At least I think you are Kelsea.
In any case, people have asked for a one-line wisecrack response to the argument pertaining to parental consent for a child tp use aspirin at school.
Well, I have it.
Pro-parental consent unit: If my child needs my permission to take aspirin at school, then why shouldn't she need my permission to have a life-changing procedure?
Me: Because no child has ever been shot or evicted for wanting an aspirin.
Posted by: Malafides Lucius at December 3, 2005 1:05 PM
Lucius,
Don't you know by now that a "childs" feelings have no bearing to what parents, the school board, or the government {Local, or National} decide what is best for you? Your positions are the last to come to mind when the ultra-dense make decisions regarding your personal feelings and circumstances. Just as it applies to all women. If it doesnt make a fortune for themselves, they do not care. Time for all of you out there to realise reality. The power of the special interest groups must be usurped before you can have any actuall chance of being represented properly
Posted by: robert at December 4, 2005 5:17 AM
Kelz (kelsea?),
I can't say that all comments are just being deleted, but I took a hiatus when I noticed that "pro-lifer" posts seemed to be allowed to stand while pro-choice posts disappeared into the ether (one particular conversation with ex-dem - remember her? - springs to mind. struck me a odd, really, it was all very respectful and open-minded).
But, here we are, back again. So let's get the show on the road.
Posted by: katthemad at December 8, 2005 9:37 AM
