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Originally posted by bilmore
We have a Constitutional right to free speech, too, but no one ever questioned my parents' right to forbid me from publishing anti-Catholic tracts.
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Tats and ear rings she can get later, once she is 18, if you refuse now. That abortion thing is time sensitive. And if a parent refuses medical treatment (see Christian Scientists) for their kids, the State will step in.
I mean I see your point, and for any decent parent the devastating thing wouldn't be the pregnancy news, the devastating thing would be to learn she didn't think she could tell you. But abortion is different then the examples you bring up- if for no other reason that it is so emotionally charged an issue (which was one of your original points).
