tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575039159861307434.post7409564751341562123..comments2017-09-25T23:42:57.442-08:00Comments on Alaska Watch: Teens To Make Their Own Abortion DecisionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575039159861307434.post-80214248180631789582007-11-06T06:52:00.000-09:002007-11-06T06:52:00.000-09:00Alec said... Relax, have you actually read the ...Alec said...<BR/><BR/> Relax, have you actually read the decision?<BR/><BR/><BR/>No, I won't relax. 'Enlightened' social policies like this are eliminating millions of children each year as birth-control. <BR/><BR/>If Planned Unparenthood is behind this, you can be sure it is bad policy. Bad policy and bad for children. In 'civil' societies murder is usually considered poor behavior.<BR/><BR/>Maybe we aren't so civil after all.snowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15937650055145558168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575039159861307434.post-62759285031841126602007-11-05T19:55:00.000-09:002007-11-05T19:55:00.000-09:00Relax, have you actually read the decision? First...Relax, have you actually read the decision? <BR/><BR/> First, the Alaskan constitution has a privacy claus, which makes the privacy protections in Alaska broader than those contained in the U.S. constitution. Second, the court was addressing a statute that gave parents, essentially, a veto over an abortion decision made by the minor, unless the minor manages a judicial bypass. From the opinion:<BR/><BR/>"The Act also includes a judicial bypass procedure whereby<BR/>a minor may file a complaint in superior court and obtain judicial authorization to<BR/>terminate a pregnancy if she can establish by clear and convincing evidence either that<BR/>she is “sufficiently mature and well enough informed to decide intelligently whether to<BR/>have an abortion” or that being required to obtain parental consent would not be in her<BR/>best interests."<BR/><BR/> While the court invalidates the consent law, it is important to note that 1) it does not address the issue of notification, which it identifies as a less restrictive means of serving a compelling state interest (and it recognizes the interests here as compelling) and 2) the comparison to other restrictions is ridiculous. No doubt the court would invalidate a "Parental Consent and Religious Freedom Restoration Act" that purported to give parents veto power over major surgery necessary to save their life, or that subjected it to judicial bypass by "clear and convincing evidence." Or perhaps that would be legislation OK with you, even if it put, say, Jehova's Witnesses' children at great risk of (involuntary) death?Court Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011593678230574302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575039159861307434.post-74449218690582006152007-11-05T19:09:00.000-09:002007-11-05T19:09:00.000-09:00Amber, I am glad you survived. With your experien...Amber, I am glad you survived. With your experience and concern, I think your voice would be an important addition to Governor Palin's email inbox.snowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15937650055145558168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575039159861307434.post-5225217630182339782007-11-05T10:28:00.000-09:002007-11-05T10:28:00.000-09:00That is very dis hearting that, that sort of discu...That is very dis hearting that, that sort of discussion could be left to a teen to come to conclusion on, but yet we are so strict with other things such as body piercings and tattoos which all that is their own body a teen right to choose abortion is another life. And who knows if the youth is suffering from exceptions or other issues or addictions and this is just an easy out is that what we want to be sending out kids easy outs instead of do what is right and the ones who you will need will be there and if not others will. That is what happened to me I found Insightpros.com and they help me become a survivor instead of a prisoner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com