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I hate to talk about abortion and....

Okay. I hate to discuss abortion and related things. But again, logic must prevail.

In California, we are voting on whether to require parents to be notified about a minor child getting an abortion. Think logically here people. Sometimes logic is thrown out.

We do not allow minors to vote.
We do not allow under 21 drinking.
We do not allow under 16 getting a driver's license.
We have other age restrictions on driving.
We do not allow minors to get a piercing without parent approval.
We do not allow minors to get tattoos without parental approval.
We do not allow most operations without parental approval.
We have child labor laws.
We force all children under 16 to go to school.
We are banning candy and sodas from schools.

And we think we are a better society for keeping minors under control.
Why? Because they are minors. We as a society do not believe that minors have the capacity to make good choices. Except when we politicize something. Then we throw caution to the wind and logic out the window.

Can you explain to me why we want and applaud parental notification on piercings, but not on abortions? Abortion is not a simple procedure. It is MAJOR surgery. Period.

Ask yourself this:
"Would I want my 13 year-old daughter to get breast implants without me knowing?"
Funny how because breast implants are not a political football, you would scream,
"NO! My daughter is no getting such nonsense!"
Exactly. So think logically here, people. Is society better or worse because parents must be notified? If you say worse, then you must not agree with any laws restricting minors. You cannot have it both ways.

On a side note, my wife is a nurse and I read her nursing journals frequently.
It seems there is a consensus among nursing professionals that c-section deliveries have gotten out of hand. That women and doctors are doing it for no other reason than convenience. And they are trying to stop this unwarranted and unnecessary elective surgey.

Why does this strike me as odd?
Because many nurses work in plastic surgery centers. Centers where women get all sorts of elective surgeries just for the sake of looking better. But they are major surgeries and women get hurt and die. And I have never heard anyone talk against such things. Therefore, how can you tell women to stop having c-sections? To them it is just a choice of convenience.

Where am I leading? Because women and girls get abortions frequently for no other reason than just ending a pregnancy. And we applaud this. Then wonder why we cannot stop c-sections.
Elective c-sections are not the best way to deliver. But the medical community cannot stop this until we make women know that EVERYTHING they do to their bodies has complications and MANY THINGS are not needed. As long as we speak out of both sides of our mouths we are going nowhere fast.

If a woman has a right to an abortion, she has a right to a c-section. And any other elective procedure. And to argue against one you must argue against the others.

No medical procedure is completely simple and completely safe.
When will we wake up to this fact? And you want your daughter to get any procedure she wants? Without you even being notified??????

Logic. Plain and simple.

posted by Surftiger @ 9:05 AM