That's a good point.

Legally, parents CAN make children undergo medical procedures that they do not want.

Are you saying that most generally people are not honest when providing this information?

I would imagine that most people are. But the laws you want wouldn't apply to them in the first place.

They would apply to the ones going behind the other parents back. It would not only be easy to circumvent those laws, but is usually done for good reason.

The basic law and regulations have to be based on what is best for all.
As an individual you work on the level you deal with in seeing each individual. This does not mean a law should not be in place to protect the majority of that "all".

From what I have seen this is not always the case. Hateful bigots are out there no doubt. It is not a perfect world but on a whole we are all supposed to try.

It is his loss (her father) he holds such hatred in his heart. Not all situations are like that. I had an uncle that swore a certain race was the worst. He spewed more hateful words and slanderous statements than most can imagine. His only child married a person of another racial background. That uncle adores his grandchildren regardless the fact is they are of mixed race.

That is as good as saying, "Shop lifters should be ignored because they get away with it anyhow".

Generally people are lousy liers when working to pull off something they know is wrong. What would it hurt to ask for a little accountability?

Really are you sure that abortion is 10 times safer than childbirth????? There are two studies that reveal that the Death Rate by Abortion is three times higher than the death rate by childbirth.......

Pregnancy-associated mortality after birth, spontaneous abortion or induced abortion in Finland, 1987 - 2000 which appeared in the American Journal of OB/GYN showed that the death rate for women who carried to term was 28.2 per 100,000 whereas the death rate for women who had abortions was 83.1 per 100,000. This study reviewed records of women over 13 years.

Deaths associated with pregnancy outcome: a record linkage study of low income women that appeared in the Southern Medical Journal looked at deaths of women who had children and abortions for up to two years following. It found women who had abortions were twice as likely to die within the following two years as compared to those who carried to term. The study also found that this elevated mortality persisted for up to eight years and that women who had abortions were three times more likely to die of circulatory disease and five times more likely to die from cerebrovascular disease.

In Roe v Wade, the Court accepted as fact that abortion was safer than childbirth, especially in early stages of pregnancy which helped to formulate the trimester ruling. In the ruling the court as stated that the states have the authority to regulate abortion to protect the womens health only at the point at which death rates associated with abortion exceeded those associated with child birth.

So obviously it would seem these studies disprove that abortion is safe, and as such, if we want our young women to be safe than instead of encouraging them to abort, instead we should encourage them to rear. Or to use your wording, REQUIRE them to give birth.

Oh yes, facts are stupid things.

dmk