Reply #23: I'm a parent, and I don't suppourt a mandatory constent law

[LeftyMom]

You see, I have a stepdaughter who is experiencing the joy and wonder of puberty as we speak. Now if she were to find herself knocked up in a few years her Dad and I would take her down to the clinic ourselves and sign any paperwork required. The problem is that she lives not with us, but her mother, an anti-choice fundie nutburger. There's no way that woman would sign consent.

Instead, my stepdaughter would face pregnancy and birth, a prospect riskier than a surgical abotion with the best of care. Teenage mothers do not get the best of care. Then, assuming she and the hypothetical baby were okay, the same morons who don't think she's responsible enough to direct her own health care would expect her to finish her education while suppourting her hypothetical infant.

All in all, I'd rather she direct her own care.