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(5,169 posts)To tell a child what they should do is teabaggerish. Children are just young adults and need to be allowed to find their own path in life.
A parent has no right to tell a young lady what to do with her body if she gets pregnant, correct? Her body, her choice. Any laws that restrict the right of a woman OF ANY AGE are regularly attacked. We celebrate when the ability of a parent to block their daughter from having an abortion is restricted.
Yes, it sucks that she will likely perish young. I don't know the young lady from any other stranger in the world, but reading about what she is going through, and knowing her child may lose their mother, is a gut punch.
But do we have the standing to say her parents should have restricted the choices she was making with her body? To me, the phrase "My body, my choice" is about a whole lot more than abortion.