Once again, the Monitor shows its willingness to have Government be a wedge between parents and a minor child over the issue of abortion, even as it makes the attempt to have it look otherwise. From their editorial:
…The issue might seem like common sense if it’s framed only as an issue of parents’ rights. After all, advocates say, they must be told before their kids are given an aspirin by the school nurse – why shouldn’t they be told before their daughters receive something so momentous as an abortion? No one wants to imagine their 15-year-old in trouble and themselves out of the loop.
"only as an issue of parents’ rights"? Really – only? This is simply a "mind brushing" here a la Star Wars ("…there’s nothing to see here…", as if the Force is with them). Frankly the major premise of the argument, Planned Parenthood pro-abort aficionados aside, IS parental rights and from the get-go, are trying to down play the importance of the issue with a "put-down" (er, shove-down?). The only reason why the "framing" schtick only makes sense is if one is trying to "re-frame" the issue to something else.
Which, indeed, what the Monitor is trying to do. As you read the whole piece, it seems that the Monitor has also gotten into the farming biz as they later throw up so many strawman arguments, they must really be farmers (good thing, given the current state of the print media biz – unless the loonies at the FCC get their way and start to subsidize the news-biz as heartily as they do agri-biz)
However, instead of stopping at the last sentence of the ‘graph (and which would have given them some semblance of sanity , they decide to play "Titanic-iceberg tag" with logic.
But we encourage legislators to think hard about the rights of vulnerable teenage girls whose fear of confiding in a parent or a judge – perhaps misguided, perhaps chillingly justified – would keep them from seeking help at all. It is their health and safety that must be paramount.
And that "right" that a minor child would have in this situation is…what? The only one that can come to mind is that normally given to women who have achieved the age of majority – and sadly, that is the Right to kill an unborn child. I keep listening and reading this blather of…
TEA Party: Taxes Enough Already. A general philosophy that Government has become too enthralled with using other peoples’ money. That it has become too big, too intrusive, too cumbersome, way too inefficient, and too far removed from the principles enshrined in our Founding documents: protecting individual Rights and property and a limited government.
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Once again, we’re seeing the pronouncements, even in the background of Climategate and Al "I created the Internet" Gore’s (let’s see again, how big is his carbon footprint?) admission that his support for corn based ethanol was just pandering to farmers to bolster his run for President. Once again, it is easy to see what the real agenda is.