NARAL's Minor Threat
On the NARAL Pro-Choice America blog, Jessica Valenti, mentioning an effort in Congress to make it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to have an abortion, writes:
Sigh. When will the f[-----] up logic ever stop? How is a minor not old enough to make the decision to have an abortion, but old enough to have a baby? Please.
For the same reason a minor is old enough to grow breasts, but not old enough to walk into a hospital and demand the doctors lop the things off. (NARAL's buddies at Planned Parenthood Teenwire are doing their part to encourage teens to get that medical procedure as well.)
Saner pro-choicers like Joe Kelley acknowledge the lunacy of states' making abortion the only medical procedure for which a minor does not require a parent's permission. Kelley quotes Cam Edwards, who writes:So let me get this straight: I have to get a phone call from my son's school before they can give him an aspirin, but I'm not allowed to get a phone call from my daughter's doctor before they perform an abortion?
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