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kiahzero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 04:48 PM
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83. Why do you support parental notification laws?
As soon as a minor becomes pregnant, they are given the power to make decisions regarding the medical care for themselves and the fetus. Carving out an exception to this rule for abortions and abortions alone is not only ridiculous, it should be unconstitutional.

As to who is the the "REAL" problem, I would disagree. The pro-choice crowd can be just as dangerous. For example, I'm pretty sure they pressured Clinton into vetoing a bill that banned partial birth abortions that contained a health exception clause. The net result is that the Republicans were able to use the issue as a wedge and eventually pass a ban that contained no exception clause. In other words, we are worse off than we would have been if Clinton had simply signed the original law.

No, we're not - nothing changed, because the without a health exception clause, the law is unenforcable.
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