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http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/18/us/texas-abortion-teen-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
"The boyfriend of a 16-year-old, pregnant Texas girl who says her parents tried to force her to have an abortion told CNN on Monday that the couple never considered terminating the pregnancy." Legal experts said that no one can force anyone, minor or not, to undergo an abortion. Monday's legal action was intended, the girl's lawyer said, to stop the parents from trying to influence their daughter to undergo the procedure.
While I agree if she wants to take on Grown Up responsibilities like a child, she should start acting like a responsible adult. But I also think if the parents want her to not become another statistic, they should be supportive and work WITH her not against her to gain stability. Personal responsibility something "pro-lifers" seem to bang on about quite frequently. They made the "adult" decision to have sex (which I actually think isn't an adult act at all since it ruins society in general but whatever people say it is) so they have to face adult consequences. Most people who have children do not have other people paying for their insurance, phones, rent, utilities, etc. Why should they be any different? Let them figure it out. After six months of realizing how hard it is to try to finish school, work, care for an infant, get some sleep, do household chores, pay bills, buy diapers, buy clothes, buy formula, burp blankets, do laundry, and try to remember they are still kids, they will be fighting, blaming stuff on each other, she will end up taking care of the kid, he will run off with his friends to forget about his responsibility that he isn't mature enough to handle, and she will start to have a negative view of men that will last the rest of her life.
Her parents certainly are not 100% responsible for HER choices. They can only impart as much knowledge as possible before she, or any child, decides they are adult enough to make their own choices. While I don't condone her parents coercion for abortion, I can understand why they might want her to consider alternate choices that keeping and raising the child herself as she is in no real position to do that without the aid of her parents. Perhaps she will consider adoption, though that comes with its own pandora's box.
Personally I feel that an abortion would be the wrong thing to do in any circumstances, and I believe what her parents are doing is wrong. Her parents should not force her to have an abortion of a child that is not even theirs, and like you mentioned they should be on her side supporting her, and giving her care, instead of forcing her to do something she does not want.
ReplyDeleteEach human being has the right to make their own decisions based on their judgement. This girl has the right to have this baby and take care of it. Even if she doesn't have the money to sustain her child she has the right to have it because it is her baby not her parents baby. It is sad to see how some people think that by taking lives away in abortion is the answer to any problem but that is lie and it is the opposite. No human being has the right in taking lives away from innocent babies that havent even seen the light of day or their moms face not even once.
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