So much for the "culture of life", eh?

Jesus made it very clear that the culture of life, the foundational doctrine for his preachings and life, applied only to men, most commonly white men.

Men impregnate women, and men unimpregnate them, when and how we see fit. I for one can't wait for Missouri to pass their 12-month pregnancy law, requiring women to stay pregnant for 3 additional months and finally bringing us one step closer to ridding the world of these paganistic partial-year births.

Ahem. South Dakota recently banned abortion... for nearly any reason. I didn't expect anything more from the Dakota's.

All it does it make me really happy that I live in the North East which is also where I plan to have my children.


and it also makes me really really sad. My one friend in high school lost her first baby, after her mother literally beat the shit out of her, tossed her down 2 flights of steps and left her in the house. She would have died, had her boyfriend not gone to see her and taken her to the hospital. At 15, you really shouldn't be forced to see the remains of your unborn child on the floor. So much for parents and 'who pays the bills'...

The worst aspect of this is the fact that there are going to be countless parents who refuse to let their children seek medical care because of the "poor choices" that their children "will just have to live with" because they "should have thought about that before they got pregnant".

The children that are smart enough to seek care should not be denied care. That's just how things should work...it's unfortunate that it doesn't.

Wrong. White men run the church and this is how they interpret the Bible. I believe Jesus stopped a group of people from stoning a prostitute. If Jesus had such low opinion of women, why did he appear to his mother and female friend FIRST, and not his male disciples?

Of all the people who have ever existed I don't believe Jesus had any pretentious beliefs. His core value was to treat others as you'd wish to be treated. Remember, Jesus didn't hang out with the high prophets, he helped the poor, the mistreated and the fucked by common society.

Sorry for the biblical rant... Current Christianity burns me up, with all the hypocrisy running rampant through the pews. With people shouting bible verses, that they haven't even studied...

I REALLY hope that in the case of your friend, her mom was charged with SOMETHING! (Manslaughter, murder, attempted murder....anything???)

Wow, your headline is not in the least bit inflammatory or misleading, and the text is nowhere near reactionary.

(BTW- I'm in support of private abortions & STD treatments for 14 & up (depending). Younger than that is unassailably a child. Legally, a parent can be held responsible for children's actions until they're 18, so the parent should therefore be the final arbiter. If you don't like it, change the law to make kids legally adults. But to automatically draw a line between responsibility and chattel is ignorant at best, reactionary at worst. I would lean towards the latter, since the emotion in your words belie some underlying issues you may want to work on. Anyway, this is not "NEWS:" This is an editorial, and a poorly written & conceived one at that.)

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Well, really, in my opinion under eighteens shouldn't be having sex at all. That's my opinion though and yes, a lot of people will disagree. I think the girls should be able to get help without going through their parents, BUT I think they should be strongly advised to talk to Mum and Dad about it. That's um, what they're there for. It's terrible that we have a culture where people are afraid to turn to their parents for things.

If indeed their parents would do whatever kind of harm to their daughter upon finding out what she's been up to, then they shouldn't have parental responsibility for her at all? At least, that's how the care system works as far as I understand it. Hey I'm probably wrong.

Does pregnancy only happen to girls? Funny but I thought you had to have a boy to make a baby too.

advising a pregnant teen to tell her parents is one thing.

putting a legal roadblock between said teen and a doctor is an entirely different story.

and obviously a man is involved in conception, but you're missing the point that the guy always has the option to walk away, whereas the girl is stuck with a much heavier (literally) burden.

horrible to hear that. And I sure hope I'm not the only one to think it's all starting to come down to money. It's like who cares about the girls and their babies, unless there's someone willing to pay. I think I'm starting to like the fact I'm a guy and the fact I get free (even if kinda sucky at times) medical care.

everyone knows there is no male presence in a teenage pregnancy.

Men don't have to go to the doctor for prenatal care, thus this legislation doesn't affect them.

Fortunately, I dont think hospitals in ND refuse treatment to people in imaginary life and death situations, like male dragon attacks, for example.