This year’s state legislature is all over the place…trying to honor Bono (no, not Sonny) and patronizing the pathetic little ND Peace Coalition movement with their pacifist resolution, and now this. There’s a bill before the legislature, SB 2181, that would entitle a pregnant teen to consult a physician without their parent’s knowledge. Who sponsored this thing, the pro-abortion lobby?

There’s a reason that we don’t let kids do certain things before the age of 18, even 21 in some cases: they’re not always able to make sound decisions. So how are they magically supposed to come up with good judgement when a physician presents them with medical options, dealing with their body and that of their baby, in the absence of a parent? The only logical reasoning I can find in this bill is that it’s a step toward making abortions legal without a parent’s knowledge. The way most liberal policies take effect is a little at a time, in tiny harmless steps. This looks like an insidious way to work our way towards a pro-abortion bill for North Dakota. As of now abortion is excluded in this bill, but SB 2181 paves the way.

There’s only one abortion clinic in ND that I know of, in Fargo. Presumably if there was more demand, there would be more clinics. Either too few women are getting abortions to support additional clinics to provide the murder -er, service, or it’s just plain socially unacceptable here. How do liberals change that? The kids.

As soon as teens can handle unexpected or unwanted pregnancies without the knowledge of their parents, they’re more susceptible to the tempation to just “end” the pregnancy and go on as if nothing has ever happened. No facing the music with Mom and Dad, just a trip to the clinic and hope that nobody notices. Kids are brilliant at covering things up, and this bill wants to give them accomplices with medical degrees.

As for the title of this post: let’s apply this logic to the sale of alcohol and tobacco. We don’t allow kids to purchase these items because 1) they’re unlikely to have the judgement to decide whether or when to use them, and 2) these items have the potential for severe, even life-threatening consequences from their use. Well, if the legislature makes it legal for teens to seek medical advice without a guardian knowing, how is that different? We’re talking about the health of a teen and a baby as well. Nothing could have more dire, immediate consequences for a teen’s future than their medical well-being and sound decisions made for their care. That’s why they have parents, unless the state legislature passes this nonsense.

So, if this bill passes, let’s just go ahead and let them smoke and drink and everything else too. Follow the same logic. If that seems unreasonable to you, as it does to me, then urge your state legislators to vote against this ridiculous bill. The only one it serves in the end is the pro-abortion crowd, NOT the teens they claim it helps.