Was this abortion a criminal act?

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Was this abortion a criminal act? Was there a conspiracy to deny the girl’s mother her right to be a parent involved in decisions regarding her daughter’s health and welfare?

Do parents have rights?

Does anyone have the legal right to strip parents of their parental rights when they have committed no criminal act?
 
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komonews.com/news/local/88971742.html

Was this abortion a criminal act? Was there a conspiracy to deny the girl’s mother her right to be a parent involved in decisions regarding her daughter’s health and welfare?

Do parents have rights?

Does anyone have the legal right to strip parents of their parental rights when they have committed no criminal act?
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I suppose the question is how far do parental rights extend? No one thinks they are unlimited.

Health care of minor teens can often be a difficult subject to negotiate. They are rational, though lacking experience. They also are the “owners” of their bodies in a conscious sense that smaller children aren’t. It comes up in other cases to, like when a teen wants to refuse a type of treatment the parent wants. There seem to be no definitive answers.

I think with contraception and abortion, the feeling is that if a person could have a baby, she could be a parent, and has crossed the line to where they are making such decisions on their own. After all, if she had the baby, her parents would not be able to tell her how to parent it, or have parental access to the baby’s health care.

I think what is disturbing though is it sounds like the girl was encouraged not to talk to her parents. That would be clearly inappropriate to me. Though sometimes newspaper articles are not trustworthy about such things.
 
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It comes up in other cases to, like when a teen wants to refuse a type of treatment the parent wants. There seem to be no definitive answers.

Health, education, and welfare are the primary responsibilities of the parents, not the State. If a child doesn’t want to attend a private school selected by the parents, can a private agency employed by the public school step in and conspire with the child (without the knowledge of the parents) to stay in a public school?

How does that scenario differ from the one in the abortion article?
 
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