For starters, “irregardless” is not a legitimate word.

Using it just makes you look dumb(er).

Seems to me, if a 12-year-old isn’t competent to make a decision about her own body, she might not be good mother material.

I knew a young woman who got pregnant and considered her choices to be abortion or suicide. I suspect she was wrong, but her relationship with her father was such she was sure he would disown her, stop paying for her education, and force her into single parenthood.

I suspect she might have been wrong. Parents tend to come through in a crisis. But nothing could change the young woman’s mindset.

As a third party observer, I have no objection to her decision to end the pregnancy. We keep in touch from time to time and the issue still weighs on her mind.

Thing is: I think there’s a difference between a fertilized egg and a walking, talking, thinking human being. You don’t.

I tend to be more interested in the post-born. You don’t.

Our only real chance for a workable healthcare system is to hope that she knows enough about what doesn’t work in the insurance field to avoid the industry altogether.

I had a friend who worked for SRS who said that she was discouraged from taking kids whose parents were so hopeless that they’d be in the system forever. They prefer to take kids they think they can really help.

I’m sick of the state always being a big bad entity that just wants to take kids away from fantastic parents. I know a little about it, because I was taken by my parents, who were good parents but I was a runaway and my parents went to them asking for help. At the time, their only option was to sign me over to the state- and then the state really dropped the ball, but at least I was safe.

They closed Prairie View to juveniles…why? Parents who want inpatient treatment for their kids cannot get it. WTH? What is going on that parents screaming for help with their kids can’t get any especially around Wichita?

Why? They’re overwhelmed with parents who could care less and those kids are the ones who will end up housed in prison. But instead of it just being them in prison, its going to also be the ones whose parents had no place to turn for help.

Kathleen Sebelius will work hard as Secretary of Health and Human Services. She has experience in what does and doesn’t work in the insurance field and she’s a smart lady.

If agreement on health care reform isn’t reached by October 15th, the Democrats have already decided to attach it to the budget reconciliation bill. According to Senate rules, budget resolutions and reconciliation bills are subject to straight up-or-down votes. Filibusters are not allowed.

We’ll have health care reform and enough years to tweak it, work out the kinks, make it better and improved. Everyone will benefit, including all those who will scream about ’socialized’ medicine.

Oh, btw, abortion will remain legal and safe. With a lot of hard work, due diligence and dignity for all women, we can also make abortion rare, the last option, always a private matter between a woman her doctor and her God. We can educate and protect future generations of females and work toward eliminating unwanted pregnancies. It will happen!

The state should be taking MORE kids away. If you ask me, if they take your kids they have a darn good reason to do so because it takes a LOT to take someone’s kids anymore.

Conservative-turned-liberal writer David Brock, who worked for the Times’ sister publication Insight on the News, said in his book Blinded by the Right that the news writers at the Times were encouraged and rewarded for giving news stories a conservative slant. In Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy, Brock wrote “the Washington Times was governed by a calculatedly unfair political bias and that its journalistic ethics were close to nil.”

No doubt.

I’ve presented many questions to the advocates of illegal abortion they’ve twisted and squirmed away from answering.

Yeah, every 12-year-old girl should be a virgin and every baby should be planned and wanted.

But CONs love to compartmentalize their prejudices and resent having to face the natural consequences of their ideologies.

Cat’s paw and Big Sugar: reasons #5,684,259,884,236 and 5,684,259,884,237 that the GOP has been relegated to Alabama and Salt Lake.

And although it’s a ridiculous question and answering it raises it to a level of respectability it does not desesrve, no. HHS Secretary Sebelius will not have a conflict of interest.

“That girl should get herself to PP, or SRS, and REPORT being pregnant by perv Daddy…. Get perv Daddy off the streets and out of her bed… where he belongs…” [upthread]

THIS is what should happen…. Normally, perv Daddy will end up behind bars, and the child(and siblings if any) in foster care… Try checking with SRS with a hypothetical situation, and ask what they would do….

As ws mentioned WAY upthread, the liklihood of the child having an abortion that costs a lot of $$$ is minimal… More likely, the girl will have the child legally adopted to parents that want it…

I worked one case a number of years ago, where the pregnant teen girl AND her not yet born baby were adopted by the same couple…

PM,maybe I am missing something here. So how do you remove the 14-year old for the abusive parent(s)?

Do the abortion in secret? Seems to me keeping everything a secret just keeps the abused child in an abusive situation. Not something I would want to do.

Now, maybe you could answer the question that I asked, instead of making up one that you have pre-determined an answer to….

Do you want to extend parental authority SO FAR as to NOT allow the young girl to keep her baby?? THAT was my question, if you would go back and read it… You refused to answer earlier….

You’ve got a stable income and obviously a lot of love.

I bet you could adopt one or two of the 871 Kansas kids looking for a family.

Right?