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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
Ace,
I'm a little confused. I just asked, if abortions were off the table with PP, would you still be arguing the same side - and you said yes.
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Any service PP provides to children should be with the consent of a parent, guardian or a court. That's my position regardless of abortion.
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This seems to mean that you would be fine with pulling the funds from PP.
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I don't trust PP. I think in the name of tolerance they provide services to children that gives me cause for concern. For example if i had a daughter I would want a doctor to look at her complete medical record before providing or recommending certain forms of birth control. Piece meal medical care is not as effective as comprehensive medical care. I would rather have children going to clinics that can look at them as a whole person, not just their reproductive organs (and even in that regard the evaluation may be incomplete). For children perhaps there may be a better way.
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For clarity, I asked if you opposed PP in its entirety or just the public funding of it and you say that you support all the other things PP does with public funds, just not abortions. I think these two points are contradictory. I guess I don't understand your position.
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I assume PP follows current law and I am o.k. with that unless the law is changed. Outside of that there are some changes I would make to current law regarding abortion - my position is that a viable fetus should not be killed.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Keeping information about reproduction from children leads to unwanted pregnancies and STDs. Children are less likely to seek out information if parents have to be involved.
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Perhaps statutory rape would be less of a problem if parents were aware that their daughters are getting pregnant. So, perhaps there is no obvious solution, I would error on the side of parental involvement or give a teenager the ability to get a confidential court order - but at least have some responsible adult look at the facts - someone to look out for the child. PP does not do that.