Long ago people married much younger and it was different. Now you are asking people well into their sexual years to be abstinent. It just is not going to work. Change the age of marriage and have the families help them out. This is what was done in the past. It would work today as well. I'm not sure of an age. Twelve comes to mind as that is when humans are becoming sexual. It could be older by a couple of years I suppose but the older it gets the more chances that the girl will be at the abortion clinic.

Well in some minds it may be a god given right. Parents do have a right to guide their children. They don't have a right to enforce many views into their heads.

To many parents want to control children as if they are toys. You can hope that a child will have your values but enforcing it as in religion is abuse. If a girl wants an abortion and the parents are Christian they are liable to force her into having that child. Not good. Notification is only a problem when the girl is terrified of her parents and their reaction. Parental notification is so bad.

By the parents forcing the girl to keep an unwanted child that would be abuse.

Apparently God believes that young women ages 12+ can handle parenthood. If a woman that young can handle parenthood, it makes no sense for them to be under the rule of their parents until they are 18.

http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/questions/faq/faq02.html
Life in Nazareth
Luke tells us that Mary was living at Nazareth when Jesus' conception by the Holy Spirit was announced by the angel, Gabriel (Lk 1:26). Lk 1:5 sets these events during the reign of Herod the Great. Scholars estimate this reign lasted from 37 - 4 B.C. Luke adds that, at that time, Mary was a virgin betrothed to "a man named Joseph of the house of David" (v. 27). The Hebrew Scriptures set the normal age for betrothal at 12 1/2.

__________________
Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born. ~Garrett Hardin

Unrealistic.

Simply not true. Depends on the age of consent in a given state. In most, 14 is the average age of consent for health care matters. By law, after the age of consent in whatever state of the union it is, parents do not have the right to make health care decisions for a consenting adolescent. You can argue if thats a right or wrong, but those are the facts.

On the contrary. There's nothing unrealistic about the law recognizing that people who are sexually mature ought to be regarded as adults.

So if the child is being raped or beaten by the guardian and they choose to go to PP where the law already states that the incident should be reported, then why shouldn't they just go to the police? I understand that the child would be scared out of their mind to go to the police but knowing that PP already should be reporting these things is no different. The minor also has the right to give the child up for adoption ya know. But I'm sure someone will have an ugly comment about that as well.

You are against forcing daughters to keep a baby because it is abuse but what is forcing that baby to never experence life because you think it will have a better life not being born.

__________________
“I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.” -- Ronald Reagan

"You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe you have been completely fair" Lyndon B Johnson

As long as that sexual maturity is NOT the product of abuse (and a significant amount is) then I have no problem with this stance.

__________________

Greenhouse gases: Any gas that, by an accident of chemistry, happens to absorb radiation of a type that the Earth, by an accident of history, would like to lose. …

There is only one constant law: The perversity of the universe tends to a maximum