Reply #182: That's the point -- I wouldn't have.

[southerngirlwriter]

The kid wouldn't have been my dad's, and I have yet to see anyone advocate judicial bypass "because my parents are conservative assholes who will probably kidnap me."

That's not a crime until they do it, at which point it's too late.

And if the parents aren't dangerous, there's no need for the law. She'll have told them.

I had girlfriends get pregnant in high school. The ones whose parents were going to yell, scream, cry, throw something at the wall, get despondent, be heartbroken, etc. -- those are the ones who got told.

The ones who didn't get told were the ones who would have been so embarrassed by a pregnant child that they would just beat her and hopefully induce a miscarriage.

Or worse.

If being a conservative asshole who thinks they own their daughter's body was a crime, large percentages of Americans would be behind bars. It's not.

Judicial bypass would NOT have applied to me. That's my point.