Reply #38: "They have a right as a parent to know." No they don't--

[thucythucy]

especially if, as you acknowledge, not all parents are "reasonable" and "rational." Why an unreasonable, irresponsible, irrational and perhaps abusive parent should have "the right" to compromise his or her child's health and safety--by forcing her to carry and deliver a child against her will--is something you really need to explain and justify.

I'm glad you're a reasonable and responsible parent, in which case your child will most likely feel comfortable talking with you about her sexuality before she becomes sexually active. In fact, the time to begin such a discussion is BEFORE, long before, you think your child MIGHT be sexually active. That's what responsible, reasonable, rational parents do--parents of both girls AND boys.

But what this decision does is condemn many girls whose parents aren't as reasonable as you to yet more agony and abuse. And all because, instead of following the science, our leaders feel a need to make a decision that is, as you say, "probably the safest one politically."

How sad, how tragic, and how utterly disappointing that this administration evidently choses its own political "safety" over the health and safety of so many girls.

I am disgusted.