Reply #13: WAIT--you're saying

[Heddi]

that a minor isn't necessarily "emotionally ready to make that choice" when it comes to Abortion...

BUT

She *IS* emotionally ready to make that choice when it comes to giving birth to a child? To decide whether to put that child up for adoption????

I just don't understand---how can she be some dumb little doe in the woods, unable to make the "heavy" decision about abortion----but she is able to make the oh-no-big-deal decisions regarding raising a child?????

I don't think so---either she's mentally compitent in both cases, or in neither case.

And if a girl, who according to you, may not be 'emotionally ready to make that choice' regarding abortion, I sure as fuck do not want that girl to be the parent of a child for god's sake!!!!

So which is it when it comes to pregnant teenage girls? Are they automatically dumb, and if so, why are we then allowing them to give birth to and raise children? Isn't that a far heavier, and more long-lasting 'bad decision' to make over having an abortion that one may (or may not) later regret?