Reply #96: so say a kid of 14 is pregnant

[sweetheart]

and if she carries the thing to term, she'll be 15 when it is born.
Then she is your "minor" for 3 more years until she fucks off and
never sees you again, BUT IS BURDENED with the result of the choice
for decades after you've washed your hands. It hardly smells of
deep parental concern, and rather meddling in another adult's life.

In truth, i see each case in this regard as unique, and that no law
should prevent a child from getting proper care for their family
planning needs. There are so many sub-issues about the age of the
"impregnator", and whether that be a family relation, and whether
the parents are involved with the child, or whether we're only talking
about the legal guardian... so much complexity.

In that all, i would hope that the girl with a future who gets
knocked up by her high school boy friend at 15, has a choice beyond
the rigid views of her slave-master parents.

Given your concerns about slavery, i think it is important to view
it on those terms. There were masters of olde who were absolute
in thier views that all slave women should inform their owners before
undertaking medical prodedures and their arguments run pretty
similar to yours. It begs the critical focus on making sure
we're not creating a new kind of enslavement, with unnecessary
legislation when the human race has done pretty OK without this
fuzzy stuff for all this time.