Parental rights denied by 9th Circuit Court

Originally Posted by Murdercrow

True, it is more or less. At least for the issue of abortion, although I wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing it happening for other issues as well.

How, exactly, is the government playing the role of the parent on abortion? Playing the role of the parent would be saying "You have too many kids. You must have an abortion." Playing the role of the parent would also be "I think this is wrong, so I'm not going to let it happen." As it is, they leave the decision specifically TO the biological parent.

The government definately plays the role of the parent on a lot of topics. Abortion isn't one of them.

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Originally Posted by Wesker

Those of you who think this is no big deal and that the government knows better than parents in this case should realize that a decision like this can be a two edged sword. If the educational system were to take a hard right turn (a fantasy, I know) and your kids were bing taught how evil gays are and how wrong liberal ideas were, wouldn't you then want your parental authority back, or would you still be fine with your kids being taught morals that are in direct opposition to how you're trying to raise them??

Public schools don't teach morality. They leave that to the parents.

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