A fifteen year old girl is injured while playing soccer. She is taken to the emergency room. She is told that her injury is not life threatening, however she may need some minor surgery to correct a problem that could plague her sports activity for the rest of her life. Both parents are out of town and unavailable. Sports being important to the young lady, she tells the doctor to go ahead with the procedure.
The question: is there any state in the union that would allow the physician to continue treatment with any kind of “minor surgical” procedure?
The answer: of course there isn’t. Not without some sort of parental consent.
The same girl, with the same unavailable parents is taken to the same doctor, only this time the injury is a little different. Several small blood clots have formed around the injury and could possibly threaten her life by moving to the heart and causing a fatal attack
The question this time is whether the doctor has the right to continue treatment in order to save the life of the child without parental consent.
The answer is of course he does have every right to continue treatment. With or without parental consent, the life of his patient is primary.
Pro abortion advocates are screaming to high heaven (oxymoron?) that New Hampshire’s Parental Notification Law is un-constitutional because it does not make an exception for the “health” of the Mother. On this point they are right. Legislators who helped draft the law tell me that if the word “health” where used it would simply be too ambiguous and allow abortion providers to bypass its intent. Instead of using the word “health”, Parental Notification supporters added the following exception:
I. No notice shall be required under RSA 132:25 if:
(a) The attending abortion provider certifies in the pregnant minor's medical record that the abortion is necessary to prevent the minor's death and there is insufficient time to provide the required notice.
In My Humble Opinion New Hampshire’s Parental Notification law is good legislation, passed by clear thinking people who do not want some unknown Physician usurping our rights as a parent. The word “health” would simply allow abortionist to bypass any parental notification and continue to influence our minor children into making catastrophic decisions which possibly could impact their emotional well being for the rest of their lives. All without the parents knowing.
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