regardless if you agree with abortion or not, please answer me this?

Question

If your daughter is at school, and she is caught with a cough drop, and the nurse sends a note home with her, to say she cannot have cough drops at school without permission- however that same daughter goes to the nurse and wants a referral to an abortion clinic in most states she gives it too her without parental consent. So a cough drop is more serious than a life time decision like abortion? This really happened- my daughter had cough drops she was not pregnant- but she knows of girls who have gone to nurses office pregnant. What do you think?

for information police and others that do not understand what cough drops have to do with students going to the nurse pregnant.
PARENTAL CONSENT. What is so hard to understand.

thanks Old Dawg my daughter and I will do that- however the answer is the government tell us what we can and cannot do-

my daughter was in middle school when this happened-

ok- so abortion is a choice that no one should get involved in except the girl- so then why are school nurses involved? Also taking a cough drop for a cough is a choice too.
I do want to apologize to the one that wrote about tainted cough drop.

one more thing- a person under the age of 18 if they need a surgical procedure for anything but abortion- they have to have a parent sign- my daughter had minor surgery a couple yrs. ago and they would not do it without my permission. Interesting huh?

How many deaths per day from taking cough drops? How many deaths per day in America alone from abortions- 4,000. Also the statistics of parents that would abuse their kids or kick them out if they are pregnant are very low-

Answer 1

I think it is crazy. Teen age girls should have to counsel with their parents before getting an abortion.

Think about this. Anybody under 18 cannot vote or enter into a contract. Why is it that way? Because they are not yet mature enough and do not have the sound judgement to make those kinds of decisions. (actually I think most people are in their 20's before they get to that point.) But yet, we let them choose to have an abortion without parental advise. I think I would rather them vote then get murder a baby.

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There are only a handful of girls who will be kicked out or have their lives endangered when talking to her parents. In this case- where their lives are endangered, then they need to be referred to family services, not an abortian clinic.

People this is not a religious issue- Taking a human life is MURDER- a fetus IS a Human life- therefore it is MURDER!!

Why don't we start teaching our children responsibility istead of giving them the easy way out.

Answer 2

As ludicrous as this seems, I can see the flawed logic. Technically, a cough drop is an OTC drug. The school likely has a policy against children bringing OTC drugs to school. The policy seems to state that the course of action is a note sent to the parent. Thankfully they didn't treat it like it was crack cocaine! Schools do tend to overreact these days.

The nurse's referral to the abortion clinic is simply part of her job as a medical professional. Beliefs are irrelevant. Those against abortion may disagree, but think of it this way: What if the school nurse dispensed medical advice according to her beliefs? What if her religion didn't allow her to have a blood transfusion? Then, let's say a child was bleeding badly and taken to the hospital and the nurse somehow (I'm stretching it here) used words to prevent that child from receiving lifesaving blood. I'm sure there is a better analogy, but hopefully I made my point.

Drugs are defined and so is the school policy about drugs.

Medical advice is entirely different. The nurse was following policy with the cough drops, and doing her job as a medical professional with the abortion situation.

What if the girl had asked about adoption and she hadn't answered, then got an abortion? Then everyone against abortion would be angry with the nurse. The nurse just answered a question regarding the health of a student.

Answer 3

I do not agree with the popular notion that society has the right to regulate what an individual does to/with their own body. The nurse may or may not have the legal right but certainly had no moral right to prevent your daughter from taking harmless cough drops. As for referrals to an abortion clinic, most kids would do something stupid (like suicide) if they were forced to reveal the truth to their parents. When a young women is old enough to get herself pregnant she has the moral right to manage the situation any way she wishes. Too many parents imagine older children are their chattel property, literally slaves. For every mother and daughter who have a trusting loving relationship, there are ten who can barely tolerate each others presence. It is utterly barbaric to require a pregnant teenager to reveal her situation to her parents as a condition for obtaining an abortion. Bottom line: it's her body, not yours!

Answer 4

Well, I think that if a child has problems with coughing and can't take pills like Tylenol to help with that for what ever reason should be able to use cough drops as much as needed as long as they do not treat them like candy, but when they will give a child a abortion referral and say that okay but bringing a few cough drops to school isn't, it's just crazy to do that! I think personally that abortion should be illegal in the United States because if the teen or young adult isn't ready for that responsibility then they just don't need to get them selves in that position! well that's all i hope my answer was good enough for you!

Answer 5

Schools are retarded. I used to carry (and hide) a little bottle of advil in case I got a headache or something because the school nurse wouldn't give it to me. But I've never heard of it descending to cough drops. Girls should be able to get confidentiality on abortion issues; that's why Planned Parenthood exists. I think the school should just let your daughter have cough drops, and teach girls (and boys) to use condoms during sex.

Answer 6

I do not think the school should give out referals for that, but I do think there are places that if a teen goes to, can get the help they need. I know a woman whose daughter is older now. She was a teenage mother and her father (good precher loving christian father) threw her out of the house. Some other girls probably suffer worse. I find that it is very unfortunate on things like this. For me, my boyfriend and I always pose questions about what we want for our kids. I posed the "what if our daughter came home and told us she was pregnant?" question. We are hoping like hell that if it happens she will come to us because we have created an environment where, even though she messed up (not a little, but a lot) that they can come to us and get the help they need. Unfortuantly, this is not always the case. Some girls will get beat up, some will get kicked out, ect.
Anyways, the woman is actually writting up a proposal to get a home started for girls in this situation who are kicked out of hteir house just like she was. Ultumatily we need more programs like that where the options aren't tell your parents or secretly get an abortion.

Answer 7

I must agree with the poster on this subject, b/c i see the Irony she is trying to draw. Politically speaking, we are taught that abortion is an individual choice, but biblically abortion and murder affect a whole nation, and the blood of babies cries out to GOD, so what i'm saying is what we do individually does have a cultural affect too. I've never known cough drops to lead to misappropriated abortions that have led to babies born without limbs, girls becoming barren, or large amounts of depression. EVen though it's an individual choice, i don't think the nurses should have the most say so.

Answer 8

They have nothing to do with each other. Cough drops are part of the interminable War on Drugs.-- a different moral crusade altogether, but still going strong.
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actually I think it's more an issue of liability. if your daughter chokes or has a negative reaction to the cough drop, they don't want you suing. another consequence of our lawsuit happy culture. whereas, laws define exactly how schools must treat a potential abortion, for many of the reasons here
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And on the issue of minors and abortion consent... it does cross the line between her as both a minor and an adult. If the pregnant girl gets pushed in to keeping a baby she didn't want, she will be responsible for raising a child for18 years. Most times they both become burdens of the state. The issue of a minor keeping her baby will deeply affect her adult life, so she should be the primary decision maker and be given complete information -- including adoption or keeping the baby. If her relationship with her parents is good, she should naturally be encouraged to consult with them. What if she wants to keep the baby, and the parents want her to abort ... who should prevail?

Answer 9

i've got confidence that abortion isn't incorrect, as in specific circumstances, sure, that's conceived via ability of rape or incest. notwithstanding, Christians or Muslims would disagree with me because of concept that each physique existence is sacred and each foetus could acquire a large gamble to stay no count what the expenses are for the mother or infant. I, in my opinion, am Pagan. I do have confidence that abortion could in specific circumstances be allowed, yet only under severe circumstances.

Answer 10

I think the whole sad system is screwed up, my 12 year old came home one day with a permission slip to watch a movie in class for pre-teen girls. I thought it was the same one I watched in school about having your period. Well that day I asked her about the movie to see if she had any questions, she said she didn't see a movie about periods it was about Birth Control. So the bottom line is I understand how you feel, and yes it scares me to death. Parents are losing more and more control of their children because of society. And schools are feeding kids the information to kids that parents cannot tell them what to do anymore. Schools will even help kids imancipate.Something seriously needs to be done.Schools and Planned Parenthood push the abortion thing on young girls now taking that right from a parent.