When you’re 14 years old you can’t:
vote
rent a car
drive
drink.
Get a tattoo without parental consent.
see an R rated movie.
go on a school field trip to the museum without your parents signing a permission slip.
buy cigarettes.
buy a lottery ticket (in some states.)
adopt a pet.
vote on American Idol.
serve jury duty. (Not that you’d want to.)
buy a gun.
But you can procure an abortion without your parents consent. What does that say about this country?
You know what it says? It says that abortionists have lots of money to buy off elected officials including representatives and Senators and Presidents. It says that for a country that talks an awful lot about doing things “for the children” we don’t actually give a damn about the children.
I thought of this because a Texas man was arrested on suspicion that he tattooed a 14-year-old girl, which is against the law, even though the teen’s mother had given permission, according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram. The teen’s mother also was arrested on charges that she allowed it.
I’m not a big fan of tattooing children myself. It seems a little permanent. But by that same token, so is killing your unborn child. It’s kinda’ permanent. No backsies.
But think about that. Arrested for tattoos. Abortion OK. Something’s very wrong. Scary wrong. And I fear the damage is permanent.
September 18, 2012 at 3:29 am
You can't get you ears or anything else pierced without parental consent.
September 18, 2012 at 3:46 am
I am in the medical profession and am appalled that I cannot treat a sore throat without parental consent – yet young girls can get birth control pills, morning after pills, and abortions with NO CONSENT at all!!!! It is a twisted system. No antibiotics – but a surgical abortion that could kill, sterilize, and much more is allowed. All I can do is pray – and try to educate!
September 18, 2012 at 4:05 am
You can't take cough drops or even asprin for a headache without parental consent, but bc is almost force fed to them. At my highschool you needed a note for both AND they had to be kept in the nurses office, and that was 10 years ago.
September 18, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Well and truly said.
September 18, 2012 at 2:37 pm
"Well and truly said." and seconded
September 18, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Another thing you can do as a 14 year old is have yourself sterilized. I have a daughter who was never going to have children until she meet her newborn nephews. Imagine the heartache if she had been able to summit herself to sterilization before she was even finished growing into an adult. Now she has two sons and wants more.