To me this is not a pro life/pro choice debate. The problem here is the school overstepping and leaving parents out of the equation. No one loves a child like her own parents and family do. Why do you assume a teacher could provide better support than her own family? |
You sound incredibly naive that you can't fathom the home life a lot of kids deal with. |
+1 As someone who has also been there, I needed more emotional support after the D&C than the day of. Thank god I had my family to get me through it. |
But why automatically assume they have an abusive honestly life? And if abuse was suspected, why wasn’t it reported? |
Who gets to decide if the home life is adequate? When the school decides they know best about your child, I’m sure youlll change your tune. |
Maybe that's why they're running an investigation and instead of grabbing pitchforks you should be patient? In situations like this schools and teachers cannot easily make public responses due to privacy laws and concerns. |
Sadly, since the uncle was the guardian, this may be even more troubling than we know. An unaccompanied minor? |
If abuse was suspected, it should have been reported by the teacher. I hope the investigation is thorough and unbiased. |
NP. I'm actually sort of pro-life, in that I think abortion is immoral, but I'm not sure how you regulate it in a society where most people disagree with me. That said, I don't know how you get to be an adult with realizing that a lot of parents provide terrible support. My best friend in high school was a girl who had an abortion around that age (technically 18, but not by much), and her mom would have been totally unable to provide support in that instant. I did a better job providing support, and I was an 18 year old friend and nothing else. I don't know what the circumstances of this girl were (and I understand why the school system would want a blanket policy here), but I know for a fact there are situations where a counselor would be right to look at a student's home life and think "I can support this kid better than her parents." "No one loves a child like her own parents and family do" is just bullshit in the actual world. |
You don't know that it wasn't as that information isn't public. |
It does not sound like a case of abuse to me.
“According to the report, two female students, both minors at the time, allege that school officials, including social worker Carolina Diaz, arranged abortions at Fairfax Healthcare Center without parental consent. One student, a 17-year-old 11th-grade student, claims Diaz scheduled her appointment, paid the clinic's fees, and instructed her to keep the procedure secret. The abortion allegedly took place in November 2021. A second student, five months pregnant, says Diaz told her that she "had no choice" but to proceed with an abortion. That student fled the clinic, unwilling to go through with the procedure, and later confided in her teacher, Zenaida Perz, who provided Curt with an audio recording of the family confirming that the school never informed them of the intent to terminate their daughter's pregnancy. Under Virginia state law, a physician is required to certify in writing that at least one parent has been notified before performing an abortion on a minor, unless a judicial bypass is obtained. “ |
I assume you are joking, but in any case, who cares? |
Everyone can think of a couple exceptions, but 95% of the time it’s true. The parents can provide the best support. In reading the statements of the girls who were taken for the abortion by the Fcps teacher, it sounds like they do have supportive families. |
Once you have a child of your own you’ll be able to understand that such is the love of a mother that she would give her own life for her child, if needed be. I can’t say the same about an outsider, that would include a counselor. |
Once, when I was a kid, I got caught doing something and I claimed that it was the first time I'd ever tried it, what bad luck, to get caught the only time you ever did the bad thing. |