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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let parents do the parenting. Why is that so hard for fcps? Do they think we all abuse our children or something? If you suspect abuse, report to social services. Otherwise, do your job and stick the classroom.

I love my daughters. Yes I would be upset if one of them came home pregnant but we would work through it as a family and would ensure she has the support she needs for whatever decision she makes. Of course any 17 year old is scared to tell her parents something she knows will disappoint them. However, a 17 year old is a CHILD. And she needs her parents in this situation whether she realizes it or not. Was the teacher there to check on this girl at 2am the night after the abortion to make sure she was still ok? I bet her mom would have been.

Fcps is all about tearing the family apart and keeping secrets. It’s disgusting.
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If your 17 year old gets pregnant and you do not get her an abortion, you are a horribly immoral person.[/quote]

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?[/quote]

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.[/quote]
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. [/quote]

I have a child of my own. I love her like you're describing. I also live in the real world, where I've met lots of parents who hate their kids, or love them and hurt them anyway. Life isn't a Hallmark card. [/quote]

So, you’d be good with me taking your daughter for an abortion and not telling you about it then? Telling her that it has to be “our little secret”?[/quote]

If my essentially adult child decided that's what she wanted, then yes. It's her life, to live by her lights, not mine.[/quote]

You don’t think you’d want to know so you could check on her afterwards and make sure she is ok physically and emotionally?

These things take years to heal from. Ask me how I know.[/quote]

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