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Originally posted by XOMichelle
he he he. Funny, but I have to diagree with this one
"It declined even further when schools had to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student but could not inform the parent when a female student was pregnant or wanted an abortion."
People can have bad reactions to Asprin, since it blocks two classes of COX enzymes: those that synthesize protective prostiglandins in your stomach and kidneys and those that synthesize protiglandins invloved in pain and inflammation. We are all familiar with peole developing stomach pain when taking asprin for a long time. Some people have a higher tolerance to asprin than others. If you gave asprin to a kid that had a low tolerance, you could have some very angry parents when the child has stomach bleeding. Bettter to document medical history and get permission before you hurt someone out of ignorance.
Second, is that parents ofen do not react in a supportive manner when a teenage girl is pregnant or wants an abortion. Sometimes parents won't let a girl make a decision she wants to make, or thinks is the best for her life. I know that sometimes girls are very young, but parents don't always do the right thing under such circumstances, and they don't always support her trhough what is obviously a tough time. It is not up to society to "tattle" on a teenage girl who is pregnant. If she wants to tell her parents, that is her decision.
My big thing is that parents do not own their children. They have a duty to make decisions in their best interest when they are young, but when they are older, parents can't make decisions for them.
-M
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I understand what you're saying, and I agree, but I think you missed the point there. I think what the author was trying to say was that a young girl can make the decision to have unprotected sex and run the risk or pregnancy, and the same girl can also make her own decision whether she can have an abortion or not, but she can make the decision on her own to take an asprin without parental consent. The point is that this person is either capable of making their own decision or she's not.