We’re putting a lot of trust in the medical profession. But apparently, we don’t trust the parents.

That’s state Representative Dan Ruby, talking about a law the North Dakota House just passed allowing medical providers to give pre-natal care to pregnant minors without alerting the parents.
The law will now be considered by the state Senate.
Personally, I’ve always found the push by some to take parents out of the equation in instance of teen pregnancy to be more than a little disgusting. Because it’s so transparently about manipulating the pregnant teens for the sake of ideology and (in the case of some organizations) profit.
Many organizations claim that allowing providers to give this care to pregnant teens helps protect said teens from abusive parents. This is a fallacious argument given that there are already protections for the children of abusive parents under current law. When confronted by a pregnant teenager who doesn’t want to tell her parents about her pregnancy because she claims they’re abusive, the proper reaction from the care provider shouldn’t be to provide services in secret. It should be a call to the proper authorities like the police or a social worker. That would be a much better solution then “Oh, you’re parents are abusive, so we’ll just give you an abortion in secret and send you right back to them.” Let’s remember that the people who provide the “pre-natal care” aren’t exactly paragons of virtue either. Planned Parenthood, for instance, has been caught numerous times performing abortions in instances of reported rape, statutory rape and incest without once notifying authorities.
Is that what we want?
Really, this is about taking parents out of the equation when it comes to pregnant teens so that they can better be manipulated by abortion providers who want to maximize the number of abortions they perform in furtherance of their ideology and (in the case of abortion mills like Planned Parenthood) profit.
Put simply, parents are the parents until they’ve actually done something to lose their parental rights. The government has no place excluding them from what is undoubtedly one of the most difficult situations their teenage daughter could ever face. But apparently they’re going to do that.
Because the government knows what’s best for our children better than we do.