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[blondekosmic15]

Wow...I had to give my written permission for my son to take a tylenol when he was in High School~

[peacefulkids]

This is wrong on so many levels.  I will not even say another word on that.  I had to have notes for everything.  What the beans!

[LuciP]

What I understood from the video was that the parents sign a consent in the beginning of the year and the mother did it. I guess that is all that was needed to proceed. As they said no laws were broken.

LuciP

[mamagoose524]

 I hear you...I had to sign a note for my sons to watch a PG-rated movie!  We live in a mad, mad world!

[tericared]

 The Mother signed a consent form, and the laws in that State says the girl can get an abortion.....

[girlsclubmom]

It is nuts that a consent form for an abortion should be coming home in students backpacks. I am going to read those school papers much more carefully now.

[2boys2love79]

The consent form was simply to be able to access the clinic on campus.  The school was not involved at all. Washington State allows minors to have access to all reproductive services, including abortion, without parental consent. 

Quoting girlsclubmom:

It is nuts that a consent form for an abortion should be coming home in students backpacks. I am going to read those school papers much more carefully now.

[MyLittleMan6405]

Quoting 2boys2love79:

The consent form was simply to be able to access the clinic on campus.  The school was not involved at all. Washington State allows minors to have access to all reproductive services, including abortion, without parental consent. 

Quoting girlsclubmom:

It is nuts that a consent form for an abortion should be coming home in students backpacks. I am going to read those school papers much more carefully now.

This is the kind of thing that happens when parents don't talk to their kids frankly about sexuality and its responsibilities! Or they wait until it is too late. Most parents do not talk to their kids about birth control and being responsible. Most kids get the abstinence talk and parents expect that to be enough. It is not enough!! What if your kid decides they don't want to wait or that they don't share your beliefs? Don't you want them to be protected, even if you don't agree with their choice? Abortion wouldn't even be an issue if they never got pregnant in the first place! Some of those laws about kids having access to reproductive services were made because parents weren't doing their part of educating their kids and there were so many teenagers turning up pregnant or with an STD. I'd be pissed at my kid (and probably myself for not educating enough) for not talking to me or coming to me about it - not pissed at the school. JMO

[SEEKEROFSHELLS]

 The parents signed the consent form never dreaming it would be used to get their daughter to an abortion clinic, and I don't sign all those consent forms at the beginning of the school year. Abortion for me would not be a choice I would make. It would be real hard on me to know my daughter didn't come to me, and I lost a grandchild. It is law there, and in 15 other states. Gets one to thinking. It also gets one to thinking when parents don't want their kids at school to attend sex education, or they squawk when school clinics hand out condoms.