What's not to understand?
Think about this: Someone you have never met, someone you detest, or someone untrustworthy takes your minor-age daughter on a trip out of your home state. This is done without your knowledge and for the purpose of having surgery or major dental work performed on her. Think you would be angry? I would be loading my weapons.
Surgery on minors
Well, in some states this is exactly what happens. Minors are taken across state lines without parental counsel, permission, or knowledge, and not for surgery or dental work. Oh no, this is done for abortions. Regardless of your stance on abortion, this should be outrageous to every responsible person reading these words, parent or not.
Abortion is surgery, and according to every activist and special-interest group that argued to make abortions legal, apparently it is very serious. In fact, right-to-abortion proponents listed death from "back-alley" abortions as one of the prime reasons to legalize surgically removing a fetus.
Currently, only 23 states require parental notification. The others, including two of the top four states in population, allow minors unrestricted access to abortion. Unbelievable as this sounds, it is true. However, it looks as though this is about to change.
Finally, a glimmer of common sense
Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that makes it a federal felony for any person to transport someone younger than 18 across state lines for an abortion without parental consent. It also requires abortion doctors to contact parents, and violations are set at fines of up to $100,000 and a year in jail. The proposed law is now before the Senate. This is common sense, right? And yet abortion advocates are already howling that this is yet another attempt to erode "reproductive rights."
In my opinion, no child should be operated on without parental consent unless there is an absolute certainty that emergency surgery is necessary to save a child's life. Even if you approve of abortion and believe it to be nothing more than an issue of choice, and even if you believe that a fetus is nothing more than a lump of flesh, it is still surgery on a minor without parental knowledge or consent.
So let me ask you, why the argument and what don't you understand?