Poll: Abortion for minors.

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Your first argument is a typical slippery slope, if we allow a what is to stop b or c or d from happening. All those other examples are not specifically related, they should be evaluated on their own.

That's not what I was going for, but I see how you could interpret my post that way.

What I mean to clarify is whether or not a minor should be able to make other medical decisions without permission from a parent. I just used extreme examples. I mean to point out that it's curious that one should take a position that a minor should make a medical decision for him/herself, but only this one.

I understand that abortion is a special case, but it's also a rather extreme case. Thus, one might conclude that if a minor can be trusted to make a choice on abortion, they should just as easily be trusted with lesser medical decisions.

I think peoples' rights should not be based on a magical number (One-size-fits-all-18), but on the maturity, mental stability, and self-sufficiency, of a person.

You would agree that a mentally insane person is not usually self-sufficient, and often immature? Does that person have the capacity to live alone, and make their own decisions? They do not. Neither do many children, and even a few normal adults (More than i would like to believe). These people should not be allowed to have the authority to buy a weapon, and neither should they have the authority to make a choice that will affect their entire life. That is where the crux of this argument is, is it not? That many people are not mature enough to make the choice by themself?

A person who cannot make wise decisions... does not have the maturity to care for a child. Therefore abortion should really be mandatory for people so immature. Those people will not make good parents. By halting the generation of bad parents (of any age), you destroy a primary root of this problem, and our world is only populated by children with reasonable parents. My stance is that maturity, mental stability, and self-sufficicy, should be what we guide our laws under.