I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]
In-School Clinic Sets Up Abortions Without Notifying Parents
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In what has to be one of the more shocking and disturbing stories I’ve read in a while, KOMO News is reporting that a Seattle school, Ballard High School, set up a 15-year-old student’s abortion during school hours without notifying the parent. The mother, who found out after the fact, was quite understandably furious.
Apparently, in Washington State, there is no minimum age of consent for an abortion and any child at any age can consent to an abortion without any parental notification.
Yes, this is disturbing in its own right (and hopefully Washington legislators—and those of any other state without such laws—will quickly enact such laws). What makes this all the more disturbing, though, is that a school—an institution charged with the care of a child and entrusted by the parents to help educate their children—would breach the trust of that parent in favor of an outrageous loyalty to the child’s “privacy”.
Schools like this and the administrators who run them have lost all sense of what their purpose should be in a child’s education and have grievously violated one of the most precious areas of trust one could give an to another.
I truly hope that there is enough of an outrage to make this the last such case to ever happen in this country.