STOP THE ACLU The following discussion is a bit of a moot point, as S.403 passed, and is now waiting the President to sign it into law. However, it is an important point to note the stance that the ACLU has taken so strongly against our families.
From the ACLU Press Release:
The American Civil Liberties Union today called upon the House of Representatives to reject S. 403, the “Teen Endangerment Act,” dubbed the “Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act” by its supporters. The bill would put the most vulnerable teens at risk and delay teens from getting the care and counseling they need, the ACLU warned.
“More than anything, we want our teens to be safe. By passing this legislation, Congress would succeed only in further endangering already at-risk teenagers,” said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “The reality is that the parents of most teens seeking abortions are aware of their daughter’s decision. But no legislation in the world can create good family communication. Rather than helping already frightened teens, this legislation may delay their getting the prompt medical care and counseling they need.”
“The Teen Endangerment Act will harm teenagers and do nothing to reduce unintended pregnancies,” said Louise Melling, Director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. “The best way to protect our teenagers is to encourage families to communicate and to provide teenagers with the information they need to lead healthy and safe lives.”
Perhaps the ACLU is not looking at the same legislation I am. Just to make sure, here is some pertinent text from the bill. You can find the entire bill here.
Summary of the Bill from The Library of Congress:
The fact of the matter is this law upholds the parental consent laws already on the books in many states. Furthermore it stops teens from crossing state lines to bypass parental consent. Do parents not have a right to raise their children?
The ACLU is right on one point – this law will do little to stop unintended pregnancies. Call me a cynic, but the process of getting pregnant is not one shrouded in mystery – we know how babies are made. The decision to have or not have a baby should be made before pregnancy, not after.
I am glad this has passed, and I am certain the president will sign it into law. But I am infinitely concerned about the ACLUs agenda of killing off our next generation. If the ACLU had there way our children, those lucky enough to be born, would be subject to the most vile forms of pornography, indoctrinated by homosexual lifestyles in school, pursued by freeks like NAMBLA, stalked in our parks by known child molesters, and supported in a fictitious “right” to engage in any deviant behavior they come across.
Its there, right before your eyes. The ACLU’s agenda to destroy our society, and they are doing it one child at a time.
Once again, Stop The ACLU nails the issue! Well said!
Leave it to the Atheists Communist and Lawyers Underground can you think of any group that should lose its tax exempt status?:mad:
There was a time when the ACLU really stood for our rights. Now, they are responsible for taking many of those rights away. Just one is one too many.
While the ACLU opposes exicuting convicted murderers they support abortion and euthiansia:roll:
I think that perhaps the ACLU should win this one and then whenever a teen dies or is injured (as in made sterile as happens) from an abortion her parents weren’t privy to should be sued. That could hit class action status in VERY short order. Imagine the settlements. They could render the ACLU penniless. What a grand plan. The thought of the trial attornies and the ACLU duking it out in court almost brings tears to my eyes.
BTW isn’t the ACLU and the Trial attornies the idiots responsible for kids not being allowed to take aspirin to school without risking being expelled because of the lawsuits over a few druggies taking illicit drugs to school? Aren’t the trial attornies the same ones responsible for all of the waivers, and other paperwork you have to fill out to get a simple dental exam?
FAO there is some logic to that idea. It’s what the Left has been doing for years; using the courts and lawyers to just wear down their opponents.
If I was a billionaire I would endow some legal foundation to nothing but just target organizations like the ACLU and use every trick, every tactic, every nuance of the legal system to bleed them out of existence.
What we can do as taxpayers, is to get Congress to change the US Code section that allows groups like the ACLU to collect attornies fees in “Civil rights” cases from the defendent whether they win or lose. As long as the cities and states can be forced to cough up millions in legal fees to the very attornies that are suing them even if the win the suit, the ACLU will be able to continue filing specious lawsuits. Let’s cut their taxpayer funded umbilical cords and watch them have to survive on their endowments. They’ll be MUCH less willing to take on stupid cases once they realize that they aren’t getting paid unless they win. The cities will also be much more willing to stand up and fight when they won’t have to pay for both sides’ legal bills.