{"id":482496,"date":"2010-03-26T18:31:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011453383_teenageabortionandthepublicschools.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-03-26T18:31:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:31:32","slug":"teenage-abortion-and-the-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/482496","title":{"rendered":"Teenage abortion and the public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is this really news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teenagers are prone to having premarital sex without parental consent \u2014 is that really news? [\u201cAbortion referral puts spotlight on school-based health centers, page one, March 26.]<\/p>\n<p>Millions of teenagers get pregnant in the U.S. every year and abortion is legal in every state \u2014 is that really news?<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the local high-school teenager who responsibly sought reproductive health care in a clinic setting and consequently made a decision that was hers alone to make under Washington state law.<\/p>\n<p>By discussing her protected health-care information on the front page of the newspaper, editors have decided to side with an irate parent who is unable to manage her family\u2019s affairs privately.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on The Seattle Times for publicly \u201couting\u201d this female teenager by promoting a provocative public discussion of a controversial medical practice documented in her confidential medical record.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Michelle Terry, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this really news? Teenagers are prone to having premarital sex without parental consent \u2014 is that really news? [\u201cAbortion referral puts spotlight on school-based health centers, page one, March 26.] Millions of teenagers get pregnant in the U.S. every year and abortion is legal in every state \u2014 is that really news? Kudos to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}