{"id":495070,"date":"2010-03-31T18:54:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T22:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011493349_healthclinichelped15yearoldgirlgetabortion.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-03-31T18:54:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T22:54:25","slug":"health-clinic-helped-15-year-old-girl-get-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/495070","title":{"rendered":"Health clinic helped 15-year-old girl get abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother to blame for damages<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you for printing the editorial that supported the Ballard Teen Health Center\u2019s aiding of a 15-year-old girl to get an abortion. [\u201cHigh-school clinic workers acted properly,\u201d Opinion, March 28.]<\/p>\n

This issue\u2019s legal aspects were presented appropriately and brought out the key fact in this controversy \u2014the Teen Health Center\u2019s actions were completely legal. It is appalling that people would blame the Health Center for helping a young girl get reproductive services it provides. What they did was completely within the law.<\/p>\n

The mother is to blame because she clearly did not read or fully understand the implications of the contract she signed.<\/p>\n

Her case is unfair because the Health Center could not tell its side of the story without breaking the confidentiality agreement key to keeping the good reputation it deserves.<\/p>\n

Besides that, this girl should not have to be judged for making a decision that was necessary and completely within the her rights. News stations should leave her alone, as well as the school. Let\u2019s stop talking about this girl and her confidential decision \u2014it is the business of herself and nobody else.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Deanna Myers, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n

When it comes to sex, it takes two (if not more)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I appreciate The Time\u2019s effort to spell out the issues surrounding the Ballard High School student\u2019s actions and how parties involved addressed them. However, The Times made an egregious error in the last sentence of this otherwise fair piece of opinion.<\/p>\n

The sentence begins, \u201cToo bad a young girl\u2019s mistake \u2026\u201d Really?<\/p>\n

I was under the impression that sex generally requires at least two parties, especially for any female involved to become pregnant. What about the young man\u2019s responsibility? What, exactly, was the young woman\u2019s \u201cmistake\u201d?<\/p>\n

Given her age, it is more likely human error, but that does not absolve The Times. \u201cA young girl\u2019s mistake\u201d translates to \u201cshe had sex.\u201d We must not condone or recognize that adolescents are sexual being \u2014 at least not young women.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Michael Shook, Vashon<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mother to blame for damages Thank you for printing the editorial that supported the Ballard Teen Health Center\u2019s aiding of a 15-year-old girl to get an abortion. [\u201cHigh-school clinic workers acted properly,\u201d Opinion, March 28.] This issue\u2019s legal aspects were presented appropriately and brought out the key fact in this controversy \u2014the Teen Health Center\u2019s […]<\/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-495070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495070","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=495070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}