In the paper today there is an article Schools arrange secret abortions the feed back was requested I wonder if they will include my response or will we allow schools and Councillors to make up their own law. my response is as follows
Under 16 year olds are not old enough to make decisions on their own and having to keep the secret of an abortion from their mother is massive.
In no other aspect does a person under 16 have the right to sign a contract ,they can’t get married get a loan drink without parents’ consent. Where is the exemption that says that they can when it comes to abortions?
If they had to have their appendix out they would have to have parental consent so why should the decision to terminate be any different, it is after all a surgical procedure one which carried its own risks.
Then when we get to the person who had sex with the girl .. and yes it still is an offence under the age of 16 we encourage silence there by making the councillor a party to the offence by covering up and enabling the offender to go out and destroy some more lives.
Consider the crimes act Section 134 Sexual conduct with young person under 16 carries a penalty of 10 years for this offence
Section 71 Accessory after the fact- (1) An accessory after the fact to an offence is one who, knowing any person to have been a party to the offence, receives, comforts, or assists that person or tampers with or actively suppresses any evidence against him, in order to enable him to escape after arrest or to avoid arrest or conviction.
It is for this very reason that we have legislation why can these councillors make up their own rules? It is not up to the parents to demand a prosecution it is mandatory .
Does this mean that the privacy act over rides the crimes act ? I think not
No one ever considered the long term effects on the girl and the family by keeping it quite.
And no one considers that what they are doing is re writing the law.
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Comment by Helen Wenley — 18/05/2011 @ 11:04 am