Minor Child Adoption

Sarah’s law regarding abortions in California prohibits abortions for unemancipated minor until forty eight hours after the physician notifies minor's parent or legal guardian. There were much resistance against this law and some of the arguments provided were some teenagers are not willing to go to their parents since they’re afraid of being kicked out, beaten, or worse and that this law forces teens to delay medical care, turn to self- induced abortions, suicide or worse. In my opinion, there are many pros and cons concerning with Sarah’s law, but ultimately, I would have to disagree with it. Although it is important to turn to a trusted adult during this time, there are many teens who does not have anyone to depend on because of their situations.

7 of these states have laws that effectively require the woman make two separate trips to the clinic to obtain the procedure. Parents should be involved in such a decision like this so 36 states require some type of parental involvement in a minor’s decision to have an abortion. 22 states require one or both parents to consent to the procedure, while 12 require that one or both parents be notified and 4 states require both parental consent and notification. Many people believe that restrictive abortion laws may worsen family communication rather than promote it. Abortion providers encourage teenagers to tell a parent or another important family member about their plans, and most teens do. Even without state laws, one or both parents of 61% of minors know about their daughters' abortions. The younger the teen, the higher the likelihood that she has told her mother about the situation. Those young women who do not or cannot tell their parents, however, often have important reasons such as a family history of alcoholism, emotional or physical abuse, or incest. To involve such parents could invite further abuse of the teenager and other family members. Rather than tell their parents - for whatever reason - some teenagers resort to unsafe, illegal abortions or try to perform the abortion themselves. In doing so, they risk serious injury and death or, in some cases, criminal charges. Another concern is that restrictive laws endanger teens' health by

Adoption is the process in which a person takes over the parenting of someone else’s child and permanently transfers all the responsibilities and rights from the biological parent or parents. Giving up a child for adoption is a very difficult decision for a mother to make. Today, many children are being parented by a single parent, a grandparent, a stepparent, foster parent or other parent figure. Making adoption an option is done by providing loving, responsible, and legally permanent parents to a child when their biological parents are not able or will not take care of them.(Carter)

In Texas the social workers would have to allow the parent of the minor to know that the child wants t get an abortion. In fact the child could not get an abortion without the signature of at least one of her parents. Title two subtitle 33 states that A pregnant minor who wishes to have an abortion without notification to one of her parents, her managing conservator, or her guardian may file an application for a court order authorizing the minor to consent to the performance of an abotion without notification to either of her parents or a managing conservator

Jaden is a fifteen year old girl in high school, one night she went to a party with her boyfriend with no parent supervision so there was a lot of underage drinking, she doesn’t remember a lot from the party that night because she was under the influence, but she does remember being upstairs with her boyfriend. A few days later her boyfriend had told her that she needed to take a pregnancy test because he didn’t use protection, later that day she found out that she was pregnant. Jaden is scared to tell her parents that she is pregnant but she knows she has to tell them so they can help her get an abortion. Teens should be able to get an abortion without parental consent because taking care of a child while in high school can be challenging, it can be hard to provide for a child as a teen, and although it means you have to kill your own child, having an abortion is cheaper than taking care of a baby.

Previously in Texas Family Code Ch. 33, combined with Occupation Code § 164.052(a) (19) the law required that a minor obtain the consent of her parent, managing conservator or legal guardian if she wished to have an abortion. She could obtain a bypass to consent if she demonstrated that she: (1) she was sufficiently mature and well informed to consent to the abortion, (2) that the notification of her parents would not be in her best interests, or (3) the notification may lead to physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. Many of those under 18 may have been raped or sexually assaulted by a relative and will not discuss their mistreatment if they fear legal action against their parent(s) or that CPS will become involved. Minors could seek a confidential judicial bypass if they were in fear of being abused at home because of their pregnancy or abortion and/or if they don’t have parental approval. Also, if a judge did not rule on a minor’s application, her request for a bypass was considered granted. This judicial bypass was created to protect abused or neglected pregnant teens who cannot safely turn to a parent or cannot find a parent. Some argue that the bill may violate a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the bypass process must be confidential and

A 16-year-old girl visits a birth control clinic and asks to be put on the pill. Since she is a minor, the clinic doctor who writes the prescription for her notifies her parents of the action. As of the year 2016, there are only 26 states that allow minors to obtain contraceptives without parental consent. There are 20 states that allow certain minors to obtain contraceptives without parental consent and those include minors that are married or who have already been pregnant. Four states have no laws on parental consent (Gutimacher Institute, 2016). This ethical controversy leaves room for an open interruption of whether or not minors should need parental consent to gain access to birth control, to apply ethical reasoning to this controversy one must examine the ethical principles of utilitarianism, rights-based, duty-based, justice based, and virtue-based ethics.

obtaining judicial consent for abortion, when they were not able to obtain it from parents

Care and Protection of Isaac, 419 Mass. 602. This is not the situation in the present case. There is no evidence that Stephanie has been diagnosed with any emotional or behavioral issues, which would warrant DCF’s removal of Stephanie from her mother’s care, and placing her into an alternative placement. Id. It is a well-known presumption that a child’s interests are generally best served if the child is able to remain with his or her natural parents. Petition of the Department of Public Welfare to Dispense with Consent to Adoption, 421 N.E. 2d 28

Finally, the most crucial reason to why parental consent laws for abortion should be legal is the potential medical dangerous that can occur before and after an abortion (Earll). Parents that are aware of their children desire to have an abortion and support their children’s decisions can provide “important medical history to a physician” (Christian Med.). “A minor may not be fully conscious of a family history that makes surgical or medical abortion

In the United States women have the option to put their baby up for adoption or get an abortion While adoption has some financial benefits, (statistic) because they fear the social ramifications of carrying a pregnancy to term. In South Carolina women seeking abortion often face counseling to discourage the woman from getting an abortion. However women in North Carolina are given easier accessibility to abortion services. To improve life for women in South Carolina, abortion laws should be molded to be similar to North Carolina’s because they will give women a chance to rethink their decision, they’re cheaper, and because they will allow all women to have a choice whether or not to abort-- women will no longer need to fit certain specifications in order to go through with their decision.

An 18 year old girl gets pregnant and can’t decide whether to keep the baby or have an abortion. Her parents are very religious and do not believe in sex before marriage therefore would not take to kindly to their daughter being pregnant.

Minnesota has laws on abortion. Minnesota believes that woman should make a well informed decision on whether or not to have an abortion performed. Minnesota law statute states “It is the woman’s right to know”. These statutes also go on to explain that the woman if she is having an abortion that a doctor should be on call and on site of an abortion in case the abortion is a live birth. These statutes also say that if it is after twelve weeks an abortion has to be performed in clinic or a hospital. There is also a statute that a parent must be informed and give consent for a minor to have an abortion. A minor can circumvent that clause by going to a judge and having him order the doctor to perform an abortion without parent consent the other loop hole is if the minor wanting an abortion is emancipated. After an abortion is performed the fetus should be cremated, interred, or by whichever the health commissioner decides.

My sister Katie feels like she “doesn’t belong” with my family. As kids, we used to play dress up with one another and Katie would always ask my mom to make her have blonde hair just as I did. My mom would then put a yellow towel on her head so that she could pretend she did. As a child I could not understand why Katie would want to do such a silly thing to try and look as I did. In my eyes we were both the same and nothing else mattered. As we got older, it became more apparent to me how different we really were. I am Caucasian and she is Native American. I have blonde hair and blue eyes while she has black hair and brown eyes. Not only did we look very different but our personalities differed as well. Katie was always much more fussy

The choice between adoption and abortion changes millions of lives every day. Some advocates of abortion feel if the mother of the child thinks that she will not be a good parent or thinks she will harm the child, that she has the right to abort the child. Abortion is a life changing decision and has the reputation of being an easy way out of an unwanted pregnancy. Adoption, on the other hand, is one way for a woman who is not prepared to be a parent to provide her child the best life possible without being involved in the child’s life. According to national estimates, one million children in the United States live with adoptive parents and from 2% to 4% of American families include an adopted