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Vote Clears Way for Illinois Abortion Notification Law

The AP released a news article stating that the State of Illinois Medical Disciplinary Board has decided not to extend a 90-day grace period put into place in August.

Illinois' law had been passed in 1995 that forced abortionist doctors to provide parents with a 48 hour notice of girls 17 and younger who intended to get abortions.  That law, however, was never enforced because of constant court actions to prevent it.  Organizations such as The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois intends to ask for a new temporary restraining order to keep the state from enforcing the law.

This is where things start to get a little interesting.  You see, as a Libertarian I believe that individual right to privacy is an important natural right and should be observed at all times.  However, we are dealing with the murder of an innocent baby for no other reason than the immature and irresponsible nature of a teenager who made a foolish choice.

I think that is why I call myself a Conservative Libertarian because Morals must come into play at some point and we aren't the Wild Wild West and so no baby should suffer such a fate.  How about this, lets encourage these teenagers to have the children and put them up for adoption and possible force child support on them to help pay for the baby until it has been adopted by another family.  That way our taxes are mitigated and the teenager(s) learn a continious lesson on what they have done.

Now, some of you out there might say something along the lines of, "...if we start charging teenagers money for babies they won't want they will force the abortion upon themselves without the aid of medical professionals, wont they?".  I can see that as a legitimate concern for some of you out there but you are forgetting that I'm treating the forced and intentional abortion of a child as MURDER.  The punishment for finding out that a teenager forced the abortion would be tried as such in a court of law and so it would highly encourage teens not to perform such an act.

I'd love to hear what all of you have to say about this.  Don't be shy, no matter what side of the fence you are on let your comments rip.  But I remind you, please use fact-based evidence to backup any statement you might make.

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