"The bottom line is the parents should be involved."

I'd say this is your most important idea with regards to this issue. This is also what I expressed in my post.

" I find it hard to believe any of you who agree with this ruling would have no problem with this decision if it were your daughter."

The ruling is not about anyone's individual child. A parent should not be looking to the court system or government to assist in their parenting.

 "I'm sure you're all good parents (or will be someday), but put yourselves in this position. You've done everything you can to raise your daughter right. Then one day.....ooops. Now what? Would you want her to come to you for help? Or would you want her to go to the clinic and deal with this alone?"

I'll say this, I'd feel like a failure as a parent if my little girl got pregnant and went off and got an abortion on her own. If I was clueless to all this taking place and had to feel the hearbreak after the fact that she felt she had to go it all alone. Yeah, that would sting something fierce. I would not though be angry at the government, or court system, or medical establishment for what had taken place. I would be rather in hate with myself for being that separated from my child, from failing so immensly, that she never even came to me and I was not involved enough to have caught on. No, I wouldn't be blaming anything or anyone else. I'd probably just be thanking God she was alright and searching hard for a way into her life so she'd never have to feel the loneliness of something like that again. Yeah, I'd feel like a failure but I wouldn't be throwing around the blame, that would be square on my shoulders and I would hurt bad for it.

                                                  Reg