I find it odd that school staff are not permitted to remove a splinter or administer paracetamol without a parent's prior consent but they can arrange abortions for their young charges behind their parent's backs.
Something is very wrong.
We should be doing all we can to discourage under 16s from becoming pregnant in the first place.
It's never them that has to stump up the cost, is it?
It's always their parents or the state.
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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs, cackling and telling me
'You'll be next.' They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals.
