Published: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Herald should fight infringement
Beware something wicked this way comes!
Your 13-year-old child might be transported, without parental knowledge or consent, from school to off-site counseling and even such places as Planned Parenthood. Then, once in the confidence of a "counselor," who may not share the moral values the parents have struggled to instill in their child, a teenage girl can be talked into, and walked into, an abortion before the parents even know she is pregnant. I don't think even most school boards are aware of this.
This has been possible in Snohomish County for some time, thanks to state politicians. Look at the Web site for Cocoon House (www.cocoonhouse.org), under "Outreach, who we help." Big money is going to private mental health practitioners such as Compass Health.
The Herald brags that it sponsors Cocoon House. The owners of The Herald should instead hang their heads in shame, unless they are willing to stand up to this despicable infringement of parental rights.
To take a leaf from Senator Daniel Webster's book: "Good intentions are always pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard us against our elected officials' good intentions. There are men and women of all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
Elected officials take an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is time they did so, and it is time The Herald did its part in stopping this horrendous infringement of parental rights.
Hugh Fleet
Seattle
Your 13-year-old child might be transported, without parental knowledge or consent, from school to off-site counseling and even such places as Planned Parenthood. Then, once in the confidence of a "counselor," who may not share the moral values the parents have struggled to instill in their child, a teenage girl can be talked into, and walked into, an abortion before the parents even know she is pregnant. I don't think even most school boards are aware of this.
This has been possible in Snohomish County for some time, thanks to state politicians. Look at the Web site for Cocoon House (www.cocoonhouse.org), under "Outreach, who we help." Big money is going to private mental health practitioners such as Compass Health.
The Herald brags that it sponsors Cocoon House. The owners of The Herald should instead hang their heads in shame, unless they are willing to stand up to this despicable infringement of parental rights.
To take a leaf from Senator Daniel Webster's book: "Good intentions are always pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard us against our elected officials' good intentions. There are men and women of all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
Elected officials take an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is time they did so, and it is time The Herald did its part in stopping this horrendous infringement of parental rights.
Hugh Fleet
Seattle
Comments
(