This is a sticky situation, and you can bet the left will use this to circumvent parental decisions in other matters.
I can't believe I missed this earlier.
McWay, Seriously! You need to get out of this ridiculously dead end LEFT / RIGHT paradigmn you're stuck in.
You wanna know what is far more dangerous, ..a 16 year old who comes up pregnant via RAPE, and BOTH the victim, along with her parents want to terminate the pregnancy and are told no.
There are lawmakers working feverishly to overthrow Roe vs. Wade, and they are allowed to do that, they circumvent not only parental rights, but constitutional rights as well.
This is not about LEFT or RIGHT. And as long as you keep thinking in those terms and being a "good little cheerleader for the team" you'll be round & round spinning your wheels seeing no progress at all. That is what "they" want. "They" being the people who run things, ...and it's NOT the government. Governments simply enforce the orders given to them and lay the ground work for the agenda's their masters intend to carry out.
When GWB was dismantling the Constitution, bringing in archaic laws some people cheered thinking there was nothing wrong with that. Now that "their guy" is out of power, they suddenly realize the scary potential for self-destruction? WTF!
Bad laws and bad decisions are bad regardless of which side initiates them, or signs them into law.