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Abortion: Decisions
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A second leading Catholic official has resigned his membership with Amnesty International over the human rights group's decision to support abortion. Cardinal Keith O'Brien of Scotland said he could no longer be affiliated with the organization after joining as a student more than 40 years ago.
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Whether to have an abortion may be a difficult decision, and the conditions that led up to the pregnancy may be upsetting. A woman may want to consult with a parent, counselor, teacher, clergyperson, partner, or friend about her decision or just to be there to talk with.
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Counselling can be very useful for obtaining information, assisting to clarify issues in relation to abortion in general, and individual decisions in particular. It can ... be useful for partners and/or families of the patient.
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This may provide a means for judging parental consent laws for minors seeking abortion. Since minors are not in traditional terms legally reckoned to be competent to engage in sex, to enter into contracts, or to form sufficient "informed consent" to agree to their own medical treatment ("on account of the imbecillity of judgment," is how Blackstone put it in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 1, p.424), it is incredible that they would be regarded as competent to make a life and death decision about something that, later in life with a more mature reckoning of conscience, they might themselves regard as a real person -- considering themselves to have committed a murder.
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