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Parental involvement laws reduce teenage abortions

Idahoans have reason to be grateful for the passage of a parental consent law in 2007. A new study shows that parental involvement laws reduce abortions among minors anywhere from 13-31 percent. This means, of course, that they should receive the support of everyone who claims to want to reduce the number of abortions.

While librarians accuse parents who want to purge offensive books from library shelves of being authoritarians and bullies, in reality it’s just the other way round. Bozell correctly observes that in fact it is the librarians who are imposing their social values on well-meanings parents and are in fact the authoritarians in such situations.

Idaho was one of five states to receive a grant of federal money earlier this year to further develop charter schools.

• Despite the relentless effort of secular fundamentalists, 96 percent of Americans still believe in God, a percentage which has remained steady for 63 years. Russia now claims that 96 percent of its population believes in God, and believers in God even outnumber atheists in Communist China. The Baylor Religion Survey revealed also that megachurches are surprisingly intimate communities because of their emphasis on small groups which meet during the week. Also, the survey revealed that conservative Christians are actually less likely than the public at large to be superstitious about such things as Bigfoot and UFOs, despite the perception among many that Christians are especially gullible and credulous.(Newsmax.com – New Study: Mega-Churches Work)
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• Despite the historical trend that Catholics – more than 40% of whom are unaffiliated with either party - tend to vote Democrat, Sarah Palin’s pro-life convictions are drawing observant Catholics into the GOP fold, a shift which, according to the Christian Science Monitor, “looks to be more enduring than a postconvention bounce.” Sen. McCain has now opened up a 16 percentage point lead over Sen. Obama among Catholics who attend church weekly, who tend to be passionate foes of abortion.(Churchgoing Catholics returning to GOP fold | csmonitor.com)
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• James Taranto exposes the utter hypocrisy of the Old Media on the exposure of Sarah Palin’s private email correspondence. Remember all the bloviating from sources such as the New York Times that the Patriot Act would let Pres. Bush invade our privacy by letting him snoop on our personal phone conversations or emails? Yet the AP gladly invades Palin’s privacy by doing that very thing, breathlessly trumpeting the release of these private emails, and rather than expressing any concern about this gross violation of her privacy, immediately tries to turn the focus to political issues. The Boston Globe even used the word “leaked” to describe the email exposure, but as Taranto points out, “a leaker is someone who is authorized to possess information but not to disclose it.” But as he says, the emails “were not leaked, they were stolen.”(Hackers break into Sarah Palin's e-mail account)
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• Any hope that conservatives will not have to restrain a President McCain on the issue of illegal immigration has been put to bed by a new Spanish-language McCain television commercial accusing Obama of not doing enough to promote amnesty legislation. Following is a translation of the text of the commercial, which you can see by clicking the link below. Announcer: “Obama and his congressional allies say they are on the side of immigrants. But are they? The press reports that their efforts were ‘poison pills’ that made immigration reform fail. The result? No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform. Is that being on our side? Obama and his congressional allies (are) ready to block immigration reform, but not ready to lead.” McCain: “I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”(McCain commercial blames Obama for 'amnesty' failure – in Spanish)
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• For an intriguing look at the electoral map, click this link for Dick Morris’s election map:Newsmax.com - Morris Maps the Election
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• Marriage may be in trouble in California, as the latest Field Poll indicates that the Golden State’s marriage amendment is now trailing by 17 points, with 55% of likely voters against Proposition 8 while just 38% support it. The gap has widened by eight points since July. The state’s attorney general Jerry Brown inserted his own bias into the debate by changing the wording on the heading of voter pamphlets from “Limit on Marriage” to “Eliminates right of same-sex couples to marry,” which affected poll results by three points all by itself. In other details, 66% of Republicans support the marriage amendment while 75% of Democrats oppose it.Florida’s marriage amendment is also in trouble. It needs 60% to pass, and latest polling data shows support in the 50s, a majority but not the required supermajority. (Field Poll finds gay marriage ban trails by 17 points - sacbee.com)
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• The greatest fear among Chicago’s school children in the 5^th to 8^th grades? “Getting shot.” Yep, in the city that has the most stringent gun-control ordinance in the nation. One 13-year-old interviewed by the Sun-Times knows nine friends or relatives who have been shot, three fatally. It’s almost impossible to believe, but 36 Chicago Public School students have been killed since September. Ask yourself this question: when you were 13, how many of your friends or relatives had been shot? Second Amendment anyone? (Students' greatest fear: Getting shot :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES)

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