New Jersey: A study in duality

On Monday to great fanfare New Jersey's Governor Corzine signed a bill that passed both houses with overwhelming bi-partisan support. The bill, A3580, allows 17 year olds to donate blood and grants permission for minors 16 years old to donate blood with parental supervision.
Where the illogical part comes in is that in New Jersey a person still needs a parent's or guardian's authorization to donate blood, but the state allows girls as young as 13 to have abortions without any parental consent whatsoever. (Technically there is no legal lower limit but the AMA has recommended it's members not perform elective procedures on minors younger than 13 without parental consent.)

One of the greatest lies we are told is that abortion is a safe procedure. While it is not up there with organ transplants and heart surgery for mortality, there are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of deaths every year from abortions. Ironically only a fraction of the abortion related deaths are reported as such, most are reported as deaths from complications of pregnancy and contribute to the hyper-inflated maternal mortality rate.

Somehow the morons in New Jersey's legislature and our Governor decided to ignore reality, accept the "official" report of .6 deaths per 100,000 abortions and deemed it safe enough for a 13 year old to have without parental consent.

And just as deaths following the use of Mifepristone is reported as suspect to the drug by manufacturer (to keep the numbers artificially low) any child who dies from this procedure is not likely to be recorded as an abortion death but rather categorized as some other statistic.
Some day the truth will be allowed to be told. In the meantime we have to live with the fear that in New Jersey your child can die from an abortion you never knew she had. Except the chances are you'll never know about the abortion either, it will likely be listed as a pregnancy related complication.