Think the American family isn’t being dissolved slowly? The latest ruling from the Florida Supreme Court is simply one more nail in the coffin of a nation.
The Court struck down a law that required physicians to notify parents or legal guardians before performing abortions. What may seem like just another liberating ruling is really the continuation of the policy of eradication of the family. The state is taking power and responsibility away from the parents and family and putting it into its own hands. Now 12 year old girls will be able to get abortions without her parents even knowing. Or 10, or 9 year old girls.
This is a travesty.
Once again, the state has shown its contempt for the family and demonstrated its flaming violation and destruction of an entire history of tradition and natural law. In an age where traditional values are eroded blindly in the face of new moral and legal relativism, this ruling is not landmark (though no less disheartening and wrong). However, it does trump previous decisions in terms of its maddening hypocrisy. For instance

The ACLU seems to think that the old parental consent law is the reason for the breakdown in family:

Parental Involvement Laws Do Not Strengthen Family Relationships
Parental involvement laws do not encourage young women to tell their parents about a pregnancy. In the minority of cases in which minors do not voluntarily consult a parent, many come from family where such an announcement would only exacerbate an already volatile of dysfunctional family situation. One study showed that 14% of minors having abortions believed that, if forced to tell their parents about their pregnancies, they would face physical abuse, and 11% feared violence between their parents. Others feared exacerbating a parent’s drug or alcohol problem.

That’s all well and good, except that three paragraphs up, the ACLU asserts:

Most Minors Involve Parents in the Decision Whether to Have an Abortion
A majority of minors who have abortions do so with at least one of their parent’s knowledge. Based on a national survey of more than 1,500 unmarried minors having abortions in states without parental involvement laws, 61% of women discussed the decision to have an abortion with at least one of their parents. The younger the minor, the more likely she was to have voluntarily discussed the abortion with her parent. Such communication was not mandated by law.

My question is, if most minors involve their parents or legal guardians anyway, why make a fuss? And if telling parents is bad for the family, why do the majority of minors do it?
John Locke on inherent parental authority:

“Though I have said . . . ‘That all men by nature are equal,’ I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of equality. Age . . . may give men a just precedency…[for] natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man.”
“Children, I confess, are not born in this full state of equality, though they are born to it. Their parents have a sort of rule and jurisdiction over them when they come into the world, and for some time after, but it is a temporary one. The bonds of this subjection are like the swaddling clothes they are wrapped in and supported by in the weakness of their infancy. Age and reason as they grow up loosen them, till at length they quite drop off, and leave a man at his own disposal…”

Age and reason. One is not precluded by the other, nor are they independent of each other. By the state’s own definition, minors are subject to their parents’ control and voice. Natural law affords parents charge over their children. When the state intervenes or diminishes natural law, the state violates the very measures and principles upon which people exist, and secondarily upon which this nation was founded.
There was a time when the words of men like Locke meant something to America. Read the Second Treatise and discover the breakdown in our nation’s laws versus the laws of nature. The end of the family is in sight. With the family gone, the nation cannot long stand.