{"id":5691,"date":"2013-02-13T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2013-02-13T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:38:00","slug":"children-obey-your-parents-but-what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5691","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Children, Obey Your Parents.&quot; But What If&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that, generally speaking, parents have both the right and responsibility to determine the health care of their minor children. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/02\/13\/pregnant-tx-teen-sues-parents-to-prevent-them-from-forcing-her-to-abort-baby\/\">The case of abortion<\/a>, however, adds a additional life to the equation and makes it more difficult.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A pregnant teenager in Houston, Texas, is suing her parents, claiming that they are trying to coerce her to have an abortion. The 16-year-old, who is reportedly two months pregnant, is being represented by the Texas Center for Defense of Life (TCDL), a pro-life legal organization. For now, the girl and her unborn child are protected by a temporary restraining order, but the battle is far from over.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a poser: The Bible exhorts children to obey their parents. The parents are telling the child to have a legal medical procedure. As the child, you want to obey your parents, and yet don&#8217;t want to abort your baby, both Biblically-based beliefs. There are times when we disobey the civil law to follow the moral law, but these are two moral laws. <\/p>\n<p>Tough decision, but I think I support the 16-year-old. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that, generally speaking, parents have both the right and responsibility to determine the health care of their minor children. The case of abortion, however, adds a additional life to the equation and makes it more difficult. A pregnant teenager in Houston, Texas, is suing her parents, claiming that they are trying to coerce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30,9,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-christianity","category-doug","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}