The New York Times yesterday decried the bill that passed the Senate the other day prohibiting people from taking minor girls across state lines for abortions without parental permission as "mean."

This is not a suprise. Better than 3/4ths of Americans support bills like this, but the Times editorial page is so far out in left field that I'd be surprised if they believe that parents have any say so in how their own children are raised.

What is downright scary is this story [via National Review Online] given during a hearing on a similar House bill.

If that story doesn't have you enraged, then I don't know what can get you angry. I hope that some lawyer successfully sued the boy's family out of house and home. Oh, and it would be a public service if we got this family's name -- they're definitely people that you want to avoid.

The story also raises a couple additional issues:

First, it is solid evidence for the contention that abortion-on-demand has not freed women from male subjugation, but instead heightened it -- at least with some women and some men. Now that there is an "easy way out," men can put enormous pressure on women to have abortions they would otherwise not have.

Second, it reinforces an idea that's been floated recently over on NR's "The Corner": The key to raising a daughter is making sure she doesn't marry a loser. (The corollary is that she shouldn't date a loser either.)