Girl: I need EC! Clinic: Here you go. Girl: You violated my rights!

Court: NOPE.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia on Friday ruled unanimously that a city health clinic did not violate a 16-year-old girl's rights or those of her parents when it gave her emergency contraception without notifying her parents, the AP/Pennlive.com reports.

Yeah, no shit. What in the hell is wrong with these folks? Are they under the impression that there's some kind of parental consent law for birth control? Shouldn't their lawyer know that there isn't? I hope they saved the receipt.

"The parents are being removed from the equation, which doesn't bode well," lawyer Joseph Stanton, who represents the Anspachs, said, adding, "It's only one case, but the message is not a good one for the family."

This has been the law since at least 1977. Where has this guy been for the past 30 years??

Melissa could have made her parents a part of the equation at any time: before she had sex, after she had sex, before she went to the clinic, or before she took the pills. Nobody stopped her from calling her parents or forced her to go against her alleged beliefs.

And nobody stopped her parents from getting more involved in their daughter's life. It's not the whole world's job to force your kids to abide by your personal beliefs; that's your job as a parent. That's what parenting is.