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I completely agree with Sam Harris.And here's why:There's a lot at stake.Mainly, the minds of future generations.Please devote 3 minutes for a short excerpt from the 1960 movie "Inherit the Wind", depicting the Scopes Trial ("Scopes Monkey Trial") in which Tennessee school teacher John Scopes was accused of teaching human evolution in class (Illegal there at the time)Listen to the wonderful Spencer Tracy, depicting the defense attorney in this scene:Challenged to say if he considers anything holy, he answers:"Yes. The individual human mind.In a child's power to master the multiplication table, there is more sanctity than in all your shouted "amens" and "holy holies" and "hosannas."An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters."The place I position my line of defense is education and access to science.To explain why I'm concerned about both, here are some U.S Focused stats, but that apply globally:40 percent of Americans reject evolution.roughly 46 percent of Americans think the Earth is less than 10,000 years old.about 20 percent believe it’s the sun that does the orbiting around earth... (Reminder: The Galileo trial took place almost 400 years ago).The american public is polarized on climate change and effectiveness and importance of vaccination.Less than 20 percent of Americans have ever met a scientist. Many more meet a priest on a weekly basis.(Look up Unscientific America for the above data and more)If the above hasn't convinced you that the creationists and religious preachers teaching folly are endangering progress, here's Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, discussing what happens to a scientific superpower, when it gives up on scientific progress for the sake of religion - There is no need to guess, it has happened before:There is reason for concern.There is a war over the mind of future generations, and science has to show up to the battlefield - That means leaving the lab every-now and then and filming an episode of Cosmos.Side note:I absolutely love COSMOS.It makes science cool, clear, accessible and relevant to those who otherwise would never have a way of catching up with its development.It brings science out of the lab and into the living room, Sagan and DeGrasse Tyson style.I argue it will eventually turn out to be more important than even its producers imagined - this is part of the struggle against ignorance.This is why Bill Nye, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku and Carl Sagan before them, decided to make an effort to make science accessible.Hack, part of my - redundant and insignificant as it may be - activity on Quora - is meant to harness Atheists to proliferate and become excited with scientific knowledge.We - Atheists & Scientists - need to win this one.(Know what - the RELIGIOUS need us to win this one, for the future of THEIR children!)Speking of DeGrasse Tyson, I added a few videos of him explaining why Creationism and "Intelligent Design" must be prevented from entering our schools - Noam Kaiser's answer to Creationism: Why are public schools allowed to teach Darwinism?THIS is my interpretation of Sam Harris's "conversational intolerance", and my main point: The future generations.There is a good reason to stay vigilant, and not let our guard down.The statistics above show a frightening picture of the present.What about our future?Look:​​These young minds have just been kidnapped by Ken Ham's monumentally idiotic "Answers in Genesis" Museum (And I use the term "Museum" VERY loosely....) into "learning" that humans and dinosaurs dwelled happily together, frolicking in the fields near the bayou...And it gets worst still:Listen to this "charming" and "innocent" lady, trying to shove back 3,000 year old lies and folly back into the classroom and young children minds, regardless of the centuries it took humanity to rid itself from their dark dominance, regardless of the rivers of blood spilled and people burnt on the stake fighting to be free from them - and does it "in the name of scientific openness"...no less...Here is another example of a smiling advocate of "Creationism", pointing out "Gaps" (which only exist in her knowledge) and "Controversy" (which doesn't exist...).Noam Kaiser's answer to What are the fallacies (if any) behind Wendy Wright's reasoning in her debate with Richard Dawkins?This ignorant kind smile is the new danger.The inquisition retired the scary red hood and torture room, and replaced them with a PR office.Sure - we need to try and follow in Carl Sagan's path of getting our children excited about research, science, knowledge, discovery.But alongside the positive approach, we have to be willing to meet ignorance in the dark alleys, and gear up for a street fight.The scriptures are NOT science book, they contain NO science, and here's is a guy from the Vatican to explain that:Trying to teach scripture as science - is NOT science.Leave it out of the science class.I'll end with another scene from "Inherit the Wind", again Spencer Tracy, this time warning us all, on what might happen if we let our guard down: (Well worth the 2 and a half minutes)"Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!"Not if we can help it.The forces that hope to pull us all backwards are serious (even when they're smiling).I chose to show scenes from a 1960 movie, depicting a 1925 trial, to demonstrate ITS LESSONS ARE STILL RELEVANT IN 2014.I hope I have.Every freedom loving, curious, open minded and knowledge thirsty person needs to get serious as well: About protecting our future.Sam Harris is spot on.Oh, and before you go "bible ballistic" (If you are a person inclined to to do so),read this:Noam Kaiser's answer to What do atheists wish theists knew?Or don't, all the same to me.Basically, if you are a religious/theist person who keeps his/her god out of the science class, we have no issue with each other.

First the idiocy of the sponsor of the bill, state Senator Clyde Chambliss (R).The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Clyde Chambliss (R), acknowledged in his opening statement that he was not a doctor, nor was he entirely clear on when a woman can know she is pregnant.“I’m not trained medically so I don’t know the proper medical terminology and timelines,” Chambliss said. “But from what I’ve read, what I’ve been told, there’s some period of time before you can know a woman is pregnant.”The senator then used that claim to argue that “under the bill, a woman could end her pregnancy as long as she did not know she was pregnant”. The claim, which Chambliss repeated several times during the debate, left many viewers feeling confused.So I guess you can get an abortion before conception but once conception begins you cannot have an abortion. WOW! I guess women should schedule an abortion before having sex or getting raped just in case.Hypocrisy is alive and well in Alabama Government's lawmakersUpdate Wed., May 15, 2019: In a tweet, Gov. Kay Ivey said that she has signed HB 314. “Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act,” she wrote. “To the bill’s many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every life is precious & that every life is a sacred gift from God.”Now take a good look at Ivey's last two sentences.“Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act,” and "Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every life is precious & that every life is a sacred gift from God.”What about the rights of the women who die before, during and after childbirth due to complications? Where is their protection? What about the rights of children that are raped at an age that being forced to give birth, when their young bodies are not ready for birthing a baby, therefore puts the child in danger of dying?So she is saying that she signed, a bill written and passed in the states Senate have passed, the strictest Pro Life Bill in the nation all due to Alabamians deep belief in the fact that every life is precious and a sacred gift from God. But I guess that only applies to fetuses.How States Like Alabama Protect Rapists Over Women and GirlsHere is where the hypocrisy comes in. The next day this is in the news.Alabama man executed for 1997 quadruple killingMAY 16, 2019 / 10:41 PM / APA man condemned to die for his role in a quadruple killing that followed a dispute over a pickup truck was put to death Thursday evening in Alabama, declining to make any last-minute appeals in the hours preceding his execution.Tennessee man executed for 1984 murder of wife and Alabama man executed for 1997 quadruple killingAnd yet the Alabama Senate passed and the governor signed into law a bill that will deny women the right to choose abortion because Alabamians believe every life is precious and that every life is a sacred gift from God, but will execute a person for a crime.Alabama’s laws against rape and incestBut what has struck reproductive-rights advocates about HB 314 in particular is the seemingly punitive nature of the bill, as well as the inherent cruelty of forcing survivors of rape or incest to carry their fetuses to term, some of whom are likely very young women (according to the Rape and Incest National Network, women between the ages of 11 and 19 are four times more likely than the general population to be the victims of rape and sexual assault). And while anti-abortion legislators have been emboldened in recent years, there seems to be something particularly vindictive about the fact that doctors who perform the procedure would face up to 99 years in prison — a sentence that, as many reproductive-rights activists on Twitter have pointed out, far exceeds most of those for violent sexual offenders.Such legislation “shows where the state’s priorities are,” says Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel for If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice. “It sends an unfortunate message to people who have been raped, that the penalties for ending the pregnancy are stiffer from causing the pregnancy through rape in the first place. I think that sends a very clear message to Alabamians that the state really doesn’t care about their well-being, even though anti-abortion laws are couched in the supposed well-being of a pregnant person.”Alabama’s near-ban on abortion is now a law and performing an abortion would become a Class A felony, which carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison — the same minimum sentence as severe sex crimes like first-degree rape and sexual torture, under Alabama law.Incest and sexual abuse, however, are considered Class C felonies, with a minimum sentence of one year and one day in prison and a maximum sentence of 10 years. Second-degree rape usually applies to “what most people usually consider statutory rape,” explains Andrew Segel, a lawyer from Huntsville, Alabama, though it also applies if the victim is between the ages of 11 and 16 and the perpetrator is over the age of 16, and if the victim is “incapable of consent by reason of being mentally defective,” per the Alabama criminal code. In Alabama, second-degree rape is a Class B felony with a maximum sentence of 20 years.The implications of these sentencing guidelines are clear, and they are chilling: If HB 314 is enacted, a first-time offender who is accused of raping, say, an intellectually disabled woman or a 11-year-old girl could potentially serve less prison time than a doctor providing an abortion. And that’s assuming that they will serve any prison time to begin with. Compared to other victims of violent crimes, rape and sexual assault survivors are far less likely to report their assailants to the police, which leads to far fewer rape-related arrests and felony convictions; only a tiny fraction of those accused of sexual assault will ever spend a day in jail. In effect, if this law is enacted, performing a safe and constitutionally protected procedure that nearly one in four women will have in their lifetimes will be criminalized to a larger degree than sexually assaulting a 11-year-old girl.This bill is misnamed. It should be called The Forced Birth Bill. So I ask those that are Pro Life…If your wife is pregnant and the doctors say she is in imminent danger of losing her life by continuing the pregnancy, what would you choose? Save your wife or let her die with no guarantee that the baby will survive?If your 11 year old daughter was raped would you want her to be forced to continue a pregnancy that at her age would be dangerous because the law says abortions are illegal even in cases of rape and incest?IMHO, No one person, no federal, state or religious group has the right to tell women what they can or cannot do when it comes to their own bodies. You can make laws against abortion but they you will drive women back to the days of the wire coat hanger and back alleys abortions, risking death from hemorrhage or infections.Yeah, you are really protecting women’s lives…. in a pig’s eye.UPDATE: I came across this just now. Dated May 14, 2019An 11-year-old girl in Ohio was allegedly raped by a 26-year-old multiple times, leaving her pregnant, according to police reports. A state law passed in April, but not yet in effect, says that victims like her won't have a choice to have an abortion — they would have to carry and deliver their rapist's child.The law prohibits women from obtaining an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, about five or six weeks into a pregnancy, before most women even know that they're pregnant.The law provides no exceptions for rape or incest.In an email to CBS News, the Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost defended the statute. "Sometimes, the evolution of the law requires bold steps," Yost wrote. "In the last 46 years, the practice of medicine has changed. Science has changed. Even the point of viability has changed. Only the law has lagged behind."When signing the bill, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine focused on the rights of the fetus. "The essential function of government is to protect the most vulnerable among us, those who don't have a voice," he said. "Government's role should be to protect life from the beginning to the end."Though the 11-year-old in this case won't be subject to the state's pending law, thousands of other women in the future would be. More than 4,000 women were raped in Ohio in 2017, according to data compiled by the FBI. Of those, more than 800 victims were assaulted by a family member. In the future, if women became pregnant as a result of such crimes, Ohio's so-called "fetal heartbeat bill" would prohibit them from receiving an abortion any time after about six weeks, which is before most women even know they're pregnant.So the rights of the unborn are more important than the rights of a woman or girl.Since men do not get pregnant nor deliver a baby they have no understanding what a woman’s body goes through in the 9 months of carrying a baby to term, nor do they know the stress and strain of birthing a baby. Sometimes a birth is easy but many more times it is hours of stress and strain on a woman’s body. That is for adult women, but now imagine the stress and strain of carrying a baby for 9 months, then go through the stress and strain of delivery for an 11 year old body that isn’t ready for this. Just because an 11 year old female starts her menstruation at such a young age and gets pregnant doesn’t mean her body is ready to carry and birth a baby. So if Ohio’s law gets to stand, a child of rape or incest will be forced to undergo a pregnancy and delivery that could very well cost this child her life.

This is a complicated area of law, and depends greatly on State laws (if in the U.S.). I can’t speak of other countries.When you say “kid”, I assume you are referring to a person not of the age of majority (legal age of 18). The answer, then would be NO, a child cannot be named “attorney-in-fact” or “agent” for any purpose. In the U.S., in all States, in order to hold Power of Attorney for another, that person would have to be 18 or older. Furthermore, if a principle is already mentally incapacitated (i.e., dementia), they could not initiate a POA.There are very few States that would statutorily permit any agent to conduct personal “life-changing” actions on the part of or for the benefit (or detriment) of the principle issuing the POA. A POA is not a one-size-fits-all legal document. Different types of POA’s and the language within dictate what powers the POA grants to the attorney-in-fact.POA’s can be General, having few or no restrictions on the agent, Special or Limited, restricting what the agent is authorized to do on behalf of the principle, and Springing, which does not go into effect unless and until the principle is incapacitated. (Again, it varies by State laws.) In any case, POA’s are typically intended to grant the agent authority to conduct some “business” transaction(s) on behalf of the principle, not personal transactions (i.e, life-changing).In those States that lawfully permit the POA to grant the agent the authority to file divorce for the principle, (Tennessee, for example), a durable Power of Attorney would be required and the language would have to specifically grant that authority.This answer is not all-inclusive, as State laws vary.