Abortion's: Parental Consent
"In many areas of the U.S., youths who have not reached their 18th birthday have the right to seek medical and mental health treatment without their parent's or guardians knowledge or consent." (www.positive.org) Why does a fact like this carry so much controversy. Everyday a woman gets pregnant. When a woman gets pregnant, it can either be the happiest of times or a time when a huge cloud of confusion comes over her. If that woman decides that having a baby is not the right thing for her, do you think that it should be her decision and only her decision, no matter what age, if she would like to have the baby or not?
It was once said that "if a young woman has decided to become sexually active, then she should be allowed to decide whether to have an abortion and whether to choose to involve her parents in the decision about an abortion." (www.choice.org) You might be asking yourself, why the controversy with this topic? It is not just the......

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1. Abortion: Parental Consent
   

   Abortion: Parental Consent. Abortion's: Parental Consent "In many areas
   of the US, youths who have not reached their 18th birthday ... ...

2. Teenage Abortion And Consent Of The Parents.
   

   ... Only two states and the District of Columbia have laws affirming the right of young
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3. Consent In Abortion
   

   ... the abortion-related policy issues facing decision-makers in this country today,
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4. Position Paper
   

   ... Gordon, Sol. "Sol's Page." Humanist Sep./Oct. 1990: 41-42. Hager, Phillip. "Judge
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5. Planned Parenthood Vs. Caey (1992)
   

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