Study of 6 States Using Parental Notification-Little Drop Off In Abortions

[kpete]

Study of six states using parental notification laws finds little drop-off in teen abortions
RAW STORY
Published: March 5, 2006

A study of six states using parental notification laws finds little drop-off in teen abortions, according to a front page story scheduled for Monday's New York Times, RAW STORY has learned.

Excerpted from the forthcoming article written by Andrew Lehren and John Leland:

For all the passions they generate, laws that require minors to notify their parents or get permission to have abortions do not appear to have produced the dramatic drop in teenage abortion rates that some advocates hoped for, a New York Times analysis shows.

The analysis, which looked at six states that introduced parental involvement laws after 1995, and is believed to be the first study to include data from years after 1999, found instead a scattering of divergent trends.

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Study_of_six_states_using_parental_0305.html

[bluestateguy]

1. The anti-abortionists will be glad

Now they can turn around and say "see, it didn't work. We have to do more. Parental consent is next."

[marmar]

2. Just like abstinence pledges...

it doesn't work.