Reply #19: What ever pill it was she's still dead. [View All]

[gimme a break]

There are just as many dangers for teens without parental notification as back alley abortions.

If there is no parental notification then there should be mandatory testing for HIV and STD's for anyone getting abortion, especially underage.

Teens who think they're invincible take more risks than grown women. It's not just abortion rights, it's the safety of our children at stake. There will always be young women who stuff babies in toilet and dumpsters. Even if there are baby Moses centers and abortion clinics. Some are just so desperate that no one ever find out they'll go to any lengths.

Of course, I could be a bit biased. My mother was a teen, unwed mother. I think she showed great courage in carrying me to term and giving me up for adoption. She could have gone to some shady place for an abortion. She could have run off to "relatives" to have me. She didn't. She faced it and took responsibility for me. I'm sure she had a really rough time of it. Especially when unwed pregnant women were looked down on, much more so than today. My parents apparently didn't want to get married. She wasn't capable of caring for me herself, so she gave me up to someone who could. In my mind she's the most courageous woman I never knew.

So we should do more to prevent teen pregnancies, I would like to see where we wouldn't have to weigh the issues of which option is the least dangerous, and then it would all be a mute point. We should teach more of why to postpone sex. Many teen girls have sex just so they can feel loved for a while. Surely we can help girls with self esteem issues. Surely we can teach more teens to wait until they are more prepared to handle the responsibility that comes with having sex. Abortions for teens is just treating a symptom not the illness.

And there will always be teens that have sex. We need to reduce that number. Meanwhile, women who have abortions need counseling and support. Where are these girls supposed to get that if parents are not involved? How are these girls going to get the help they need? How often can they sneak away without getting caught? Are they going to think they don't need counseling and suffer later?

And the ironic part, is "Roe" of Roe v Wade. Is trying to have the decision reversed.