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Planned Parenthood: Not so much emphasis on the parent

June 2, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski Leave a Comment

Planned Parenthood tirelessly opposes every parental involvement law now in effect and works diligently to prevent new laws from passing.

In states like Pennsylvania, teens need parental consent to have a legal abortion. To get around involving their parents, teens may apply for a judicial bypass. Philadelphia lawyer, Barbara Bailey, has “shepherded more than a thousand teens through judicial bypass since the early 1990’s.” Watch the full video.

I don’t see teens who have good, healthy relationships with their parents coming for a bypass. They tell their parents.

In other words, this translates into more parents hearing about what’s going on in their teenage daughters’ lives. Where this type of parental involvement law doesn’t exist, any girl the least bit squeamish about telling her parents she is pregnant (thus admitting she is sexually active) can bypass that whole awkward conversation. That teen can march right into a Planned Parenthood clinic and have herself an abortion, go home and cry for 2 days, having now increased six fold her risk of attempting suicide. She’s also twice as likely as her peers to start abusing drugs or alcohol.

35 states have parental involvement laws. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 40 percent of teen abortions take place with no parental involvement. I’d be curious to know the stats. How many girls who have fair to excellent relationships with their parents offer up their intention to have an abortion when they are not legally required to do so? As a parent, wouldn’t you want to know?

Some argue parental involvement laws create more problems than they solve.

Really?

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: parent, parental consent, Parental involvement, parental notification, Planned Parenthood

They grow up so fast

April 7, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski Leave a Comment

A little bit of my dinner just came up. What are we to make of this?

A middle school in Portland, Maine is considering a proposal to provide birth control pills and patches to students as young as 11 years old…The contraceptives could be dispensed without the knowledge of parents…

I know little girls grow up so fast, but they don’t grow up this fast. All the 11-year-old girls I know still need help getting knots out of their shoelaces. They have bedtimes and, in reference to their age, they still say things like, “I’m eleven and a half.”

We do certainly sit down and speak with them about why [being sexually active] is not a good choice,” said Amanda Rowe, the school’s nurse coordinator. “But there are some who persist… and they need to be protected.”

I agree. These girls do need to be protected. And I don’t mean birth control pills.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Birth control, middle school, parental consent, sex ed, sex education

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