QuestionHi.I'm doing a research paper on teen abortion and parental involvement laws. As part of my project I need to interview an expert on the subject or someone who would have a strong opinion about it. I was wondering if you could possibly help me out with this. There are some specific questions that I have made up that need to be answered.
1)Name and profession
2)How do your profession deals with the issue of parental laws in teen abortion? Explain how you are involved in this subject.
3)Are there any measure you'll like to be taken involving parental laws in teen abortion?
4)Are you for or against teen abortion? Why?
5)Do you think that parental laws are fair? Why or why not?
6)Would a teenager ever come to an decision faced with a choice of an abortion? Why or why not?
7)Do you have any other information about teen abortion and parental involvement laws that can help me with my research paper?
AnswerHi Paulette :)
As of right now, I don't work professionally in the field of reproductive rights (but I'm working my way there), so if you'd like me to find someone who does, just let me know! I hope my answers can help at least a little bit.
3)-Yes, I want all of these notification and consent laws abolished. It'll be better for teens.
4). I'm for it-I'm, pro choice, which really means that whatever decision you want with regards to your pregnancy, I want you to be able to make the choice that's best for you. If that means abortion, or adoption, or parenting, I support them 110%. Teens need to be able to make their own decisions, since it is their uterus and their future on the line.
5) I don't. If a teen doesn't want to tell her parents, either because of abuse, or any other reason, they're either faced with getting s judicial bypass, where they go before a judge and ask to get the procedure, which is extremely biased and disturbing to me-having to ASK to get a private procedure done?!-or terminating illegally, which puts their health at risk. Many teens will confide with their parents, but forcing young women by law to have a talk with her parents? Absurd.
6)Yes, it happens all the time. We have very poor quality sex education in this country (correct me if you're in not in the U.S.!), which gives teens only the option of abstinence, which is terribly unrealistic. Because they're not taught about contraception, many don't have the means to inquire or get it. Thus, unprotected sex happens, and so does unplanned pregnancy. Motherhood is a 3=24/7, lifelong job when it starts, and that should be a decision entered into only by those who choose it, not because they were forced to give up their body for almost a year as well as the rest of their life to a child they may not want.
7)http://www.teenwire.com/infocus/1998/if-19981201p065.php
Great site for info!
