Letters to the Editor
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In case of parental notification...
Ms. So easily dismisses the 30% of those girls who do not notify parents or guardians for fear of physical injury. And, she takes at face value a study that theorizes, not proves, but theorizes a link between fear having to tell your parents you're pregnant and oral sex. Aside from the error that oral sex is safe (only from pregnancy, not from STD's), the idea that one emotion conquers another, that fear will vanquish irrationality overrides her own reasoning that regarding sex, people's "hearts rule their heads."
By the way Ms. So, it's not the brain that turns on the sex drive.
Morality and a happy family cannot be legislated or regulated, but health care can. Those girls who have parents they can talk to, will, those who don't will find some way to terminate a pregnancy or worse, dispose of the child. Protecting minors and preserving the family is the straw boogeyman that appears at every attempt to insert reality into the abortion discussion.
I'm not clear what Ms. So and the pro-notification/anti-abortion clan is protecting. If it were babies or women or girls, they would best spend their time demanding accurate sex education, safe havens for girls and women who carry pregnancies to term and schools and health care and all those things that are truely pro-life.