Letters to the Editor
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Surely you're kidding.
"I guess I'm a social conservative: I just don't think teenagers should be making decisions like this on their own, or that the government has the right to interfere with how families run themselves."
So to ensure that the government doesn't interfere with families ... you want the government to mandate that the government force family members to communicate in a different kind of way?
And while we're at it, no kidding we hope every minor who has an abortion has a "trusted family member or guardian" with her. Unfortunately, ensuring that minors in less than trusting, less than loving, or less than safe families have to tell their parents about this decision -- which could expose them to all kinds of things, including physical violence -- doesn't create trust. If a teenage girl isn't telling her parents that she has to have an abortion, forcing her to tell them is unlikely to engender trust.