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The case for parental notification is absurd. Why would it be more appropriate to let a teenager go through pregnancy, delivery, and possibly motherhood, on her own than to let her have an outpatient medical procedure? A teenager does not need parental consent to get pregnant. In nearly all states a girl can get privacy-protected reproductive care without parental consent, and she can become an emancipated minor via the pregnancy. So if carrying pregnancy to term merits a girl the ability to make her own decision...so why exactly does making a mature, informed decision that having a baby she is unprepared to deal with is not in her best interests keep her a child?