Letters to the Editor
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Abortion is different.
Other procedures? How many parents are going to irrationally scream at a child who is seeking to have an appendectomy. How many children are even going to seek most medical procedures without a parents' input?
That other medical procedures are accompanied by parental notification requirements is immaterial. If a pregnant teenager does not want to inform her parents she is seeking an abortion, she may have a good reason. And that reason may be that many parents are absolutely stupid when it comes to the early unplanned pregnancy of their children. When every parent in American truly comes to terms with a woman's right to choose, a parental notification law may perhaps be legitimately on the table. But until that day, no parental notification law should be enacted.