Groups like Planned Parenthood fight laws that would require a teenage girl to notify her parents about her abortion. But one clinic worker discusses how the abortion process is hard for a teenager and says that she should have support. She does not come out and say that parental notification bills are good, but at least conveys that young teenagers should not have to deal with their abortions alone:
“I don’t want a 14-year-old coming to my clinic alone for an abortion and walking out alone after she has it. What kind of provider am I if I permit this?”
Quoted in Marion Faux. Crusaders: Voices from the Abortion Front (New York: Birch Lane, 1990) 262
As long as abortion remains legal for 34 year olds, forcing a teen to notify her parents strikes me as ‘snitching’. Why not give her the option to either notify her parents OR speak to a LCSW with doctor-patient confidentiality?