Parental notification laws decrease the number of abortions in the states where they are enacted. pro-choice author Melody Rose gives the following statistics:
“The teen abortion decline coincides chronologically with the rise of parental notification and consent laws nationwide, which may have diminished the adolescent abortion rate.
She notes that between 1994 and 2000 the abortion rate of 15 to 17-year-olds decreased from 8.8 to 6.5. The rates of abortion for children under 15 decreased from 1.2 to .07.
Melody Rose “Safe, Legal and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States” (Washington DC: CQ Press, 2007) 35 to 36
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