Abortion Parental Consent Laws: Helpful or Harmful?
...wo choices since she is far too young to care for a child on her own. In the state of Minnesota abortion performed on a minor with out parental consent is illegal. What is this child, who is carrying a child, to do? Telling her parents would end her up in the hospital, asking another family member would not classify as a "legal guardian". This fourteen-year-old girl is forced to deliver this incested child against her will. Although parents are legally responsible for their children until the age of eighteen, girls who are under the age of eighteen should be allowed to abort an unborn child with out the consent of a parent or legal guardian. "The agony of a sixteen-year-old forced to tell her abusive father that she is pregnant, the terror of a fifteen-year-old abandoned by her parents for the crime of her saying she would like to have an abortion, the conflicted seventeen-year-old who cannot quite bring herself to talk to her busy mother about her condition--while her opportunity for a safe an legal abortion diminishes everyday" (...