The following comes from a June 25 story on LifeNews.com.
Teen abortions in Minnesota have declined dramatically since the state enacted a law requiring parental notification before minors undergo abortions. Tomorrow is the 24th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Minnesota’s parental notification requirement.
The law (MN Statute 144.343), strongly supported by Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, was passed by the Legislature with large bipartisan majorities in 1981. It requires that both parents be notified at least 48 hours before an abortion is performed on a minor girl. The measure includes a judicial bypass procedure, which is required by the courts, and exceptions for rare cases.
Minnesota’s law was in place until 1986, when it was enjoined by a federal district court. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled on June 25, 1990, in the case of Hodgson v. Minnesota, upholding both the two-parent and 48-hour requirements. The law went back into effect that year….
The annual number of minor abortions in Minnesota peaked at 2,327 in 1980, the year before the parental notification law first went into effect. Teen abortions then began to steadily decline. Since 1989, the last full year before the Supreme Court ruling, abortions performed on minors have dropped 71.7 percent. In 2012 (the latest year for which data is available), minor abortions fell to 403, the lowest number on record (statistics for minors go back to 1975) and only 3.8 percent of all abortions….
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Praise God!
I’m happy to see this report, however, my mind explodes to think that there are laws that “prevent or allow” parents to parent their children (it’s a God given right). I understand that “some” parents shirk their God given duties and those children need to be protected–and certaintly from “well meaning” insane adults who want to kill babies in the womb–but as a post-abortion healing counselor, I know that many girls are forced by their parents to have abortions. Many report mommy holding their hand while the doctor dismembers the baby from the womb. Talk about insane! These young girls are thrice broken and hurt–by their BF, Their parents, and knowing that a baby was killed! These parents who put their daughters on the Pill expecting that that will solve the “baby issue”–wake up!–most girls get pregnant while on the Pill–teach abstinence and why it’s important–not just to prevent creating a baby out of wedlock–but because it is God’s plan for them! He has a better, more beautiful and sacred plan for them!