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"HotelCharlieOne" |
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08 Mar 2006 04:45:45 PM |
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Oops, abortion law blowback |
From Reuters
Teen abortions reduced by Texas notification law
March 8, 2006 02:10:17 PM PST
Teen-age girls in Texas are having fewer abortions following
enforcement of a law that forces doctors to tell a parent if their
daughter wants to terminate her pregnancy, new research shows.
But the law has also increased the birth rate among older white teens
and forced some girls to delay the procedure, increasing its risk.
A study published in this week's edition of the New England Journal of
Medicine found that abortion rates in Texas have dropped 11 percent
among 15-year olds, 20 percent among 16-year olds, and 16 percent among
17-year olds since the law took effect in 2000.
The estimates have been adjusted for the fact that birth and abortion
rates among teens were already declining before the law took effect,
the researchers said.
The findings show that the law has probably succeeded in reducing
abortion rates among children, said the study leader, Theodore Joyce, a
professor at the City University of New York.
Texas law forbids girls who are less than 18 years old to have an
abortion until 48 hours after her physician has notified a parent that
he has agreed to end the pregnancy.
The study found that many girls who become pregnant close to their
eighteenth birthday put off the abortion until they turn 18 so they can
avoid the notification requirement. But the delay "just makes more
difficult, more expensive and potentially more risky," Joyce said.
UNABLE TO WAIT
The law also seemed responsible for a 10 percent increase in the
birthrate among 17-year-old white girls who became pregnant when they
were a bit further from their 18th birthday, so were unable to wait to
have an abortion.
"The downside may be that we're showing a relative increase in
birthrates among this older group of minors -- the 17-year-olds who are
17 years and 6 months when they conceive," he told Reuters. "No one
wants high abortion rates among minors, and no one wants teens carrying
to term a pregnancy they wouldn't have carried if there hadn't been the
law."
"The demonstrated decrease in abortion rates and increase in birth
rates suggest that Texas' parental notification law induced a rise in
unintended childbearing among this subgroup of older minors," the
researchers stated in the study.
They used data from Texas because the state is so large that it is
difficult for girls to travel to another state to avoid the law's
requirements.
The researchers also found some racial differences.
While the abortion rates fell for older minors who were white or
Hispanic, they did not for blacks. The Joyce team said earlier research
has shown that black girls are far more likely to inform their parents
that they were using birth control or seeking an abortion.
Thirty five of the 50 states in the U.S. currently enforce laws that
require a parent to be notified -- or to get a parent's consent --
after the child has sought an abortion.
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Common sense could have predicted this. Just because society makes it
difficult for teens to get an abortion does not mean teens will stop
having sex.
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The actions of the disgraceful Clinton and Bush administrations
make it possible for me to say without shame that I deeply regret
the day I put the uniform of my country. The freedoms that I was
willing to protect with my life are gone. The America of our founders
is dead. All we are waiting for now is rigor mortis.
HotelCharlieOne
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| User: "Rune B" |
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| Title: Re: Oops, abortion law blowback |
08 Mar 2006 05:30:13 PM |
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On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:45:45 GMT, HotelCharlieOne
<Hotel_Charliie_One@yahoo.com> wrote:
Teen abortions reduced by Texas notification law
More soldiers for future wars.
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WWJD! What Would Jack (Bauer) Do?
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| User: "AZ Nomad" |
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| Title: Re: Oops, abortion law blowback |
08 Mar 2006 05:29:25 PM |
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On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:30:13 +0100, Rune B <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote:
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:45:45 GMT, HotelCharlieOne
<Hotel_Charliie_One@yahoo.com> wrote:
Teen abortions reduced by Texas notification law
More soldiers for future wars.
and more neglicted children to fill the prisons
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WWJD! What Would Jack (Bauer) Do?
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| User: "Rune B" |
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| Title: Re: Oops, abortion law blowback |
09 Mar 2006 07:55:28 AM |
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On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:29:25 GMT, AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com>
wrote:
More soldiers for future wars.
and more neglicted children to fill the prisons
And prison industry!
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WWJD! What Would Jack (Bauer) Do?
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| User: "JohnN" |
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| Title: Re: Oops, abortion law blowback |
08 Mar 2006 04:55:12 PM |
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What a great opportunity for Christians. With more children carrying
the fetus to term there will be more babies for them to adopt.
JohnN
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Oops, abortion law blowback |
11 Mar 2006 06:29:29 PM |
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On 8 Mar 2006 14:55:12 -0800, "JohnN" <jnorris53@hotmail.com> wrote in
alt.atheism
What a great opportunity for Christians. With more children carrying
the fetus to term there will be more babies for them to adopt.
LMAO!!!!! Christians sneer; "Let'em starve!"
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Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a cornucopia of splinters.
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