More fuel for the abortion fire

[asterroc]

A study by Baruch College (CUNY) says that Texas parental notification laws have reduced the number of minors having abortions, however it increased the number of (riskier) second trimester abortions. The CNN/AP article doesn't say whether or how they controled for other factors such as increasing contraceptive use, nor whether the results are statistically significant (though one presumes they wouldn't've made the press release if it wasn't significant).

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[sammka.livejournal.com]

The study doesn't seem to have even looked at the rate of hospitalizations for apparent home-abortion attempts, or suicide.

I personally know at least two people who got abortions as minors and who, if that law had been in effect, would have definitely attempted illegal abortions so as not to let their parents know. One had been raped.