Unsafe
Sex With Parental Notification
The Journal
of the American Medical Association has shown that laws that would
require parents to be notified when teens seek birth control would
do little to curb underage sex and could cause a troubling number
of girls to engage in unsafe intercourse.
Parental-notification
proposals that would affect federally funded clinics have been
repeatedly introduced in Congress in the past few years. Local
laws are already in place in Texas, Utah and in McHenry County,
Ill.