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.

 

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