Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
1/19/15 The governor of Texas has just signed a measure intended to help protect pregnant teens from abuse and exploitation. According to LifeNews.com, the new law: … addresses the problematic issue of judge shopping — where abortion clinic attorneys seek out abortion-friendly judges who will rubber stamp teen abortions and rarely allow parents to know […]
From 2008: A police sergeant in California told the media that parental notification laws help protect teens and young girls who are victims of sexual abuse. Sgt. Tom Yarrington was speaking in support of Proposition 4, a ballot measure to require that abortion businesses inform the parents of a minor girl before an abortion is […]
The Food and Drug Administration has announced that it has approved the sale of the Plan B “morning after pill” (also known as “emergency contraception” or EC) for sale to teens as young as 15 without a prescription. The announcement is troubling on many levels. Jacqueline Harvey of Reproductive Research Audit documents the risks to […]
Mary Hamed at Americans United for Life reports on a tax-payer funded web site in Massachusetts that gives teens advice on how to get an abortion, including information on how to do so without telling their parents. From the article “When Maria Talks, Teens Should Not Listen”: How would you feel if you learned that […]
Are teens who abort better off than teens who carry an unplanned pregnancy to term? Not according to a study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. The study found that adolescent girls who abort unintended pregnancies are five times more likely to seek subsequent help for psychological and emotional problems compared to their […]