bill requiring girls to notify parents before an abortion by
             Mark Silva; Tribune News Service April 1999
             Statistics show that in the United States abortion is committed by many teenage
             mothers. A bill was passed requiring a teenage girl to notify her parents
             before having an abortion. The problem the bill faces is that there is a
             Privacy Amendment in the Constitution that broadly protects women's rights to
             choose abortion. Sponsors of the bill argue the fact that in any other surgical
             procedure, other than an emergency, doctors are required to notify the parents
             before they do surgery. However, in many economically and education deprived
             sections of the US, many teenagers are living in potentially violent families-
             or a father who might even be responsible for his daughter's pregnancy. In a
             case like that, the father may be so enraged about a daughter's decision to have
             an abortion he may physically and sexually assault the teenager and thus
             psychologically damaging the teen for life.
             For some teens, abortion as a means of coping can become a stressor-Anne
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