Abortion and putting parents on notice
Re “Little Notice, but a Lot of Emotion,” Oct. 3
As a high school teacher, I know that in many cases it’s good to allow young people to work out problems on their own. But deciding life or death for a child when faced with a crisis pregnancy is not something that should be handled without parental guidance. In California, a minor needs parental consent to get a flu shot, take an aspirin at school or get her ears pierced, and yet she can have an abortion without her parents knowing.
Proposition 73 is common sense. Thirty-four other states already have parental notification laws in place, and it’s California’s turn to step up to the plate.
KIM CROTHERS
La Mirada
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The reason teenage girls don’t want their parents to know they are having an abortion is the same reason they don’t want their parents to know they are having sex. If we make a law for them to notify their parents for having an abortion, we should also make a law for them to notify their parents for having sex.
JOANNA YAN
Los Alamitos
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