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 Speckhard by many teens, abortion is used as a coping mechanism for adolescents who are not ready for parenthood. However, abortion for some teens can be the very thing that causes stress.
Over 20 percent of teens who have an abortion have posttraumatic responses, including depression. This is because a teen that becomes pregnant will form a strong attachment to the fetus. This causes many problems because it causes a grief reaction that is difficult to overcome. Teenagers who were traumatized by their abortion experience often say they felt forced to have an abortion and that the experience was tremendously filled with emotion. The posttraumatic response to an abortion is not dissimilar to any other traumatic event like a car accident or the witness of a death. The teenager will have flashbacks of feelings of attachment to the child and often return to the place of the abortion, and even deny that the abortion, and even deny that the abortion even took place. In many cases, some adolescents will resort to drug and alcohol to escape the flashbacks and be able to sleep. Also, many of the teenagers who do have an abortion many times come back pregnant again and have another abortion. Many girls fear punishment from g-d and the negative reaction to abortion may not be met with much comfort. My reactions and feelings the topic of teenage abortion is very controversial and there are many questions surrounding the moral and legal aspects of it.
Although I will be expressing my ideas and emotions on both sides, I will like to first give you my view on it. I believe that abortion is wrong. In only some cases, that I will get into later, I believe that abortion is ok. Adolescent Abortion in this article, the debate is whether or not parents should be notified in the case that a teenager wants to have an abortion . I believe that in many cases notifying the parents of their daughter's abortion is pointless. My thought is that if a teenagers is having sex before she is married and not using protection that there is a lack of communication between the teenager and her parents can happen if she does have unprotected sex. If that is not occurring between a parent and child then they are not good parents.
As I am a believe in pro-life and that pregnancies should not be aborted ,this is one of the only situations that I believe it is acceptable. If a daughter was to tell her father that she wanted to get an abortion and she was raped by him, obviously he would become abusive. Therefore, I do not think that in certain situations it should not be a law to inform parents of an abortion. In the situations that I think abortion should not be done is when a girl has sex and she willingly accepts it. I feel this way because when you have sex, you accept everything that comes with it. That includes bringing a new life into this world. Therefore, no one has the right to take the life of the pre born child. Many times teenagers make mistakes that they later regret. Even though many of them are not as extreme as getting pregnant, they still have to deal with the consequences of the mistake and learn to deal to them
