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Afterward, when their daughter was buried and their hearts broken, the Bells could see everything clearly. Until then, they had not thought about their teenager's getting pregnant or what they would do if she did. They did not know that there was any such thing as a parental-consent...
...days, and there she was told of the Indiana law. No one knows what happened between that moment and her death two months later. When the Bells went through Becky's purse after she died, they found telephone numbers of abortion clinics in Kentucky, which did not require parental consent. "Becky just happened to live in the wrong state," says her father...
...involvement are so-called wedge issues, a way for each side in the abortion debate to prove the unreasonableness of the other side. Even those who strongly favor a woman's right to choose find themselves troubled by the notion of a girl's right to choose, so parental consent or notification has been a comparatively easy sell: 33 states have passed such laws. By forcing the pro-choice movement to challenge this trend, the pro-life movement has been able to paint its opponents as antifamily, bent on weakening the bond between the generations, encouraging teenage promiscuity and fostering...
Because cases like Becky's and Pamela's are so difficult to sort out, they have become this year's combat zone. In the fight to win over the ambivalent majority of Americans, the pro-choice movement is on the wrong side of parental consent: 69% of adult Americans favor laws requiring a teenage girl to get her parents' permission before having an abortion, according to a TIME/ CNN survey. Similarly, pro-lifers lose support over rape and incest: 84% of those polled believe the Government should pay when a rape victim needs an abortion and cannot afford...
...years, the Corporation has never before appointed a formal committee to search for a University president, and it was unclear yesterday exactly what role the committee would play in the search process. The Corporation must make the final selection for president, but it must do so with the consent of the Board of Overseers...