Word: consents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Weld initiative included lowering to 16 the age where parental consent would not be required for abortions. It also would allow abortions for girls under 16 if only one parent consented. The law now requires both parents to agree if both are living. Teenagers can appeal to courts if they cannot, or do not, want to seek parental consent...
Weld said lowering the age of consent and reducing the requirement to one parent recognizes the number of single-parent families and differing family relationships...
...Reducing the age of consent to 16, which makes the girl only a sophomore in high school, strips a parent of their rights as parents," she said...
House Minority Leader Peter Forman (R-Plymouth), who joined Weld at the news conference on the abortion rights legislation, later, through an aide, said he was opposed to the sections dealing with parental consent...
...want to do this kind of thing -- that they think it is fun to have group sex with an inebriated young woman. No one denies that she was drunk. The definition of rape in most states includes having sex with someone who is not in the position to give consent. But even if they thought she was somehow consenting to this, why do they think it is fun to slap her face with their penises...