In Studies in Family Planning Ruth Roemer states that “the serious health and social consequences of adolescent pregnancy call for the examination of the laws that affect adolescents’ access to contraception and abortion. The general law of any country relating to the availability, sale, or distribution and financing of contraceptives affects adolescents. Similarly, a country’s general law on abortion applies to adolescents faced with unwanted pregnancy and affects them accordingly.”1

Whatever the laws about abortion say in any given country have even more affect on teenagers. “Particularly legislation or court decisions concerning parental consent for contraception or abortion for a minor, has an important influence on the access that sexually active young pe

Basic to the woman’s movement and argument in favor of allowing abortion is a belief in the necessity for women to be “active, self-directed participants in their own lives. In health care, the central concern has been to transform woman from a passive, compliant patient into an equal, if not senior, partner in her own health maintenance and health car.”6 What this statement is saying is that the pro-abortionists belief in the quality of life and in the equality of women’s lives. This is something that they have accused the pro-lifers of ignoring. And many believe that pro-life groups are really against women becomes it is the woman and not the man who must suffer through the consequences for an unwanted pregnancy and child.

Sitting in her parents’ Louisville living room, she is the prototypical adolescent, lobbying her mother for permission to attend a rock concert, asking if she can have a pet dog and complaining that she is not allowed to do anything. The weight of her new responsibilities is just beginning to sink in. “Last night I couldn’t get any homework done, I just kept feeding him and feeding him. Whenever you lay him down, he wants to get picked up. “In retrospect she admits: “Babies are a big step. I should have thought more about it.”3

The argument, from both sides, also begins to take on medical and ethical issues. At what point is it that the fetus actually is a human being? According to some, it is at the point of conception. Others would believe that it is after a certain period of gestation, anywhere from one to six months. Still others believe that it is at the point where the fetus could survive on its own outside of the womb. But with modern technology, that point is becoming sooner. Premature infants’ survival rates are increasing each year. This argument is more and more difficult to define, and it really depends upon the beliefs of each individual, rather than upon the “facts.”

Because of such gen

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